AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal merges startups Harness, Traceable

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Jyoti Bansal, co-founder and CEO of startup Harness. Harness Jyoti Bansal knows about weird acquisitions. Eight years ago, his software company, AppDynamics, was on the doorstep of a blockbuster initial public offering. A day before the offering, Cisco swooped in and bought the company for $3.7 billion. Now Bansal is at the center of an […]


What DeepSeek’s Success Tells Us About China’s Ability to Nurture Talent

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To many Chinese, DeepSeek’s success is a victory for China’s education system, proof that it equals that of the United States or has even surpassed it. The core team of developers and scientists behind DeepSeek, the Chinese start-up that has jolted the A.I. world, all attended university in China, according to the company’s founder. That’s […]


Deepseek’s AI model ‘the best work’ out of China: Google Deepmind CEO

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Google DeepMind co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis gives a conference during the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry’s biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on February 26, 2024. Pau Barrena | Afp | Getty Images PARIS — Deepseek’s AI model “is probably the best work” out of China, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of […]


Early Crypto Traders Had Speedy Profit on Trump Coin as Others Suffered Losses

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The curious trade came a little past 9 p.m. on Jan. 17 — a $1,096,109 bet less than two minutes after the soon-to-be president of the United States posted on his social media account that his family had issued a cryptocurrency called $Trump. In those first minutes, a crypto wallet with a unique identification code […]


Anduril in talks to raise money at $28 billion valuation

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Anduril, the defense-tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey, has signed a term sheet to raise capital at a $28 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the matter. The company is planning to raise up to $2.5 billion in the round, said the people who asked not to be named because the details are confidential. […]


How Sam Altman Sidestepped Elon Musk to Win Over Donald Trump

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At President Trump’s inauguration, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, was relegated to the overflow room while other tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg took prime spots on the dais under the Capitol rotunda. But days earlier, before flying into Washington, Mr. Altman was on the phone with Mr. Trump, preparing an […]


Hims & Hers faces lawmaker scrutiny over ‘misleading’ Super Bowl ad

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Hims & Hers is facing scrutiny from lawmakers over an advertisement for its weight loss offerings that’s slated to run during the Super Bowl on Sunday. Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Roger Marshall, R-Kan., wrote a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday expressing concerns over an “upcoming advertisement” that “risks misleading […]


C. Richard Kramlich, Early Investor in Silicon Valley, Dies at 89

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C. Richard Kramlich, an early investor in Silicon Valley who co-founded the investment giant New Enterprise Associates, helping to fuel the booming tech industry, died on Saturday at his home in San Francisco. He was 89. His death was announced by New Enterprise Associates. Mr. Kramlich (pronounced CRAM-lick), whose career spanned more than five decades, […]


Roblox plummets 14% on disappointing bookings, daily active users miss

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Roblox shares plunged 14% after the gaming platform fell short of Wall Street’s bookings and daily active user estimates. The stock was on pace for its worst day since May 2024. Roblox reported bookings of $1.36 billion for the fourth quarter, versus the $1.37 billion expected by analysts polled by LSEG. Daily active users came […]


Andreessen Horowitz Defends Hiring Daniel Penny

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Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, the blue-chip venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, defended to investors their decision to hire Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide last year, according to an internal memo viewed by The New York Times. Andreessen Horowitz, the memo said, is most likely the largest […]