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This Top VC Wants To Use Main Street America As An AI Lab

27.05.2025 3

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RankIng The World’s Top Venture Capitalists In 2025

27.05.2025 10

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Saudi’s New State AI Company Humain Headed Up By Aramco Digital CEO

12.05.2025 3

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Charlie Javice Faces Court Showdown Over Alleged $175 Million JP Morgan Fraud

10.02.2025 8

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AI Startup Raises One Of The Biggest Series A Rounds Ever For Middle Eastern Company

10.02.2025 4

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This AI Founder’s Audacious Plan To Buy Out His Own VCs

04.02.2025 3

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The EU Is Betting $56 Million On Open Source AI

03.02.2025 7

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Bolt’s $450 Million Raise Is Locked In Legal Battle. But This Investor Is Cashing Out

15.01.2025 8

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This AI Avatar Startup Raised $180 Million To Make Corporate Videos Less Boring

15.01.2025 10

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Meta Blindsided Fact Checkers With Plan To Cancel Program

Meta's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he would scrap a longstanding fact-checking program and replace it with X-style community notes from...

08.01.2025 70

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Payments Unicorn Checkout’s Revenue Drops After Cutting Ties With Binance

Checkout.com founder Guillaume Pousaz built his London-based startup to a $40 billion valuation thanks to deals with crypto exchanges like Binance....

03.01.2025 3

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Can A German Bus Startup Really Make Greyhound Suck Less?

I f you search Greyhound on Tripadvisor, the adjectives you’re most likely to encounter in the mass of 1 star reviews are “miserable,”...

02.01.2025 30

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Investors’ $20 Billion Bet On The ‘NeoClouds’ Driving The AI Arms Race

By Iain Martin , Forbes Staff W hen Vultr founder David Aninowsky started building his own data centers back in 2014, customers only cared about...

27.12.2024 2

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North Korean Hackers Posed As VCs To Steal $34 Million From Crypto Startup, FBI Says

North Korea’s Lazarus Group, infamous for the WannaCry attack, has shifted tactics, the FBI says. After stealing over $3 billion in crypto, its new...

17.12.2024 3

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Europe’s Top VC Bet Big On Berlin’s Once ‘Poor But Sexy’ Startup Scene

Alast-minute flight to Berlin, Germany, back in 2008 changed the course of Pawel Chudzinski’s career and set him on the track to become the top...

12.12.2024 6

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European AI Unicorn Pivots To Launch Fleet Of Killer Drones

W hen Helsing’s CEO and cofounder Torsten Reil took to the stage of a tech conference in a London church-turned-event space last September, his...

05.12.2024 3

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Google’s Training Its AI Overviews On TikTok. It’s Going As Well As You Would Expect

A satirical video from American gymnast Ian Gunther about "John Backflip" unintentionally exposed some of the design flaws in Google's AI-generated...

29.11.2024 10

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This Year’s Biggest Tech IPO Will Be In Dubai

Food and grocery delivery company Talabat's $10.2 billion listing on Dubai's stock exchange is set to become this year's largest tech initial...

27.11.2024 5

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Saudi Wants To Use Its Oil Billions To Become An AI Power Player

Saudi Arabia's $930 billion sovereign wealth fund made the pitch for the kingdom to become a major host of AI data centers at the kingdom's annual...

01.11.2024 10

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This Swedish Startup Raised $55 Million To Build An Army Of AI Agents

Joel Hellermark founded Swedish company Sana AI when he was only 19. Now the AI startup has raised $55 million at a $500 million valuation. Swedish...

30.10.2024 10

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He Sold His AI Company To AMD For $665 Million. Now He Wants To Supercharge AI Research In Europe

Silo AI's Peter Sarlin founded the Finnish AI research lab in 2017 and launched its first large language model, Poro, last year. Europe’s bid to...

29.10.2024 3

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This VC Built A Cybersecurity Unicorn Machine. Then Came His Conflict Of Interest Mess.

For years, security executives at some of America’s largest corporations — Freddie Mac, Kraft Heinz, Colgate-Palmolive and Fidelity, to name a few...

28.10.2024 10

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Hackers Have Uploaded Thousands Of Malicious Models To AI’s Biggest Online Repository

Security researchers Protect AI have found tens of thousands "malicious" models on Hugging Face, the Github for artificial intelligence. Hugging...

22.10.2024 3

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TikTok Sets Aside $1 Billion To Cover Future European Data Privacy Fines

Bytedance has faced a barrage of lawsuits and investigations from regulators around the world over TikTok’s addictive design, handling of user data...

11.10.2024 10

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Midas List Europe 2024: Submissions Are Now Open For The Definitive Ranking Of Europe’s Best Venture Capitalists

The AI boom has swept across Europe with a string of massive investment rounds catapulting a new crop of startups like Mistral, Helsing and...

09.10.2024 10

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Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund’s Big AI Bets Include Mistral And Databricks

Sanabil, the tech investment arm of Saudi's sovereign wealth fund, has become a key backer of both startups and VC funds with many traditional...

24.09.2024 4

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WeWork Founder Adam Neumann Brings ‘Conscious Community’ Real Estate Startup To Saudi Arabia

Adam Neumann’s real estate startup Flow has quietly opened its first properties in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. It’s the latest extension...

20.09.2024 6

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Restraining Orders And Dumbfounded Investors: Ryan Breslow’s $450 Million Bolt Round In Chaos

Bolt founder Ryan Breslow in the letter makes a pitch for investors to back the turnaround of the struggling one-click checkout provider. On Monday...

04.09.2024 3

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