SimilarWeb data: This obscure AI startup grew 8,658% while OpenAI crawled at 9%

SimilarWeb data reveals dramatic AI market upheaval with Deepseek (8,658% growth) and Lovable (928% growth) dominating.

VentureBeat - 16h

Crunchbase’s AI can predict startup success with 95% accuracy—will it change investing?

Crunchbase pivots to AI-powered predictions engine with 95% accuracy for startup funding rounds, abandoning historical data in favor of predictive intelligence that forecasts acquisitions and ...

VentureBeat - Feb. 19

Robot Startup Figure Reveals an AI Breakthrough Called Helix

The company also released a video showing two humanoid robots putting away groceries. It’s worth watching.

Inc. - Feb. 20

Musubi, AI content moderation startup, raises $5 million in seed funding

Musubi, a startup that uses AI to moderate online content, raised $5 million in a seed round.

CNBC - Feb. 21

Can AI Startups Dethrone Google Chrome in the Web Browser Wars?

Google Chrome has been the dominant web browser for more than a decade. But it will soon have competition from AI companies like OpenAI and Perplexity.

Inc. - 5d

Mira Murati’s Startup Launches, Poaching at Least 20 OpenAI Employees From Her Former Workplace

Two-thirds of the staff at Thinking Machines Lab came from OpenAI, where the founder was once chief technology officer.

Inc. - Feb. 20

This Founder Left OpenAI to Launch a Competitor. It Aims to Bring AI to the Masses

Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO, has taken the wraps off her new company, Thinking Machines Lab. Here’s what to know about its goals.

Inc. - Feb. 19

How to Write the Perfect AI Prompt, According to OpenAI President Greg Brockman

The best way to learn to use AI is to play with AI. An expert explains how to write great AI prompts to get you started.

Inc. - Feb. 25

OpenAI reveals GPT-4.5 amid flurry of new AI model releases

The San Francisco-based company said its latest product has fewer so-called ‘hallucinations’

Financial Times - 6d

Energy Department scientists participate in 'AI Jam' with OpenAI, Anthropic

Nearly 1,000 scientists from multiple U.S. National Laboratories gathered Friday to test artificial intelligence (AI) models from leading firms like OpenAI and Anthropic in an effort to harness the ...

The Hill - 5d

Voltron Data just partnered with Accenture to solve one of AI’s biggest headaches

Voltron Data partners with Accenture to revolutionize enterprise data processing with GPU-powered analytics engine Theseus, promising up to 100x performance gains for AI-driven companies facing ...

VentureBeat - Feb. 20

China taps tech talent to boost AI data centre boom

Beijing is pooling resources from the private and state sectors to accelerate adoption of the fast-developing technology

Financial Times - Feb. 22

Top tech companies turn to hydrogen and nuclear energy for AI data centers

Silicon Valley is looking at hydrogen and nuclear energy alternatives to meet the energy demands of the AI race.

CNBC - Feb. 24

Perplexity AI launching $50 million venture fund to back early-stage startups

Perplexity AI is getting ready to launch a $50 million fund focused on pre-seed and seed artificial intelligence startups in the U.S., CNBC has learned.

CNBC - Feb. 25

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet takes aim at OpenAI and DeepSeek in AI’s next big battle

Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI with groundbreaking 'thinking time' controls, challenging OpenAI and DeepSeek while reshaping enterprise AI with unified reasoning capabilities and new ...

VentureBeat - Feb. 24

OpenAI expands Deep Research access to Plus users, heating up AI agent wars with DeepSeek and Claude

OpenAI expands Deep Research AI agent to ChatGPT users, intensifying competition with DeepSeek and Anthropic.

VentureBeat - Feb. 25

Meta plans to release standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT

Meta's upcoming AI app advances CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plans to make his company the leader in AI by the end of the year, people familiar with the matter said.

