Startup associations call for Europe to unite behind AI development

Yahoo News - 7h

Enphase calls for better times ahead, but Europe is still a worry for solar-power company

Wall Street was keeping a close and cautious eye on Enphase’s outlook ahead of Tuesday’s numbers, due to competition in U.S. and continued softness in the EU.

MarketWatch - 12h

NFL Referees Association calls claims of alleged Chiefs favoritism 'insulting and preposterous'

Scott Green, the executive director of the NFL Referees Association, pushed pack on the Kansas City officiating conspiracies

CBS Sports - 17h

Microsoft poaches DeepMind staff behind AI podcasting feature

Rival companies in fierce battle for talent in race to build powerful artificial intelligence ‘agents’

Financial Times - 20h

Reid Hoffman enters 'wondrous and terrifying' world of health care with latest AI startup

LinkedIn founder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman has just launched drug discovery startup Manas AI, alongside Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, an oncologist.

CNBC - 3d

Voice AI Startup ElevenLabs Hit $3.3 Billion Valuation After Funding Round

ElevenLabs plans to use the funding to expand research into more expressive voice AI.

Inc. - 5d

OpenAI in talks to raise funding that would value AI startup at up to $340 billion

SoftBank would contribute as much as $25 billion to OpenAI's funding round and become the largest investor.

CNBC - 5d

DeepSeek Has Taught AI Startups a Lesson Automakers Learned Years Ago

In the DeepSeek AI saga, global technologists are relearning the lessons of the Chinese auto boom.

Wired - 6d

What will Washington do about Chinese startup DeepSeek and its AI chatbot?

As the TikTok ban hangs in the air, the US investigates the security implications of another mega-popular Chinese app. Who is behind DeepSeek and how did it achieve its AI ‘Sputnik moment’? ...

The Guardian - Jan. 28

Former OpenAI safety researcher brands pace of AI development ‘terrifying’

Steven Adler expresses concern industry taking ‘very risky gamble’ and raises doubts about future of humanity. A former safety researcher at OpenAI says he is “pretty terrified” about the pace of ...

The Guardian - Jan. 28

What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup shaking up tech stocks and spooking investors?

Chinese tech startup DeepSeek released a model of its AI service that seemingly is on-par with U.S.-based competitors like ChatGPT, but required far-less computing power.

NBC News - Jan. 28

Who is behind DeepSeek and how did it achieve its AI ‘Sputnik moment’?

Liang Wenfeng, who founded the firm just two years ago, says his aim is ‘not to lose money, nor to make huge profits’. James Vincent : DeepSeek panic reveals an AI world ready to blow Nils ...

The Guardian - Jan. 28

Trump calls China's DeepSeek AI a "wake-up call"

The sudden rise of a Chinese startup called DeepSeek sent U.S. tech stocks tumbling Monday. DeepSeek says it created an artificial intelligence model in much less time and for much less money than ...

CBS News - Jan. 28

Nvidia loses nearly $600 billion in market value after Chinese AI startup bursts onto scene

Shares of chipmaker Nvidia plunged Monday, for its worst day since the global market sell-off in March 2020 triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.

NBC News - Jan. 27

DeepSeek rattles Wall Street. What the Chinese startup means for Nvidia, Meta and the rest of our AI stocks

We explore DeepSeek's wide-ranging implications for our investment portfolio.

CNBC - Jan. 27

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek sends U.S. stocks tumbling

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek is sending shockwaves through Wall Street. CBS News MoneyWatch correspondent Kelly O'Grady has the details on that and the latest on TikTok.

CBS News - Jan. 27

Reid Hoffman Raises $24.6 Million for AI Cancer-Research Startup

The LinkedIn co-founder is starting Manas AI with “The Emperor of All Maladies” author Siddhartha Mukherjee.

The Wall Street Journal - Jan. 27

How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI

When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene.

Wired - Jan. 25

Y Combinator’s hottest startup, Origami Agents, secures $2M seed round to supercharge sales teams with AI

Y Combinator's fastest-growing startup Origami Agents raised $2M to build AI research tools that help sales teams find perfect customers.

VentureBeat - Jan. 24

‘They need a reset’: gloom in Davos as Trump boom leaves Europe behind

America First doctrine and threat of tariffs leave EU elite wondering how it can close economic gulf with US. In the bars, hotels and windowless conference halls of the World Economic Forum in ...

