AI startup "Cheat at Everything" lands a16z backing

An AI startup boldly christened with a slogan that practically shouts “cheat at everything” has secured a substantial investment from Andreessen Horowitz. The funding highlights an unusual blend of irreverence and innovation in the tech space—proving that even cheeky startups can charm the hard-nosed world of venture capital.

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Apple Internally Discussing Whether to Bid to Acquire Perplexity AI

Eric Slivka / macrumors - Apple executives have been discussing the possibility of the company making a bid to acquire Perplexity AI, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Perplexity is one of the leading AI startups that has proven popular as an AI-infused web search engine.Merge…

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Elon Musk's xAI is projected to lose $13 billion in 2025 — AI project burns $1 billion a month in expenditures

tomshardware - Elon Musk's AI startup xAI is rapidly burning through cash — spending $1 billion a month and projecting $13 billion in losses for 2025 — as it races to build massive AI infrastructure and catch up with rivals.

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AI startup Tennr raises $101M to revolutionize patient referrals

Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Healthcare document intelligence-focused startup Tennr Inc. today announced it raised $101 million in a funding round to fix what’s wrong with patient referrals. The Series C investment was led by IVP with participation from existing backers Andreessen Ho…

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Elon Musk’s xAI Is Reportedly Burning Through $1 Billion a Month

Lucas Ropek / gizmodo - Musk's new AI business is a cash-hungry monster.

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xAI’s New $9.3B Debt Gamble: Elon Musk’s Urgent Push for AI Dominance

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Elon Musk's xAI is aiming to raisE a staggering $9.3 billion in a high-stakes gamble to fund its 'Colossus' supercomputer and push its controversial Grok AI into the enterprise market, challenging industry giants.The post xAI’s New $9.3B Debt Gamble: Elon…

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Ramp secures $200M Series E, vaulting valuation to $16B

Ramp announced a $200 million Series E funding round that propelled its valuation from $13 billion to $16 billion within just three months. The latest influx reinforces Ramp’s position in the AI-based financial operations platform arena and highlights investor confidence in its innovative spend management solutions.

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Sword Health raises $40M at $4B valuation to expand AI-first care Into mental health

Cate Lawrence / tech - Sword Health has raised a $40 million funding round at a $4 billion valuation, led by General Catalyst, bringing its funding to over $300 million. The Portuguese-founded company also unveiled Mind, a ...

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Patreon will increase the cut it takes from new creators

Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - Patreon is bumping its take fee from creators from 8% to 10%, but only for new signups.

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How AI sales startup Landbase nabbed Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures to lead its $30M Series A

Julie Bort / techcrunch - A concept Landbase's CEO calls "digital trust" led nearly 130 VCs to pursue the "vibe GTM" startup.

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Disastrous MindsEye launch plagued by performance issues — even an RTX 5090 can't deliver 60 fps despite 19GB VRAM usage, developer working on a fix

tomshardware - MindsEye players are complaining of poor performance despite having hardware that exceeds the game's recommended requirements.

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Spains Multiverse raises $215m and increases valuation 5x

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The Browser Company launches its AI-first browser, Dia, in beta

Ivan Mehta / techcrunch - With its built-in AI interface, Dia hopes to give people an easy way to use AI, cutting out the need to visit tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude.

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Wandercraft raises $75m and expands into humanoid robots with Renault partnership

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Germanys Proxima Fusion secures 130m

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Mistral launches Europe's first reasoning model Magistral but lags behind competitors

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - The French start-up Mistral is launching its first reasoning model on the market with "Magistral". It is designed to enable logical thinking in European languages.The article Mistral launches Europe's first reasoning model Magistral but lags behind compet…

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Enterprise AI startup Glean lands a $7.2B valuation

Julie Bort / techcrunch - Glean announced on Tuesday that is raised a $150 million Series F led by Wellington Management at a $7.2 billion valuation.

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Mistral releases a pair of AI reasoning models

Kyle Wiggers / techcrunch - Mistral released Magistral, its first family of reasoning models. Like other reasoning models — e.g. OpenAI's o3 and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro — Magistral works through problems step-by-step for improved consistency and reliability across topics such as mat…

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Grocery unicorn Rohlik to sell the tech that helped it hit profitability

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UK quantum startup Oxford Ionics acquired by IonQ in $1.1bn deal

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