CNBC - 6d

Less is more: How ‘chain of draft’ could cut AI costs by 90% while improving performance

Zoom researchers unveil "chain of draft," which cuts AI token usage by 92%, transforming the economics of language model deployment.

VentureBeat - 2d

We're buying the dip in an AI data center play still under pressure post-DeepSeek

We see this as an opportunity.

CNBC - Feb. 21

Semantic understanding, not just vectors: How Intuit’s data architecture powers agentic AI with measurable ROI

From automation to autonomy: How Intuit's 'done for you' agentic AI architecture drives concrete business outcomes.

VentureBeat - 6d

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Preview: Style and Substance

Tam and Lucy recently went hands on with Sandfall Interactive’s upcoming Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which is a love letter to JRPGs, Sekiro, and France.

GameSpot - 3d

How The Sims grew from a virtual construction game into a cultural phenomenon

As The Sims celebrates its 25th anniversary, its legacy is undeniable.

CBS News - Feb. 21

Trump’s Tariffs Are Causing Some Startups to Scrap Their IPOs

This was expected to be a big year for IPOs, but now some companies are rethinking plans to go public.

Inc. - Feb. 22

Hyundai Ioniq 9 2025 Review

Yes it shares the same underpinnings as the excellent EV9, but Hyundai’s stately new tech-laden flagship is refined enough to stand out.

Wired - 1d

The week's bestselling books, March 9

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 9, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.

Los Angeles Times - 1d

How a 30-Something Content Creator Grew a Backyard Gardening Business to More Than $50 Million

A community-driven content creator leveraged YouTube to grow his backyard business into a full-scale enterprise with big-box store ambitions.

Inc. - Feb. 20

How a Buzzy Sock Brand Stepped Into the Zeitgeist—and Grew 500 Percent With Cool-Kid Collabs

Partnerships with creators like Pete Davidson and Chloe Cherry have boosted Doublesoul’s business like nothing else.

Inc. - 2h

How to save the future of federal data

President Trump’s executive orders on diversity, climate, gender and perhaps more to come, could lead to major changes in how future data is collected and published.

The Hill - 6d

Apple’s diversity policies and OpenAI deal targeted by shareholders

iPhone-maker is rare holdout in Silicon Valley against conservative efforts to force rollback on DEI issues

Financial Times - Feb. 24

OpenAI Unveils GPT-4.5 for More ‘Natural Conversation’

The new technology, called GPT-4.5, signifies the end of an era for OpenAI.

The New York Times - 6d

UK competition watchdog drops Microsoft-OpenAI probe

Digital rights campaigners say it shows the regulator has given into Big Tech and been "defanged."

BBC News - 21h

Republicans consider major budget change to obscure deficit impact of extending Trump's tax cuts

WASHINGTON — Republicans are considering a far-reaching change to the budget process that would obscure the deficit impact of extending President Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax cuts in ...

NBC News - 6d

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Is Picking Up Where Lost Odyssey Left Off

Games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 don't get made anymore. And that's because games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 can't be made anymore. French developer Sandfall Interactive's influences ...

GameSpot - 3d

US may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring effect of Doge cuts

Howard Lutnick’s remarks echo Elon Musk, who says government spending doesn’t create value for US economy. US politics live – latest updates Howard Lutnick, the US commerce secretary, said on ...

The Guardian - 3d

The High-Profile Failures of Nikola and Humane Highlight a Danger for Startups

Both Nikola and Humane faced the unique set of challenges that come with being first to market.

Inc. - Feb. 23

Startup founders are turning to 'seed-strapping' in a difficult funding environment

Seed-strapping is the "Goldilocks version" of bootstrapping and venture capital, Josh Payne of OpenSky Ventures tells CNBC.

CNBC - Feb. 23

‘Homegrown’ Swedish battery startup admits importing vital components

Northvolt, which claims to run Europe’s first homegrown gigafactory, admits it depends on Chinese suppliers for cathode active material. The Swedish startup Northvolt has admitted that a vital ...

The Guardian - Feb. 26

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