Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India
Deccan AI concentrates its workforce in India to manage quality in a fast-growing but fragmented AI training market.
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A former Thiel fellow’s startup just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters
Brinc launched its newest 911 response drone this week, as the company seeks to expand its prominence in the public safety industry.
Amazon just bought a startup making kid-size humanoid robots
The acquisition of Fauna Robotics is the second robotics startup Amazon has purchased this month.
Emil Michael, now a senior Pentagon official, says he’ll never forgive Uber investors who ousted him and Kalanick
When asked whether he was still “salty” about about being shown the door at Uber, alongside co-founder Travis Kalanick, Michael didn’t equivocate. “I’ll never forget that, nor forgive,” he said.
Bengaluru food delivery startup Swish raises $38M, its third round in 18 months
Swish has more than doubled its valuation in a year as its full-stack, hyperlocal model positions ultra-fast food delivery as a high-frequency habit.
The SEC drops its four-year-old investigation into EV startup Faraday Future
After four years, and multiple subpoenas and depositions, the beleaguered startup has dodged yet another bullet.
Do you want to build a robot snowman?
On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we recapped CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote and debated what it means for Nvidia’s future.
It’s been 20 years since the first tweet
On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: “just setting up my twittr”.
Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns
Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text.
New court filing reveals Pentagon told Anthropic the two sides were nearly aligned — a week after Trump declared the relationship kaput
Anthropic submitted two sworn declarations to a California federal court late Friday afternoon, pushing back on the Pentagon’s assertion that the AI company poses an “unacceptable risk to national security” and arguing that the government’s case relies on technical misunderstandings and claims that were never actually raised during the months of negotiations.