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a16z backs Base Power in $200M round for home backup batteries

In less than a year, Base Power has grown from a stealthy startup to one of the largest battery fleets in Texas. Now the company

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A fresh $100M rolls into DIG Ventures as it bids to woo early-stage European startups

The number of “operator VCs” — former founders turned VCs — in Europe in recent years. This is common in the U.S., where the majority

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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, launches an API for Grok 3

Billionaire Elon Musk might’ve just been countersued by OpenAI. But that isn’t stopping his AI company, xAI, from making its flagship Grok 3 model available

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Wayve’s self-driving tech is headed to Nissan vehicles

Nissan said it will use self-driving software developed by Wayve to beef up its advanced driver assistance system starting in 2027, a landmark deal for

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Solid, which claimed to be the ‘AWS of fintech,’ files for bankruptcy after raising nearly $81M in funding

Banking-as-a-service startup Solid (formerly called Wise) has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to documents filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the

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Google says it’ll embrace Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data

Just a few weeks after OpenAI said it would adopt rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to the systems where data resides, Google is

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How a hydrogen explosion led a teenage founder to become Sequoia’s first defense tech investment

As Sequoia Capital’s first defense tech investment, Mach Industries is an industry darling, raising over $80 million since its founding in 2023. Its founder, Ethan

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OpenAI attorneys call for Elon Musk to be enjoined from ‘further unlawful and unfair action’

The dramatic suit between OpenAI and its estranged co-founder, billionaire Elon Musk, shows no sign of letting up. In a filing Wednesday, attorneys for OpenAI

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Nvidia’s H20 AI chips may be spared from export controls — for now

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appears to have struck a deal with the Trump administration to avoid export restrictions on the company’s H20 AI chips. The

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Canoo CEO can buy bankrupt EV startup’s assets, judge rules

The sale of bankrupt EV startup Canoo’s assets to its CEO has been okayed by the judge overseeing the case. After evaluating a number of