Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch heads to Meta
AI researcher Andrew Tulloch reportedly announced his departure to employees in a message on Friday.
Startups
Kalshi hits $5B valuation days after rival Polymarket gets $2B NYSE backing at $8 Billion
Prediction markets startup Klashi raised $300 million, while Polymarket nabbed up to $2 billion.
The world is just not quite ready for humanoids yet
Famed robotics Rodney Brooks recently sounded the alarm on the amount of money going into humanoid startups. He’s not the only skeptic.
Flipkart’s Super.money quietly partners with troubled Juspay as it expands its reach
Super.money, the fintech arm of Flipkart, is looking to raise a round of funding at a $1 billion valuation, after securing $50 million from Flipkart to date.
Andreessen Horowitz denies report of India office, calls it ‘fake news’
a16z’s Anish Acharya calls India office reports “entirely fake news!”
Duolingo says it will ‘never’ open a San Francisco office
“For us, Pittsburgh isn’t a ‘backup plan’ to the Bay Area,” the language learning app said.
This distributed data storage startup wants to take on Big Cloud
Tigris has raised $25 million to expand its growing network of localized data storage centers — the storage layer for decentralized computing infrastructure.
Knapsack picks up $10M to help bridge the gap between design and engineering teams
Knapsack creates a unified workspace that integrates design and coding tools to ensure design and engineering teams are on the same page.
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