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Russian President Vladimir Putin held more than three hours of “highly useful” talks on Saturday with two US envoys seeking a deal to end the Ukraine war, a Kremlin aide said, but he gave no indication of any breakthrough.

Add to Google Preferred Sources1 Nvidia is in talks to invest approximately $2.5 billion in Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, with the company’s new funding round potentially reaching $5 billion to $6 billion at a pre-money valuation of at least $40 billion. If completed, the deal would…

Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded early last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is in discussions to raise $1 billion at a valuation of at least $40 billion, The Information reported Thursday. Existing backer Accel is in talks to lead the fundraise, according to our

Data center developer Crusoe, which counts Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI as its customers, has raised a new $3 billion round at a $30 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported.

AI training-data startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion. This just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April.

The popular prediction market Polymarket has raised $300 million from 1789 Capital as part of a new funding round totaling around $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources.

Polymarket is raising $1 billion in a new funding round led by 1789 Capital that values the prediction-market platform at $21 billion on a post-money basis, according to a Bloomberg report.

For anyone counting down the months until Grand Theft Auto VI, two questions hanging over Rockstar’s long-awaited game may finally have answers: does the game have microtransactions, and does it have generative AI content?

Instinct, the developer of an artificial intelligence assistant popular among Silicon Valley tech workers, is reportedly raising $250 million in funding.

I wrote on Monday that rumors were circulating that Hugging Face was looking to be acquired for about $13 billion. That’s exactly what is now happening according to anonymous insiders who spoke to the Information and Business Insider. The deal is reportedly still being finalized and may still crumble.