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Content aggregator Digg is making a comeback thanks to a partnership with rival and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.

Freed, a health-tech startup focused on AI scribing, announced a $30 million funding round on Wednesday, led by Sequoia Capital on Wednesday.

Microsoft’s $13bn investment in OpenAI has been cleared by the UK’s competition regulator, weeks after the artificial intelligence start-up struck a new partnership with SoftBank that reduces its ...

CoreWeave partner EcoDataCenter racks up half a billion dollars to build more sustainable buildings for AI  TechCrunch

Swap Raises $40 Million to Launch eCommerce Inventory Tool  PYMNTS.com

FinTech Funding Hits 8-Year Low as VCs Embrace AI  PYMNTS.com

Viam Raises $30 Million to Grow Data/AI Engineering Platform  PYMNTS.com

23andMe's special committee of independent directors on Monday rejected CEO Anne Wojcicki's proposal to take the distressed genetic testing company private.

Microsoft supplied CoreWeave with almost two-thirds of 2024 revenue, according to a prospectus for the cloud provider specializing in graphics processing units.

Anthropic’s valuation triples to $61.5bn in bumper AI funding round  Financial Times

Amazon-backed AI firm Anthropic valued at $61.5 billion after latest round  CNBC

Anthropic raises $3.5B to fuel its AI ambitions  TechCrunch

Tesla rises 2% as Morgan Stanley backs AI, robotics efforts with 'top pick' status  Reuters

The deal is also the latest in a string of private companies letting employees cash out shares and lowering the pressure on themselves to go public.

Guggenheim and Legendary billionaires create $40bn pot to make AI bets  Financial Times

AI startup Anthropic has raised $3.5 billion in a Series E at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

A T. Rowe Price Group Inc. stock fund manager beating 93% of his peers this year says his winning strategy is going light on crowded trades such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.

Adevinta ASA, the European online classified company backed by Blackstone Inc. and Permira, is nearing an agreement to sell its stake in Austrian digital marketplace Willhaben, according to people familiar with the matter.

China's Honor announces $10 billion investment in AI devices  Reuters

Honor is looking to expand outside of China and push into the higher-end part of the market where Apple and Samsung play.

SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son is planning to borrow $16 billion to invest in artificial intelligence, Reuters reports, citing The Information.The Japanese technology conglomerate is also considering an additional $8 billion loan in early 2026. These discussions come as SoftBank expands its AI investments, including a planned investment of

Indeed, IBM is getting busier with AI, buying DataStax and debuting new Granite AI models. On the cloud front, it also just closed its $6.4 billion HashiCorp acquisition. No wonder CEO Arvind Krishna ...

Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, hosts bots resembling real actors that state their age as under 18, engage in sexually charged conversations, offer “hot photos,” and in some instances describe age-of-consent laws as “arbitrary” and “meant to be broken.” When MIT Technology…

Accounting hasn’t fully embraced AI yet — Quanta just raised $4.7M to change that  TechCrunch

Stripe says AI startups are growing faster than SaaS ever did, and calling them wrappers ‘misses the point’  TechCrunch

YC grad Deepnight nabs $5.5M for AI night vision software that disrupts a multi-billion-dollar industry  TechCrunch

AppLovin Corp has found support from multiple Wall Street analysts who have called the short report related selloff a buying opportunity.

Stripe bounces back to $90bn-plus valuation after surge in AI demand  Financial Times

Unique, a Swiss AI platform for finance, raises $30M  TechCrunch

Microsoft has made an undisclosed equity investment in Veeam Software as part of an expanded partnership to develop artificial intelligence products, Reuters reports.Veeam's software specializes in helping customers recover data after cybersecurity incidents, ransomware attacks, or accidental data loss. Its core product supports immutable backups, preventing ransomware