Perplexity is making its AI browser Comet, previously $200/month with Perplexity Max, free, with rate limits; Perplexity says Comet has millions on its waitlist
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Sources: Perplexity is seeking funding at a $20B post-money valuation, up from a reported $18B in its fundraising round in July 2025 and $520M in January 2024
But Not Only — An AI-Centric Bunch Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai : Gemini 90%, GPT-5 79% — DeepSeek retreats to Nvidia; Google turns on memory Chaitanya Kohli / MEDIANAMA : From Defender to Buyer: Wh...
Source: US DOL ended its probe into Scale AI's Fair Labor Standards Act compliance, after announcing a friendlier approach to classifying workers as contractors
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A leaked Chinese dataset on “public opinion work” reveals 133,000 entries fed into an LLM designed to automatically flag content deemed sensitive by China
Charles Rollet / TechCrunch : X: @byron_wan . Forums: r/technology X: Byron Wan / @byron_wan : A leaked dataset of 133,000 text examples reveals how a sophisticated large language model is being desi...
NY-based Ataraxis AI, which uses AI to predict if a patient has cancer and what their cancer outcome looks like, raised a $20.4M Series A led by AIX Ventures
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Filing: ChatGPT's head of product, Nick Turley, will testify as a witness for the US DOJ in its antitrust case against Google, as a court decides penalties
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Inside the fall and last-minute revival of accounting startup Bench, which struggled with implementing automation tools and faced tumult in its executive suite
Charles Rollet / TechCrunch : X: @charlesrollet1 X: Charles Rollet / @charlesrollet1 : NEW: Inside the fall and last-minute revival of Bench, the VC-backed accounting startup that imploded & was acqu...
Sources: Anysphere, developer of GitHub Copilot rival Cursor, raised a $100M Series B at a $2.6B valuation, up from a $400M valuation in August 2024
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch : X: @_anthonyriera , @suhail , @mattvagni , @techau , and @charlesrollet1 X: Anthony Riera / @_anthonyriera : Every tech company should pay Cursor to their engineers. 5x p...
Recorded Future: a recent Russian influence campaign “very likely” used AI-generated voiceovers from ElevenLabs and others to make videos appear more legitimate
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A profile of data labeler Scale AI, which has a $249M contract with the US DoD and was the first AI company to have an LLM deployed on a classified network
the tech behind chatbots such as ChatGPT — deployed on a classified network after it signed a deal with the Army's XVIII Airborne Corps.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Charles Rollet / @charlesr...