The Guardian - Jan. 24

Game Developers Fear AI Threats as Studios Push Initiatives

A new survey reveals how deeply AI technology has penetrated the video game business, and how many workers hate it.

Inc. - Jan. 23

Behind Trump's AI initiative worth billions

President Trump announced a private sector investment to build data centers in the United States that will support artificial intelligence. CBS MoneyWatch correspondent Kelly O'Grady reports.

CBS News - Jan. 22

AI-developed drug will be in trials by year-end, says Google’s Hassabis

Founder of Isomorphic Labs aims to develop a drug in oncology, cardiovascular or neurodegeneration areas

Financial Times - Jan. 21

Game Developers Are Getting Fed Up With Their Bosses’ AI Initiatives

A survey of video game developers released Tuesday indicates that a growing number of them fear artificial intelligence will have a negative impact on the industry as a whole.

Wired - Jan. 21

GDC survey reveals a rocky year of layoffs and AI skepticism for game developers

The 2025 GDC survey revealed the impact of industry-wide layoffs in 2024 where one of every 11 game developers lost a job.

VentureBeat - Jan. 21

Europe must 'wake up' and boost competitiveness — or risk falling behind in the Trump era, CEOs warn

European business chiefs warned Tuesday that the region risks falling behind its counterparts in the U.S. and Asia.

CNBC - Jan. 21

Microsoft AutoGen v0.4: A turning point toward more intelligent AI agents for enterprise developers

AutoGen represents Microsoft’s latest attempt to address the challenges of building multi-agent systems for enterprise applications. This article explores what this means for the state of agentic ...

VentureBeat - Jan. 18

Mira Murati’s AI Startup Makes First Hires, Including Former OpenAI Executive

It’s a major get for Murati’s mysterious startup, which has also poached engineers and researchers from a number of other prominent AI firms.

Wired - Jan. 17

Brooklyn trio raises $10 million for startup that wants to help open-source developers get paid

Out of the old Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, a trio of techies has raised $10 million for Merit Systems to focus on fixing an open-source problem.

CNBC - Jan. 16

The path forward for gen AI-powered code development in 2025

AI-powered code development has come a long way in recent years. Here's where it's headed as 2025 gets underway.

VentureBeat - Jan. 16

Hallucinations in AI: How GSK is addressing a critical problem in drug development

Hallucinations are a persistent problem in healthcare. Here's how GSK is using test-time compute scaling to improve its gen AI systems.

VentureBeat - Jan. 14

AWS and General Catalyst partner to speed up development of health-care AI tools

General Catalyst's portfolio companies, starting with Aidoc and Commure, will use AWS' services to build new artificial intelligence solutions.

CNBC - Jan. 13

Ryanair calls for limit of two alcoholic drinks at airports in Europe

Airline asks authorities to impose new curbs as it seeks to recover €15,000 in costs related to diverted flight. Ryanair wants a limit of two alcoholic drinks at airports, as the airline released ...

The Guardian - Jan. 13

Nvidia's tiny $3,000 computer for AI developers steals the show at CES

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was greeted as a rock star this week at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.

CNBC - Jan. 10

Who Is Hussain Sajwani, the Developer Behind Trump’s $20 Billion Data Center Pledge?

Hussain Sajwani, the founder and chairman of DAMAC Properties of Dubai, built the first Trump-branded golf course in the Middle East a decade ago.

The New York Times - Jan. 8

AI Startup Anthropic Plans to Raise $2 Billion at a $60 Billion Valuation

The new funding round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, sees the company at more than triple its 2024 valuation of $18 million.

Inc. - Jan. 8

Europe's biggest battery farm to be built on coal mine, developers say

Developers confirms £800m investment across two sites in Scotland to support the growth in renewables

BBC News - Jan. 8

AI Startup Anthropic Raising Funds Valuing It at $60 Billion

The Amazon-backed OpenAI rival was valued at $18 billion last year.

The Wall Street Journal - Jan. 7

British AI startup with government ties is developing tech for military drones

Exclusive: Concerns raised over role of Faculty AI, which has worked with NHS and government safety body. A company that has worked closely with the UK government on artificial intelligence safety, ...

The Guardian - Jan. 7

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