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Bloomberg reports, citing sources, that DeepSeek raised about 100 billion yuan; CATL and Tencent were among the biggest contributors.
OpenAI's latest models will be offered through Google Cloud's Model Garden, alongside more than 200 models from Google, partners and open source.
Bloomberg describes investors buying into the same round at escalating valuations ("tranched, two-step rounds"), with AI startup Emulate as an example.
Simulithic (YC Fall 2026) runs AI users against an app on every device and browser.
Stockholm-based Legora announced a $550M Series E at an $8.8B post-money valuation.
Wiz and OpenAI disclosed critical PHP flaws found with AI; patches shipped the same day, and AWS analysts say one actor exploited the bugs four days before disclosure.
Blacksmith runs continuous-integration infrastructure for building and testing code; its $66M Series C, led by Sequoia, values it at $1B.
OpenAI on coordinating global responses as AI agents uncover vulnerabilities, with a site at patchtheplanet.org.
Recursive released Flint, a free coding model small enough for a laptop, which it says was built largely by its own AI research system.
Latent (YC Fall 2026) catches an AI product's wrong answers before customers see them.
Microsoft says China-linked hackers used AI penetration testing tool ARTEX to compromise ConnectWise as part of a campaign targeting hundreds of organizations — A Chinese state-aligned hacking group used an AI-driven penetration testing tool to compromise IT services firm ConnectWise as part …
Bellevue-based Watchtower Labs, co-founded by a former Marine special-operations officer and two longtime Microsoft engineering leaders, builds AI and simulation software for military logistics planning.
Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.
Mach9 started in 2021 building surveying hardware and has pivoted to AI CAD software.
I've been thinking about where software development and SaaS might be heading over the next 5 years. I'm building software in Chile, and one thing I've noticed is that creating the product and finding people willing to pay for it are two completely different challenges.
Crunchbase News spoke with James Kim, partner at Reach Capital, about how Reach’s education roots inform its broader strategy, what it saw in AI detection company GPTZero, and why some of its best investments initially divided its own team.
The diffusion LLM that scaled 40x without slowing down
With its Q3 results, Meta announced non-voting Class C shares, effectively a two-for-one split, to fund AI, potential acquisitions and employee pay; trading begins in 2027.
Claude Mods is an early form of the Attention Interface. It flips the agent harness paradigm from the harness facing the machine, to the harness facing the human.
When I started, "a lesson on any topic, built just for you" sounded like a product. Now a competitor with a $16M round lets you generate courses for free, and every chat assistant will teach you anything if you ask. So I've stopped leading with that.
ChatGPT Ads is now in 26 more countries; OpenAI says over 100,000 advertisers have used it. A companion post explains how the ad stack keeps ads separate from answers.
Sydney-based Mary Technology connected its litigation tool to Harvey, so lawyers drafting in Harvey can use the facts and evidence their team built up in Mary.
Turn live speech into translated audio as people talk
