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Anterior, a company that uses AI to expedite health insurance approval for medical procedures, has raised a $20 million Series A round at a $95 million post-money valuation led by…
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If death and taxes are inevitable, why are companies so prepared for taxes, but not for death? “I lost both of my parents in college, and it didn’t initially spark…
Google and Microsoft have made their developer conferences a showcase of their generative AI chops, and now all eyes are on next week’s Worldwide Developers Conference, which is expected to…
AI
Deal Dive: Human Native AI is building the marketplace for AI training licensing deals
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AI systems and large language models need to be trained on massive amounts of data to be accurate but they shouldn’t train on data that they don’t have the rights…
Before Wazer came along, “water jet cutting” and “affordable” didn’t belong in the same sentence. That changed in 2016, when the company launched the world’s first desktop water jet cutter,…
Former Autonomy chief executive Mike Lynch issued a statement Thursday following his acquittal of criminal charges, ending a 13-year legal battle with Hewlett-Packard that became one of Silicon Valley’s biggest…
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What Snowflake isn’t saying about its customer data breaches
As another Snowflake customer confirms a data breach, the cloud data company says its position “remains unchanged.”
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Startups
Rippling bans former employees who work at competitors like Deel and Workday from its tender offer stock sale
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Investor demand has been so strong for Rippling’s shares that it is letting former employees particpate in its tender offer. With one exception.
Space
NASA puts $10M down on Mars sample return proposals from Blue Origin, SpaceX and others
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It turns out the space industry has a lot of ideas on how to improve NASA’s $11 billion, 15-year plan to collect and return samples from Mars. Seven of these…
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In 2024, many Y Combinator startups only want tiny seed rounds — but there’s a catch
When Bowery Capital general partner Loren Straub started talking to a startup from the latest Y Combinator accelerator batch a few months ago, she thought it was strange that the company didn’t have a lead investor for the round it was raising. Even stranger, the founders didn’t seem to be…
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The keynote will be focused on Apple’s software offerings and the developers that power them, including the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS and watchOS.
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Startups
BlackRock has slashed the value of stake in Byju’s, once worth $22 billion, to zero
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HSBC and BlackRock estimate that the Indian edtech giant Byju’s, once valued at $22 billion, is now worth nothing.
Apple is set to board the runaway locomotive that is generative AI at next week’s World Wide Developer Conference. Reports thus far have pointed to a partnership with OpenAI that…
LinkedIn has confirmed it will no longer allow advertisers to target users based on data gleaned from their participation in LinkedIn Groups. The move comes more than three months after…
Founders: Need plans this weekend? What better way to spend your time than applying to this year’s Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt. With Monday’s deadline looming, this is a…
Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms…
The company is in the process of building a gigawatt-scale factory in Kentucky to produce its nickel-hydrogen batteries.
Startups
Robinhood’s crypto bet, AI-powered healthcare, and Fisker’s fall
7:05 AM PDT • June 7, 2024
As always, there was a lot happening in startup land this week, and the Equity team had so much fun breaking it down for you.…
