Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams

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CircuitHub takes $28m from Plural to make PCBs the way clouds make compute

The Cambridge-rooted, Massachusetts-based automated electronics factory has delivered more than two million boards across 20,000 engineers. Plural’s bet is on the trillion-dollar reshoring tailwind behind it. CircuitHub, the automated-electronics-manufacturing company founded by Andrew Seddon, has raised $28m in funding led by Plural. The round is the largest CircuitHub

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Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market

Eric Schmidt stood at a lectern at the University of Arizona’s spring commencement and told a stadium full of graduates that the impact of artificial intelligence would be ‘larger, faster, and more consequential’ than anything they had so far lived through. The former Google chief executive was attempting, on

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OpenAI plants its first overseas applied-AI lab in Singapore, with a $235M commitment

The company will scale to about 200 staff in the city-state and align the lab’s work to Singapore’s public-sector, finance, healthcare, and digital-infrastructure priorities. OpenAI said on Wednesday it will open its first applied-AI lab outside the United States in Singapore, with a S$300m (about $235m) commitment

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Meta offers rival AI chatbots a limited free pass into WhatsApp, on Brussels’ terms

After January’s blanket ban and March’s $0.0625-per-message fee, Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal: free WhatsApp access for OpenAI, Perplexity, and others, up to a usage cap, then a fee. Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal that would give rival AI chatbots, including

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CircuitHub takes $28m from Plural to make PCBs the way clouds make compute

Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market

OpenAI plants its first overseas applied-AI lab in Singapore, with a $235M commitment

Meta offers rival AI chatbots a limited free pass into WhatsApp, on Brussels’ terms