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Arcee is a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a high-performing, massive, open source LLM. And it's gaining popularity with OpenClaw users.

Eclipse will put some of that money towards incubating, or building startups.

Nvidia-backed Asia AI data center provider Firmus has now raised $1.35 billion in six months.

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Merino Energy has simplified the heat pump dramatically in a quest to make them cheaper and easier to install.

The defense aviation startup is coming off two successful flight demonstrations, and with the next one, it's aiming to go supersonic.

Rocket's new AI platform combines strategy, product building, and competitive intelligence, aiming to move beyond code generation.

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The company is also announcing a deal with L3Harris to build the sensors for Xoople's spacecraft.

A Democratic congressman had harsh criticism for Polymarket for allowing users to bet on the date the U.S. would confirm the rescue of Air Force service members shot down over Iran.

Why did Founders Fund invest $220 million in cattle management startup Halter?

The controversy around Delve appears to have cost the compliance startup its relationship with accelerator Y Combinator.

It’s about to become more expensive for Claude Code subscribers to use Anthropic’s coding assistant with OpenClaw and other third-party tools.

Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.

Moonbounce has raised $12 million to grow its AI control engine that converts content moderation policies into consistent, predictable AI behavior.

Realta Fusion is buying magnets from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, providing a revenue stopgap.

It is the path of least resistance for a growth-stage company to hire from the familiar Silicon Valley pipelines but if a founder wants a diverse team, that value has to be put into practice from the very first hire. 

Delve faces new allegations that it violated the open source license of its customer, Sim.ai, by taking the customers's tool and passing it off as its own.