Ingrid Lunden
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LinkedIn goes big on new AI tools for learning, recruitment, marketing and sales, powered by OpenAI
LinkedIn — the Microsoft-owned social platform for those networking for work or recruitment — is now 21 years old, an aeon in the world of technology. To stay current with what the working
Unitary AI picks up $15M for its multimodal approach to video content moderation
Content moderation continues to be a contentious topic in the world of online media. New regulations and public concern are likely to keep it as a priority for many years to come. But weaponized AI an
SBF, riding high on FTX, wanted to buy off Trump to cancel a presidential re-run
Come Tuesday, our eyes will be trained on the Manhattan Federal Court for the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced cryptocurrency entrepreneur accused of orchestrating “one of the biggest finan
AlphaSense, an AI-based market intel firm, snaps up $150M at a $2.5B valuation
Market intelligence — where organizations gather information about industries, other businesses, trends and more in order to use that data to help make business decisions — has become a hu
Meta filmed Mr Beast, Paris Hilton and 26 more to build celebrity AIs based on Llama 2
Actors are in the middle of a major, protracted battle with Hollywood over what role AI will be playing in the future of entertainment, and how they’ll be compensated for that when those AIs are
Sources: Palo Alto Networks in advanced talks to buy Talon and Dig in a $1B security sweep
Palo Alto Networks’ stock price has been on the rise on the back of strong earnings and growing demand for cybersecurity services, and now the company is using that momentum to do a little shopp
Corti, an AI ‘co-pilot’ for healthcare clinicians, raises $60M
Artificial intelligence continues to be a major force in the world of healthcare, and in one of the latest developments, a Copenhagen startup called Corti has raised $60 million to expand its contribu
After relaunching as a studio for creators, LimeWire acquires BlueWillow, a Midjourney competitor
In the Wild West of generative AI, a new, unlikely cowboy is riding into town. LimeWire — once infamous for music piracy and incurring the wrath of the music industry before shutting down —
CrowdStrike confirms its Bionic.ai acquisition, sources say for $350M
Update: CrowdStrike has now officially confirmed the deal. As we previously reported, CrowdStrike will merge Bionic’s tech with its Falcon product. “The cloud is cybersecurity’s new batt
Darrow raises $35M for an AI that parses public documents for class action lawsuit potential
The U.S. is famous (or infamous) for its litigiousness: The country may not have the highest per capita amount of lawsuits (that’s Germany), but it has the most of any country overall amid a ver
Revel, the car subscription startup from Spain, raises $123M to take its business up a gear
The market for car sales has been on rocky ground in the last several years as consumers, facing tougher economic conditions, get presented with an ever-larger range of alternatives, from ride-hailing
SQream calls in $45M to expand its GPU-based big data analytics platform
Back in 2010, Israeli data analytics startup SQream made a bet on the potential of GPUs as a cornerstone of enabling the processing and querying of big datasets, an area that it believed would only gr
FloLive connects with $47M to give its IoT and localized cellular technology a boost
Carriers and enterprises that rely on cellular networks to connect workers, devices and machines are forever grappling with tricky unit economics: The promise of 5G was that these costs would come dow
Open Cosmos, a UK satellite startup focused on sustainability, raises $50M
Satellites have come into focus as a critical way — and sometimes the only way — to deliver communications and receive data about certain locations around the world, a power position that
Zopa, the UK neobank, hits 1M customers and raises another $93M
In 2021, U.K. neobank Zopa, which has been around since 2004, leapt to a $1 billion valuation on the back of a big investment from SoftBank and a plan to go public by 2022. Now it’s 2023, and Zo
ActiveFence snaps up Spectrum Labs, last valued at $137M, to help fight the harmful content creep
Misinformation, harassment, grooming and other illegal activity continue to be major issues in the worlds of content moderation and online safety, balancing big problems and illicit activity against e
Apple’s BIS acquisition is a bet on a classical music catalogue, and on building cred in the industry
More than 80% of the music we listen to today is delivered over streaming, according to figures from last year. But when you look at classical music, it’s been a stubborn hold-out, accounting fo
Intel and Tower ink major foundry deal, $300M investment after Intel cancels its $5.4B Tower acquisition
Two weeks after Intel said it would cancel its plan to acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion amidst pushback from regulators, the two companies intend to work together anyway. Intel today said
ThetaRay nabs $57M for AI tools to fight money laundering
Money laundering — the process of transferring assets around in order to disguise the illicit origin of the money — has been a huge and growing business for years, used by terrorists to fi
VanMoof makes a move: Lavoie acquires the e-bike startup out of bankruptcy for ‘tens of millions’ of euros
VanMoof, the flashy e-bike startup that skidded into bankruptcy this summer, has gotten back on its bike, so to speak. Today it was announced that Lavoie, which makes electric scooters, has acquired t