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Since Chinese AI company DeepSeek released an open version of its reasoning model R1 at the beginning of this week, many in the tech industry have been making grand pronouncements about what the company achieved, and what it means for the state of AI. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, for exampl

Stockholm startup Neko Health has made a big bet on consumers wanting to learn about their state of health and how to prevent things going wrong. Now investors are making a big bet on Neko.  The startup has raised a fresh $260 million in funding, a Series B that values Neko at $1.8 billion post-m

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was literally chuckling when talking to CNBC from Davos about the new rift in Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI. As part of OpenAI's plans to team up with SoftBank and Oracle on a $500 billion data center project called Stargate, Microsoft is no longer the exc

Leading AI developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are threading a delicate needle to sell software to the United States military: make the Pentagon more efficient, without letting their AI kill people. Today, their tools are not being used as weapons, but AI is giving the Department of Defense

AI might excel at certain tasks like coding or generating a podcast. But it struggles to pass a high-level history exam, a new paper has found. A team of researchers has created a new benchmark to test three top large language models (LLMs) — OpenAI's GPT-4, Meta's Llama, and Google'

Jeff Horing’s Insight Partners is to New York venture capital what Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia are to Silicon Valley. And it’s a status that has been cemented with Insight’s latest closing. As expected, Insight Partners announced Thursday that it closed another giant flagship

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday over an alleged securities violation relating to his acquisition of Twitter, now called X. The SEC claims Musk failed to disclose his 5% ownership stake of Twitter in a timely manner, violating federal securities l

Will Elon Musk post more than 400 tweets this week? More than 800? Estimate correctly and you could wind up with a nice chunk of cash if you were to back your opinion by buying “shares” on Polymarket.  The sometimes controversial Polymarket is one of the internet's “prediction marke

Executives and researchers leading Meta’s AI efforts obsessed over beating OpenAI’s GPT-4 model while developing Llama 3, according to internal messages unsealed by a court on Tuesday in one of the company’s ongoing AI copyright cases, Kadrey v. Meta. “Honestly… Our g

Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile apps. The service today runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that powers open source X alternative Mastodon, YouTube competitor PeerTube, and other decentralized social apps, now including Meta’s Threads and

Powerset, founded in late 2022, is an investment program with a simple hypothesis: What if the best investors aren't venture capitalists but other founders, scribbling off checks in between late night coding sessions and board meetings?  Every year, Powerset, founded by AngelList alum Jake Ze

North Korean-backed hackers stole at least $659 million through multiple cryptocurrency heists in 2024, while also deploying IT workers to infiltrate blockchain companies as insider threats, according to Japan, South Korea, and the United States in a rare joint statement (PDF) on Tuesday. The anno

Even before CES 2025 kicked off a few trends began to emerge — or more accurately, some gaps appeared.  All U.S. and some European automakers that have helped turn CES into an auto show were absent. Several Chinese automakers filled that void, notably Zeekr, the EV brand owned by China'

After more than two years — and nearly 100 episodes — as a host of technewss’s recently ended Found podcast, I have learned a lot about how founders approach building their startups. I’ve heard stories about everything from how founders know when it is the right time to expand fro