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Roelof Botha joins SpaceX's board of directors
The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an "existing vacancy" on SpaceX's board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed Deductive AI for up to $85M
Deductive AI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.

How to turn off AI in your Google Docs
Here's what you need to do to get those pesky "write with Gemini" pop-ups to go away.

Kimi K2.7 Code Now Available on Serverless Inference with Leading Benchmark Price-Performance
CoreWeave Inference achieves the highest output speed for the newly-launched Kimi K2.7 Code and ranks in the most attractive price-performance quadrant.

OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO
OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same

General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation
The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal's dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.

The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it br

CoreWeave Trains DeepSeek-V3 Benchmark in Two Minutes
CoreWeave's MLPerf® Training v6.0 results set new records, demonstrating how customers can train frontier AI models faster, scale more efficiently, and get more value from every GPU deployed.

Prem seeks $100M Series A as export bans boost sovereign AI demand
Swiss artificial intelligence startup Prem SA is raising $100 million in Series A funding at a valuation of at least $500 million, Bloomberg reported today. The round is expected to close in the third quarter. Prem sells software for running AI models on a company's own infrastructure, not a cloud p

Dream raises $260M for its sovereign AI and cybersecurity tools
Dream Security Ltd., a developer of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity software for governments, today announced that it has raised $260 million in funding. Bicycle Capital and Group 11 jointly led the investment. They were joined by several other institutional backers including Bain Capital

AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round
Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the "inference gold rush" marches on.

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.

Agentic marketing AI startup Gradial grabs $65M in fresh funding
Seattle-based startup Gradial today revealed it has raised $65 million in a new round of funding to accelerate the development of its agentic artificial intelligence operating system for marketing. Today's Series C round was first reported by Axios and led by Insight Partners, bringing the startup's
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[AINews] GLM GPT? GLM-5.2 passes vibe check; Z.ai forecasts Open Fable by December
With GLM-5.2 passing everyone's vibe check, the open models story finally becomes a real frontier story.

The Professor of Outputmaxxing - Anjney Midha, AMP
We talk about how this legendary investor went from humble beginnings in Singapore to leading rounds in Anthropic, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, and Periodic Labs... and the AMP secret master plan!