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Anthropic is seeking to secure up to $88.5 billion in its planned IPO and a concurrent private placement, potentially making it the largest-ever fundraise tied to a public market debut.
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Ohio State University and Microsoft signed a five-year partnership to move up to 80% of the university’s storage and computing to Azure, expand AI note-drafting at its Wexner Medical Center and build “smart hospital” systems. No financial terms were disclosed.
The state’s research center will check AI companies’ work instead of taking their word.
Leaker Aaron Perris has discovered evidence of a new Mac app in the works at Apple called Harbor, which makes it easy to run local AI models across one or more Macs. more…
Ollama lets you download and run popular AI models like DeepSeek, Qwen, Gemma, and Llama directly on your PC, without subscriptions or sending your data to the cloud. Use it for chatting, coding, and other AI tasks, with support for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
New research suggests there may be a gap between how employees should be using AI within the terms of their role, and what they are actually doing with the technology.
OpenAI launched Businesses in ChatGPT in beta, letting businesses claim verified profiles, update their details and see aggregated data on how often ChatGPT mentions them. US ecommerce and online-service firms can also launch Business Agents, which OpenAI also sells as ads.
A total of 34 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in October, adding more than $96 billion in value and $14.8 billion in total funding to the board. The board also reached a new record of 1,900 private companies last month, along with a new record for the U.S.
AI can help startups reduce patent preparation costs, but DIY applications may overlook critical issues.
More money is pouring into Series A rounds, but it isn’t opening the door to more startups. U.S. companies have raised $42 billion at that stage this year through October, up roughly 60% year over year, while deal counts remain on pace with the past few years, Crunchbase data shows.
AI startups should be judged by durable revenue, full-price renewals and healthy margins after delivery costs, with embedded customer workflows providing stronger defensibility as model access gets cheaper, rather than their paper valuation, writes guest author Ilman Shazhaev, founder and CEO of…
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