AI coding startup Cursor is in discussions with investors to raise a funding round that could value the startup at $50 billion, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The discussions are preliminary and may not result in a funding deal, the report said. Cursor last raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 ...
Anthropic is in talks with a consortium of private equity firms including Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman about forming an AI-focused joint venture to sell the Claude maker’s technology to companies funded by the investment firms, The Information reported on Wednesday. The proposed joint ...
Anthropic is in talks with a consortium of private equity firms including Blackstone and Hellman...
If you’re in need of a billion or two in cash, why not hit up Jensen Huang? The Nvidia CEO has plenty of money to spare, particularly if you’re in business with him in some way. Nvidia’s announcement on Wednesday that it was putting $2 billion into Nebius, a European AI data center developer, was the fourth investment in a business partner Nvidia has announced this month. Earlier this week the...
Atlassian, which sells software that lets developers and other business teams collaborate on projects, is laying off around 1,600 employees, or around 10% of its staff, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes announced in a blog post. Few companies have been harder hit by investors’ fears over the ...
AI customer service software provider Zendesk is acquiring Forethought, a nine-year-old startup that is one of its industry partners and competitors, for an undisclosed sum. The deal shows how larger firms are snapping up smaller rivals that develop AI agents that can perform multi-step tasks ...
Binance.US, the American crypto platform founded and majority owned by Changpeng Zhao, said it has hired Stephen Gregory as its new chief executive officer, as it doubles down on the U.S. market. The move is a signal that Binance.US plans to expand after resolving regulatory and banking troubles ...
Google has completed its $32 billion acquisition of the cybersecurity startup Wiz, the companies announced on Wednesday. Wiz will become part of Google Cloud, but Wiz customers can continue to use different cloud providers. The deal, Google’s largest-ever acquisition, was announced almost a year ...
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr attacked Amazon in a Wednesday social media post after the company petitioned against a request by SpaceX for permission to launch one million satellites into space to create an orbital data center constellation. While it’s common practice in ...
Tesla and xAI are working together on a joint artificial intelligence project, Elon Musk said Wednesday. The move, which comes after turnover at xAI, is the latest shift in Musk’s plan to build AI designed to replace white collar workers. In a X post, Musk said “Macrohard or Digital Optimus is a ...