Pittsburgh-based Skild AI, which makes robotics foundation models, raised a $1.4B Series C at a $14B+ valuation, up from ~$4.5B in June 2025
Skild AI Inc., a fast-rising startup that makes software to help robots learn to complete tasks, has secured about $1.4 billion …
With Trump set to speak at an energy and AI summit at Carnegie Mellon, a look at plans to turn some shuttered mill sites in Pittsburgh into AI data centers
Two Trump visits span city's legacy industry, higher-tech pursuits — PITTSBURGH—Two months ago, President Trump stood in a cavernous …
Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which makes robots that inspect infrastructure, raised a $125M Series D at a $1.25B valuation, up from $633M in December 2023
Gecko Robotics announced on Thursday that it raised $125 million in a Series D funding round, raising the AI and robotics company's valuation to $1.25 billion.
OpenAI will fund the expansion of Axios to Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Boulder, and Huntsville, as part of a broader content-sharing and technology deal
- Google struck a deal with McClatchy to fund the creation of three digital-only local newsrooms in 2019.
A look at Elon Musk's unparalleled involvement in the US election; sources: Trump's campaign contacted X to stop the circulation of the hacked JD Vance dossier
the equivalent of massive unregistered campaign donations; most of it is dangerous, obliterating the fragile guardrails in our democratic process; all of it is not normal and not ethical. — If you s...
Sources: Pittsburgh-based Abridge, which uses AI to transcribe doctors' conversations with their patients, raised $250M at a $2.5B pre-money valuation
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Source: DOJ is investigating whether the use of a predictive child welfare algorithm in PA's Allegheny County discriminates against parents with disabilities
For the two weeks that the Hackneys' baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side … Tweets: @apocalypticanow , @ap , and @rebeccakmccray Tweets: @...
Experts say political ads on Meta's platforms no longer represent good ROI, thanks to a stagnating user base and policy changes that make targeting voters hard
Beth Becker had just finished teaching Democrats how to use Facebook's digital tools at the Netroots conference in Pittsburgh … Tweets: @mediumbuying , @mediumbuying , @mediumbuying , @travisfain , @l...
Intel commits $20B to build at least two semiconductor fabrication plants on a 1,000-acre site by 2025, employing at least 3,000 people in New Albany, Ohio
and US manufacturing New York Times : Biden Looks to Intel's U.S. Investment to Buoy His China Agenda Alana Semuels / TIME : Exclusive: Intel Reveals Plans for Massive New Ohio Factory, Fighting the C...
Google contract workers in Pittsburgh have ratified a three-year deal with their employer HCL, for higher wages and more, nearly two years after unionizing
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