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Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Plans Departure to Launch World Models Startup

Thinking Machines Lab Seeks $50-60 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round

Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's AI Startup Parallel Raises $100 Million for Web Search Infrastructure

World Labs Launches Marble: Fei-Fei Li's Commercial 3D World Generation Model Enters the Market

Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Plans Departure to Launch World Models Startup

Turing Award winner and AI pioneer Yann LeCun is reportedly leaving Meta to start his own company focused on world models, marking a significant departure amid Meta's strategic AI overhaul and shift away from long-term research.

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Thinking Machines Lab Seeks $50-60 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines Lab is in early talks for a funding round that could quadruple its valuation to $50-60 billion, less than a year after launch. The company has already released its first product, Tinker, an API for model training and fine-tuning.

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Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's AI Startup Parallel Raises $100 Million for Web Search Infrastructure

World Labs Launches Marble: Fei-Fei Li's Commercial 3D World Generation Model Enters the Market

Former Google and Meta Executives Launch Majestic Labs with $100M to Revolutionize AI Server Architecture

Wonderful Secures $100M Series A to Scale Multilingual AI Customer Service Agents Globally

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15 Nov 2025

Leaked Documents Reveal OpenAI's Massive Compute Costs May Exceed Revenue

Leaked financial documents show OpenAI paid Microsoft $866 million in the first three quarters of 2025, while inference costs soared to $8.65 billion, raising questions about the company's profitability and the broader AI industry's financial sustainability.

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14 Nov 2025

Divine App Revives Vine's Six-Second Video Format with Anti-AI Stance

A new app called Divine, backed by Jack Dorsey, brings back Vine's six-second video format with over 170,000 archived videos. The platform emphasizes human-created content and uses AI detection tools to combat synthetic media.

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Thinking Machines Lab Seeks $50-60 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines Lab is in early talks for a funding round that could quadruple its valuation to $50-60 billion, less than a year after launch. The company has already released its first product, Tinker, an API for model training and fine-tuning.

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Chinese AI Startup Accesses 2,300 Banned Nvidia Blackwell GPUs Through Indonesian Cloud Loophole

A Shanghai-based AI startup successfully obtained access to restricted Nvidia Blackwell GPUs by renting compute power from an Indonesian telecommunications company, exploiting a legal loophole in U.S. export controls.

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Exowatt Raises $50M to Power AI Data Centers with Solar-Heated Rock Technology

Sam Altman-backed Exowatt secured $50 million in Series A extension funding to scale its solar-thermal energy technology that uses heated rocks to provide 24/7 power to AI data centers at potentially one cent per kilowatt-hour.

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Alembic Technologies Raises $145M to Build World's Fastest Private Supercomputer for Causal AI

San Francisco-based Alembic Technologies secured $145 million in Series B funding at a 13x valuation increase, investing heavily in an Nvidia NVL72 superPOD to power enterprise causal AI models that identify cause-and-effect relationships rather than correlations.

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13 Nov 2025

Cisco Acquires AI Startup NeuralFabric to Strengthen Enterprise Generative AI Capabilities

Cisco plans to acquire Seattle-based AI startup NeuralFabric, founded by Microsoft veterans, to enhance its AI Canvas platform and expand enterprise generative AI offerings. The deal focuses on domain-specific small language models and data sovereignty solutions.

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Musk Denies xAI's Reported $15 Billion Funding Round Amid AI Infrastructure Expansion

Elon Musk publicly disputes CNBC reports claiming his AI company xAI raised $15 billion in new funding, calling the reports 'false' while the company continues expanding its data center operations to compete with OpenAI and other AI rivals.

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Cursor Secures $2.3B Series D at $29.3B Valuation as AI Coding Tools Market Heats Up

AI coding assistant Cursor raises massive $2.3 billion funding round at $29.3 billion valuation, tripling its value in just five months. The company reports over $1 billion in annualized revenue as competition intensifies in the AI development tools market.

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Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's AI Startup Parallel Raises $100 Million for Web Search Infrastructure

Parag Agrawal's AI startup Parallel Web Systems secures $100 million Series A funding to build web search infrastructure specifically designed for AI agents. The company aims to provide real-time web access to AI systems while addressing content licensing challenges.

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WisdomAI Secures $50M Series A to Revolutionize Enterprise Analytics with AI-Driven Data Insights

AI data analytics startup WisdomAI, founded by former Rubrik executive Soham Mazumdar, raised $50 million in Series A funding led by Kleiner Perkins and Nvidia's NVentures. The company offers natural language querying of enterprise data while solving LLM hallucination problems through innovative query-based approaches.

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12 Nov 2025

World Labs Launches Marble: Fei-Fei Li's Commercial 3D World Generation Model Enters the Market

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's World Labs has launched Marble, its first commercial world model that generates downloadable 3D environments from text, images, or video prompts. The product marks a significant milestone in spatial intelligence AI and positions World Labs ahead of competitors in the emerging world model market.

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Microsoft-Backed VEIR Achieves 3-Megawatt Superconductor Breakthrough for AI Data Centers

VEIR successfully demonstrates superconducting cable technology that delivers 3 megawatts through a single low-voltage cable, addressing critical power infrastructure challenges in AI data centers. The technology promises 20 times less space usage and 5 times greater distance coverage than traditional copper systems.

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Einride Plans $1.8 Billion SPAC Merger to Accelerate Autonomous EV Trucking Expansion

Swedish autonomous electric truck startup Einride announced plans to go public via a SPAC merger with Legato Merger Corp., valued at $1.8 billion. The deal aims to raise $219 million to accelerate global expansion of its autonomous freight technology.

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Television Veteran Kevin Reilly Takes Helm as CEO of AI Startup Kartel

Former HBO Max and Fox executive Kevin Reilly joins AI consultancy Kartel as CEO, marking a significant move from traditional entertainment to AI-powered creative services. The company helps Fortune 500 brands integrate AI into their workflows for marketing and content creation.

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