Databricks announced a new funding round Thursday that values the company at $188 billion. The round was led by Coatue. Databricks did not reveal exactly how much it raised; He said the money is not yet in his hands and the round will close later this summer. (Other outlets have since reported the increase to
VC Jeremy Levine has a tongue-in-cheek solution to something that routinely bothers him, according to a new Wall Street Journal article on the rise of AI transcription applications. On Zoom, it is no longer “Jeremy Levine” but “Jeremy Levine, I do not consent to transcribe or record.” It may sound mean or brilliant, depending on
President Donald Trump is using smoke from Canada’s wildfires to threaten tariffs. Trump lashed out at Canada in a post on Truth Social on Friday, accusing the United States’ northern neighbor of mismanaging its forests and causing the current outbreak of wildfires that are sending waves of smoke into the United States. “America is being
Agility Robotics is opening a 60,000-square-foot facility to train its humanoid robots in Fremont, California, just down the road from the factory where Tesla is expected to begin manufacturing its Optimus robots this year. Tesla has increasingly bet on Optimus. Elon Musk recently said he hopes it will be “the biggest product ever created” once
Nolan took everyone by surprise when this unique crime novel hit the festival circuit. But by the time the film was released in theaters, Nolan was already considered a future star. The film has a great performance from Guy Pearce as a man searching for his wife’s killer while suffering from short-term memory loss, but
Valar Atomics, a startup that builds small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) — essentially factory-built miniaturized power plants designed to be cheaper and faster to deploy than traditional reactors — is in talks to raise a new round of capital, according to three sources familiar with the company. The company, founded three years ago, is seeking
