Magnolia team, front row from left: Liz Tarullo, Kate Farley, Alice Allen-Redfern and Lama Sibai. Backrow: Phillip Procyk and Volker Einsfeld. (Magnolia Photo) When my ailing 86-year-old dad refused food…
RISC-V startup Ubitium says it’s working on a processor that can tackle any workload whether it’s made for CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, or FPGAs. Source
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 17, 2024. Sign…
Heading into 2024, Mike Packer, a partner at fintech-focused QED Investors, predicted we’d hit the bottom for funding to Latin American fintech startups during the year. While momentum wasn’t a…
On October 21, a new ticker opened to Nasdaq traders: NBIS, a truncation of Nebius, a fledgling player in the AI cloud infrastructure space. Casual observers could be forgiven for…
Founder Ahmad Shadid has defended his and the company’s actions, but sources say O.XYZ's capabilities have been widely misrepresented. Source
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI, which now includes Microsoft, and assess the complexities of the OpenAI-Microsoft partnership, as illustrated by early email…
Mexico’s economic development — turbocharged by the amount of nearshoring in recent years — has made it fertile ground for startups. But the trend is under threat if President-elect Donald…
In less than a week aviation startup Pivotal trained me to fly one of its electric flying vehicles. Source
Sequoia says no exits, no problem. The Silicon Valley titan of venture marked up the value of its 2020 Sequoia Capital U.S. Venture XVII fund by 24.6% in June, at…
Michael Gilroy, a former head of fintech investments at Coatue, and Gokul Rajaram, a longtime tech executive and prolific angel investor, are forming a yet-to-be-named venture firm and plan to…
AllFake After duping the Los Angeles school system into giving her gobs of money, the founder of an AI ed tech firm allegedly spent a lot of it on herself.…
An analysis of all nearly 5,000 companies YC has backed to date reveals a surprising truth: YC startups don’t have to be unique. Far from it. © 2024 TechCrunch. All…
The New York-based startup has integrated its Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) with Anthropic's Claude AI to create a more responsive and humanlike chatbot. Source
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. If you’d like to receive this newsletter in your inbox every Friday, sign up here! The week before Thanksgiving…
On Friday, Anthropic announced that Amazon has increased its investment in the AI startup by $4 billion, bringing its total stake to $8 billion while maintaining its minority investor position.…
MatX, a startup designing chips that support large language models, has raised a Series A of approximately $80 million, three sources say, less than a year after raising its $25…
New Shepard’s booster lands at Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in Texas. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent six more people to the edge of…
It would be easy to be cynical about a German-French startup named The Exploration Company, which aims to build an increasingly sophisticated lineup of spaceships that could one day launch…
The AI race is taking a detour as developers consider a new path to super-intelligent systems: test-time compute. Not sure what that means? Don’t worry, the Equity pod team breaks…