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New York: Billionaire Elon Musk says his xAI artificial intelligence startup has acquired the X platform at a valuation of US$33bil , marking a surprise twist for the social network formerly known as Twitter.
OSLO (Reuters) -A test rocket aimed at kickstarting satellite launches from Europe fell to the ground and exploded 40 seconds after takeoff from a Norwegian space port on Sunday, in what German startup Isar Aerospace had described as an initial test.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two former Meta artificial intelligence executives have raised $15 million for Yutori, a startup that will develop AI personal assistants, the company said on Thursday.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Quantum computing startup PsiQuantum is raising at least $750 million at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, according to two people familiar with the matter.
(Reuters) - Kyle Vogt, former CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, has raised $150 million in a new funding round led by Greenoaks for his robotics startup The Bot Company, valuing the firm launched less than a year ago at $2 billion, sources told Reuters.
Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity on Friday expressed its interest in buying TikTok, which faces a deadline to divest from its Chinese owner or be banned in the United States.
Last summer, investors persuaded the founders of cyber startup Wiz to turn down Google's US$23bil takeover offer. They feared the US government would block the deal and argued that Wiz was better off as an independent company.
KUALA LUMPUR: GXBank Bhd and Grab Malaysia have shortlisted eight startup companies to participate in a six-month-long TeXnovasi Accelerator Programme, aimed at driving innovation within Malaysia's fintech ecosystem.
(Reuters) -Google-parent Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for around $30 billion, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday, potentially marking the tech giant's largest deal to date.
(Reuters) - OpenAI launched new tools for developers on Tuesday that will help them build advanced AI agents, using a few application programming interfaces (APIs), amid growing competition from Chinese AI startups.
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is in final talks to acquire AdHawk Microsystems Inc., a maker of eye-tracking technology, part of a renewed push into headsets and smart glasses.
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating Scale AI, a data labeling startup backed by tech giants Nvidia, Amazon and Meta, for its compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, the California-based firm said on Thursday.
(Reuters) - Avride has partnered with Hyundai Motor Co to expand its fleet of robotaxis, and signed a deal with the South Korean automaker to jointly develop and operate self-driving vehicles, the companies said on Wednesday.
Hangzhou-based DeepSeek has dominated the spotlight in China's AI arena at the expense of local peers such as Moonshot and MiniMax.
(Reuters) -Defense technology startup Epirus has raised $250 million in a Series D funding round, as it looks to scale up production of its anti-drone weapons, the company said on Wednesday.
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.
(Reuters) - Artificial Intelligence startup Bridgetown Research said on Wednesday it had raised $19 million in a funding round led by venture capital firms Lightspeed Venture Partners and Accel, with participation from a leading research university.
(Reuters) - Former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati launched an AI startup called Thinking Machines Lab on Tuesday, with a team of about 30 leading researchers and engineers from competitors including OpenAI, Meta and Mistral.
BENGALURU (Reuters) - The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) on Wednesday launched a 5 billion rupee ($57.58 million) fund to help early-stage space technologies go commercial and reduce reliance on imports as the country seeks to boost its market share in the global space industry.
Engineer turned social entrepreneur Sabri Cheriha hunches over a washing machine at a small depot in a suburb of Tunisia's capital, the unassuming home of a startup he launched to tackle the country's mounting electronic waste problem.
