Vimeo, the video-hosting platform, is laying off some of its global employees a report From Business Insider. This step comes shortly after company acquisition by Italian tech group Bending Spoons, which bought it last year for $1.38 billion in an all-cash deal. Bending Spoons confirmed the layoffs to BI, but did not say how many…
LiveKit, a developer of infrastructure software for real-time AI voice and video applications, has announced Raising $100 million funding at a valuation of $1 billion. This round comes ten months after LiveKit Previous FundraisingThe round was led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors including Altimeter Capital Management, Hanabi Capital and Redpoint Ventures. LiveKit…
The open-source project is owned by the creators of VLLM. announced He spun off the popular tool into a VC-backed startup, Inferact, and raised $150 million in seed funding at a valuation of $800 million. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners, confirmed TechCrunch. earlier reporting That vLLM has raised capital…
Microsoft’s ongoing outage is preventing enterprise customers from accessing email inboxes, Files, Meetings, and other Microsoft cloud services. The technology giant said in a post on x Around 2:30 a.m. ET it reported that the outage was caused by “a portion of the service infrastructure in North America that is not processing traffic as expected.”…
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Tesla is offering robotaxi rides to passengers in Austin without a human safety driver in the front seat. CEO Elon Musk Posted on its social media platform He then made a recruitment pitch for engineers interested in “solving real-world AI”, which he says will “potentially boost AGI”, to join the Tesla AI team. Tesla starts…
Since 2024, Anthropic’s performance optimization team has given job applicants a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff. But as AI coding tools have gotten better, testing has had to change a lot to stay ahead of AI-assisted fraud. Team leader Tristan Hume describes the history of the challenge In a blog post…
Apple’s long-awaited Siri revamp could turn the smart assistant into a chatbot similar to ChatGPIT, according to a report From Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Their sources say the Siri chatbot, which will be integrated into iOS 27, could be the centerpiece of Apple’s WWDC presentation in June. The Siri chatbot, internally named “Campos”, will work with…
The VCs who backed OpenEvidence clearly aren’t worried OpenAI and Anthropic New health information products. startup on wednesday announced It raised an additional $250 million in Series D funding at a valuation of $12 billion, co-led by Thrive Capital and DST. This is double its previous raise in October: $200 million $6 billion led by…
Ethos Technologies has priced its initial public offering and is expected to go public on Thursday, making it one of the first tech IPOs of the year. If it hits its current price range of $18 to $20 per share, it would enter at $1.26 billion at the highest price — raising $102.6 million for…
