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Chapter, a Medicare startup with links to Vance, Thiel, and Ramaswamy, just raised a round at $1.5B valuation

Dec 13, 2024 · A-B. Abridge. HQ location: Pittsburgh Funding raised to date (per PitchBook): $464 million Examples of VC backers: Union Square Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, IVP What the startup does: Uses AI to ...

Mar 10, 2025 · In a grandmaster-level chess move, OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with the GPU-heavy cloud service provider CoreWeave, which Reuters originally reported and CoreWeave ...

Dec 30, 2024 · Molly Alter, partner, Northzone: I’m really excited about companies addressing the public sector. The fiscal environment for government contracting is flush; total federal agency contracts ...

Mar 13, 2025 · Amid geopolitical tensions and volatile markets, the question of Europe’s ability to weather the storms ahead, especially as President Trump seems intent on having his pound of tariffs from the ...

Jan 8, 2025 · The result won’t be a better world, but more of the same inequality. And if that’s AI’s legacy, it’ll be a deeply depressing one. News

13 hours ago · Chatbot Arena, the crowdsourced benchmarking project major AI labs rely on to test and market their AI models, is forming a company called Arena Intelligence Inc., reports Bloomberg.. In a blog ...

10 hours ago · OpenAI has launched a new API option, Flex processing, for cheaper, slower jobs that leverage its o3 and o4-mini reasoning AI models.

Apr 10, 2025 · A new study from Microsoft Research, Microsoft’s R&D division, reveals that models, including Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI’s o3-mini, fail to debug many issues in a software ...