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Inception emerges from stealth with a new type of AI model Mar 03, 2025

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Inception, a new Palo Alto-based company started by Stanford computer science professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed a novel AI model based on “diffusion” technology. Inception calls it a diffusion-based large language model, or a “DLM” for short.

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Europe’s Relay pulls in $35M Series A after applying Asia’s model to delivery Mar 03, 2025

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Being somewhat later than Europe in adopting the idea of parcel delivery, much of Asia built its delivery infrastructure around e-commerce, effectively ‘Uberising’ how deliveries worked down to the last mile.

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Bridgetown Research raises $19M to speed up due diligence with AI Feb 28, 2025

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Birdgetown Research has raised $19 million in a round co-led by Accel and Lightspeed to deploy AI agents for business decisions and M&A deals.

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Anagram takes a gamified approach to employee cybersecurity training Feb 28, 2025

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Despite employers requiring their employees to complete yearly cybersecurity training courses, human-driven cybersecurity breaches still happen. The problem could even get substantially worse as generative AI increases the scale and personalization of social engineering campaigns.

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Redalpine, Founders Fund back Magdrive’s electric thruster business Feb 27, 2025

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Perfect taps $23M to fix the flaws in recruitment with AI Feb 27, 2025

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“Agentic AI” is the concept of the moment. Developers big and small are rushing to build apps to leapfrog the heavy lifting needed to employ generative AI in specific contexts… and investors are rushing to fund the most interesting of these.

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Patlytics raises $14M for its patent analytics platform Feb 26, 2025

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For decades, patents have been a bone of contention in the technology world, seen by some as a way to protect intellectual property, but by critics as a blunt weapon against innovation.

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AI-coding startup Codeium in talks to raise at an almost $3B valuation, sources say Feb 26, 2025

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Arize AI hopes it has first-mover advantage in AI observability Feb 25, 2025

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The AI observability platform has raised $70 million in Series C funding.

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Solar crushed 2024, but emissions were up as industry used more natural gas Feb 25, 2025

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Solar and wind together now represent nearly a quarter of electricity demand and nearly 10% of all energy consumption in the U.S.

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