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North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment Jun 09, 2025

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Despite what some experts have characterized as an environment increasingly hostile to AI R&D, North America continues to receive the bulk of AI venture dollars, according to data from investment tracker PitchBook. Between February and May of this year, VCs poured $69.7 billion into North America-based AI and machine learning startups across 1,528 deals.

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Toma’s AI voice agents have taken off at car dealerships – and attracted funding from a16z Jun 06, 2025

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When Monik Pamecha co-founded AI voice startup Toma in early 2024, he hadn’t anticipated spending the summer months sweating in Bible Belt car dealerships. He and co-founder Anthony Krivonos were still focused on banking and healthcare customers when the dealers came knocking.

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Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models Jun 06, 2025

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Windsurf, the popular vibe coding startup that’s reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, said Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access to the highly popular AI models Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

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Colossal Labs will release the sounds of dire wolves howling ‘later this year’ Jun 05, 2025

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The company is working on a bio-acoustic project, which will map out the different types of dire wolf howls.

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Console raises $6.2M from Thrive to free IT teams from mundane tasks with AI Jun 05, 2025

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If you’ve ever been locked out of your work computer, you know the urgent need to reach IT support. Unfortunately, helpdesk staff are often busy assisting others, which can mean a significant delay before you regain access.

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Speedata, a chip startup competing with Nvidia, raises a $44M Series B Jun 04, 2025

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Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads, has raised a $44M Series B funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $114M.

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NAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’ Jun 04, 2025

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The NAACP is calling on local officials to halt operations at Colossus, the “supercomputer” facility operated by Elon Musk’s xAI in South Memphis. As reported in NBC News, leaders from the civil rights group sent a letter Thursday to the Shelby County Health Department and Memphis Light Gas and Water criticizing the organizations’ “lackadaisical approach."

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Left-leaning influencers embrace Bluesky without abandoning X Jun 03, 2025

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It’s no surprise that many big, left-leaning social media accounts have recently joined Bluesky — but a new analysis from the Pew Research Center attempts to quantify that shift. This comes as an update to Pew’s news influencer report released in November 2024, which did not include Bluesky in its numbers.

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Grocery platform Misfits Market acquires The Rounds to further its mission of reducing food waste Jun 03, 2025

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Misfits Market, the online platform that delivers imperfect groceries to help minimize waste, announced the acquisition of household restocking service The Rounds on Friday. As a result of the deal, Misfits Market plans to take on over 250 items from The Rounds’ inventory.

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Apple’s US App Store topped $400B in developer billings and sales in 2024 Jun 02, 2025

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Just ahead of its Worldwide Developers Conference next month, Apple on Thursday announced new figures related to the U.S. App Store’s financial success. The company says its U.S. App Store ecosystem has generated $406 billion in developer billings and sales

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