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AI note-taking app Granola raises $43M at $250M valuation, launches collaborative features May 19, 2025

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AI-powered notetaking app Granola is raising $43 million in funding at a $250 million valuation. It is also launching a team sharing feature.

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Tensor9 helps vendors deploy their software into any environment using digital twins May 16, 2025

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Enterprises want access to new software and AI tools but can’t risk sending their sensitive data out to a third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. Tensor9 looks to help software companies land more enterprise customers by helping them deploy their software directly into a customer’s tech stack.

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Anthropic, Google score win by nabbing OpenAI-backed Harvey as a user May 16, 2025

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Popular legal AI tool Harvey will now be using leading foundation models from Anthropic and Google, moving beyond strictly using OpenAI’s, Harvey announced in a blog post on Tuesday. This is noteworthy because Harvey is one of the OpenAI Startup Fund’s most successful early-backed portfolio companies.

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Realta Fusion taps $36M in fresh funds for its fusion-in-a-bottle reactor May 15, 2025

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Realta hopes to build power plants cheaply enough to supply power as low as $40 per megawatt-hour.

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Improvements in ‘reasoning’ AI models may slow down soon, analysis finds May 15, 2025

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An analysis by Epoch AI, a nonprofit AI research institute, suggests the AI industry may not be able to eke massive performance gains out of reasoning AI models for much longer. As soon as within a year, progress from reasoning models could slow down, according to the report’s findings.

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AllTrails debuts $80/year membership that includes AI-powered smart routes May 14, 2025

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AllTrails, the hiking and biking companion that was named 2023’s iPhone App of the Year, is launching a new premium membership called “Peak” that includes an upgraded feature set. This $80-per-year subscription will introduce AI tools to build custom routes, real-time trail condition forecasts, trail traffic heatmaps, and a feature that lets you identify trees

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This American VC is betting on European defense tech; that’s still very unusual May 14, 2025

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VCs are known to move in herds, which is why Eric Slesinger stands out a bit. While most American investors chase AI startups or U.S.-based defense tech startups, the former CIA officer is hunting for defense tech deals in Europe.

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DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app May 13, 2025

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DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well).

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FBI and Dutch police seize and shut down botnet of hacked routers May 13, 2025

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U.S. authorities indicted three Russians and one Kazakhstan national for hacking and selling access to a botnet made of vulnerable internet-connected devices.

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Clay authorizes employee tender at a $1.5B valuation led by Sequoia May 12, 2025

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It took seven years of hard work for Kareem Amin, co-founder and CEO of sales automation startup Clay, to see the company’s product finally take off in 2022.

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