BusinessObserver24.com | Advanced Technology & Industrial Innovation Hub https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html HOME Jeff Dean leaving Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop – qz.com Exclusive | Situational Awareness Bets $400 Million on Stealth Chip Startup After Crash – WSJ Insurtech startup Faye announces $50M capital raise – Richmond BizSense Nearly 70 startups compete for $1.4M in equity-free funding in St. Louis – First Alert 4 Africa’s funding reset leaves early-stage tech founders behind – semafor.com Hadrian valued at nearly $8 billion after fresh funding as money pours into defense tech – CNBC AI Chip Startup Taalas Acquired by AMD – EE Times Ocean-Powered Data Center Startup Set to Double Valuation to $2 Billion – The Information Northwood Space’s Bridgit Mendler on the next chapter for space startups – Fortune SpaceX’s new Starfall program offers validation and competition for reentry startups – SpaceNews CME venture with FanDuel falters as prediction startups race ahead – Crain’s Chicago Business Environmental groups challenge FCC approval of startup’s plan to beam on-demand sunlight from space – NBC News AMD buys chip startup that hardwires AI models into its silicon – CNBC They ran tea shops and podcast companies. Now they’re racing to build the next generation of weapons. – Business Insider Exclusive | Startup Raises $700 Million to Replace Data-Center Wires With Light – WSJ Google’s Jeff Dean — chief scientist for 27 years — leaving during AI leadership overhaul for startup – New York Post Vertical farming startup shuts down metro Atlanta operations – AJC.com The startup idea that convinced a UW computer science legend to leave Google after 27 years – GeekWire Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup – TechCrunch Chinese Startup AI² Robotics Is Said to Consider Hong Kong IPO – Bloomberg.com 4 of Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving—and Launching Their Own AI Startup – WIRED Sequoia Leads $1 Billion Funding Round in Nuke Startup Valar – Bloomberg.com Harvey in Talks to Raise Funding at $15.5 Billion Valuation – The Information Tech Moves: Salesforce/Tableau exec departs; startups AIM and Gravitics add to C-suite – GeekWire Robinhood to list a fund that lets anyone back Y Combinator startups – TechCrunch A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem – TechCrunch AI Startup Flapping Airplanes Is In Talks To Raise Funding At A $5 Billion Valuation – Forbes German Robotics Startup Agile Robots Set to Double Revenue This Year – WSJ After Skyroot’s Big Win, Indian Space Startups Bag $871 Million Funding – NDTV Israeli startups raised $1.5 billion in July as investors doubled down on enterprise AI – calcalistech.com SpaceX’s IPO is fueling a new wave of space startups and opening markets beyond Earth – Fortune As semiconductor stocks slide, these chip startup IPOs could stall – PitchBook EXCLUSIVE: Intel providing chip technology to startup led by co-investor of Tan in rare deal – Reuters Seattle Tech Week notebook: AI, startups, and the best insights and takeaways we heard – GeekWire Robotics startup Generalist AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $3 billion valuation – Business Insider VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why – TechCrunch Data Centers Are Facing an Energy Crisis. A $550 Million Startup Thinks It Found the Answer – inc.com America’s startup boom offers hope for the future of work – The Economist Satellite Startup K2 Space Raises $500 Million at $6.8 Billion Value – Bloomberg.com Synthetic-user startup Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation 5 months after $100M Series A – TechCrunch Seattle lands another $1B startup: Here’s the latest arrival in the industrial AI boom – GeekWire Whatnot is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $20 billion valuation – Business Insider Four Top Google A.I. Researchers Form New Start-Up – The New York Times AI security startup Onyx raises $113 million Series B at $640 million valuation – calcalistech.com Lilian Weng flips from Thinking Machines to OpenAI after saying the startup’s pace hurt her health – Business Insider He grew up near Boston, went to Harvard, and worked at MIT. Why did he found his company in California? – The Boston Globe This AI startup has roughly 50 employees, no product and has never published a word of research. It’s worth $32 billion – Yahoo Finance A Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern Life – WIRED These American Startups Are Making China’s AI Smarter – Forbes