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Featherless.ai, a serverless inference platform specializing in open-source AI, announced it closed $20 million in Series A funding on April 30. That date matters. The Featherless AI funding round arrives as enterprises worldwide are…
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With global data center electricity consumption set to more than double by 2030 to approximately 945 terawatt-hours — roughly equivalent to Japan's entire current annual electricity use — the world's demand for nuclear power has never felt…
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A process that typically takes a human engineer eight hours — such as structural calculations for a utility pole replacement project — can be completed by a Cloneable AI agent in under two minutes. That single stat captures the audacious…
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American Express acquires Hyper — an AI-focused expense management startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — as the company expands automation capabilities for commercial clients, with the announcement dropping on April 16, 2026. The Amex…
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Over 1.5 million developers rely on Anthropic's docs every month — and the platform answering their questions belongs to a startup most of them have never thought about. That startup is Mintlify. The story of how Claude Code uses Mintify…
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Runway launched a $10 million venture fund to invest in early-stage companies building across AI, media, and world simulation — and that's only half the story. Alongside it came the runway builders program, a startup initiative designed to…
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Chipmaker Intel has planned to invest another $15 million in SambaNova, a chip startup chaired by Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. That single fact carries a lot of weight. Subject to regulatory approval, the investment would increase Intel's…
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AMI Labs, the new venture co-founded by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation — and the decision by Yann LeCun to run AMI Labs as executive chairman rather than CEO…
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Granola's revenue grew by 250% in the quarter before the funding announcement — a data point that makes the rest of this story entirely predictable. On March 25, 2026, the company closed a $125 million Series C led by Danny Rimer at Index…
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Prescription renewals account for roughly 80% of all medication activity in the United States — yet most of those transactions still trap patients in a loop of phone tags, scheduling delays, and administrative friction that can stretch for…
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