Waymo Secures $5 Billion Loan—Its First—to Fuel Expansion Plans
Alphabet’s robotaxi company turns to lenders for the first time as it eyes new markets at home and abroad. ‘This is an important step in our evolution,’ the company says.
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Browse the archiveMicrosoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’
In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.
Apple Supplier Luxshare Expects No Material Impact From US Probe
Apple Inc. supplier Luxshare Precision Industry Co. is facing a US patent investigation into data-center power technologies following infringement allegations by Vicor Corp., according to a filing on Saturday.
Atlassian’s Head of AI: We Bolted AI Onto 20+ Apps, Almost Didn’t Ship Chat, and Flipped Our Hiring Toward Juniors
Sherif Mansour has been at Atlassian for 17 years. He runs AI across the product portfolio and owns the product management craft, which means 450 PMs. Atlassian has more than 20 apps. Six were built in the gen AI era and the rest are years old. More than 5…
Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe
Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI And Energy Top A Busy Lineup Of Large Rounds
As the AI startup boom progresses, investors appear to be leaving few niches unfunded. That was apparent in this week’s lineup of large funding rounds, which featured AI infrastructure providers, a foundational model developer, a content protection platform…
Exclusive: Gudea Lands $7M To Predict Which Online Narratives Will Go Viral
Gudea has raised $7 million in seed funding, co-led by Mudita Venture Partners and Silicon Road Ventures, to help companies anticipate which online narratives will go viral and understand who is driving them, the startup tells Crunchbase News exclusively.