This week
DeepSeek reportedly raises $15bn from Tencent and CATL ahead of IPO
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The Next Web Higgsfield Secures Fresh Series B Capital From TCV and NVIDIA
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Unite.AI Anthropic S-1 Shows Red-Hot Growth, Risks and Massive Computing Costs
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The Wall Street Journal Disney Hired Bankrupt Character.ai Engineers, Not Its Characters
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Forbes US Moves to Bar China’s DeepSeek From Federal Agency Systems
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Bloomberg This month
Disney agreed to pay $60 million to 66 employees from an AI startup that filed for bankruptcy, weeks after tech layoffs
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Business Insider US venture deal value reaches record $515.8B as exits fail to keep pace
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SiliconANGLE Anthropic IPO prospectus reveals deep reliance on Amazon, Google for sales and compute
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ET AI (The Economic Times) Ex-DeepMind Researcher Thore Graepel Raising Funds for AI Reasoning Startup
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Bloomberg Radical Ventures Secures Over US$1B at First Close of Late-Stage AI Fund
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Unite.AI Intrepid Growth Partners closes a $525m AI fund with state money from four countries
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The Next Web Google just completed its $1.5 billion-plus talent deal for AI startup Mechanize
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Business Insider AI-Driven IPO Wave Set to Accompany Anthropic Listing
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Bloomberg Reid Hoffman joins Mosaic Ventures as an advisory partner
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The Next Web One-person startup: a Cornell postdoc wants to put AI in everyone's hands
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Hacker News The IPO Window Is Closing. Here Are 8 Startups To Watch.
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Crunchbase AI startup Cognition set to raise around US$1B at a US$47B value
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Hacker News Josh Kushner’s Fortune Tripled This Year Thanks To Stakes In OpenAI, SpaceX And More
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Forbes Anthropic Is Reportedly Being Upfront With Would-Be Investors About AI Backlash
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Covered by 2 sources Nvidia in $6 billion deal to create competitor to Chinese AI models — WSJ
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TASS English AI startup Micro1 wants to challenge Google's winning bid for Spirit Airlines data with a higher offer
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Business Insider Why Jeff Dean says he left Google after 27 years to build a 4-person AI startup
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Business Insider Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
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Covered by 2 sources Anthropic Is Reportedly Looking to Buy This Seemingly Un-Anthropic-Like Startup
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Covered by 2 sources Departing Google chief scientist Jeff Dean has been in talks for a $10 billion valuation for his new AI startup
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Business Insider China would not let Meta keep Manus. Users have until 24 August to save their work
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The Next Web Jeff Dean's hour-by-hour breakdown of his Google exit: an 'emotional' video chat, Yoga at 7, and 'unemployed' at 11:59
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Business Insider Former OpenAI executive Kevin Weil has sought a valuation of at least $750 million for his new AI science startup
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Business Insider Jeff Dean's new startup pitch deck slides are an insane flex
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Business Insider [AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???
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Latent.Space Five Underappreciated Truths About the AI Economy: Learnings From DVC’s State Of AI Report
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Unite.AI Khosla Ventures, first backer of OpenAI, is raising up to $5.5bn
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The Next Web Tingyu Su on why AI startups should treat the founding designer as a strategic hire from the start of company building
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The Next Web Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups
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TechCrunch Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility
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TechCrunch Lovable CEO says Europe’s AI startups have a confidence problem, not a talent problem
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The Next Web UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups
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The Next Web US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process
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The Next Web Inside Automat-it’s playbook for scaling AI startups on AWS
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The Next Web Anthropic Is Now Worth More Than OpenAI
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Gizmodo How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to kingmake AI startups
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TechCrunch Europe’s go-to-market accelerator for AI Startups launches
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The Next Web OpenAI alums have been quietly investing from a new, potentially $100M fund
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TechCrunch The Real Reason OpenAI Shut Sora Down Is a Warning to Every AI Startup
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Futurism Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early stage AI startups
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TechCrunch Recap: Europe’s top 10 funding rounds this week (9–15 March)
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The Next Web Even Tech Investors Are Getting Sick of All These AI Startups With Weak Ideas
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Futurism Why AI startups are selling the same equity at two different prices
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TechCrunch Cowboys, lassos, and nudity: AI startups turn to stunts for attention in a crowded market
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The Guardian That's everything we have on AI Startups right now