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Figma bets on India to expand beyond design

Figma is expanding its presence in India by setting up a local office and hiring Indian talent as it seeks to deepen ties with one of its largest user communities and make a broader push to better win over developers alongside the designers who already rely on the platform. Founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, Figma broke through by offering a browser-based interface at a time when…
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The global race for the AI app layer is still on

The U.S. is far ahead of Europe in the race for large AI models – but the picture is different for the application layer, with emerging category leaders such as Lovable, the vibe-coding startup, and Synthesia, which makes AI-generated video for the…
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Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup

Meta may be about to lose one of its most renowned AI heads: Yann LeCun, a chief AI scientist at the company, is planning to leave the company to build his own startup, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. LeCun, a professor at New York University, senior researcher at Meta, and winner of the prestigious A.M. Turing Award, plans to leave in the coming months, and is already in…
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Scribe hits $1.3B valuation as it moves to show where AI will actually pay off

After helping thousands of enterprises document how work actually happens, Scribe has raised $75 million at a $1.3 billion post-money valuation to roll out Scribe Optimize, a platform that maps workflows across the enterprise to reveal where automation and AI will actually yield returns – instead of becoming another sunk cost. The all-equity Series C round was led by StepStone, with…
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Subtle Computing’s voice isolation models help computers understand you in noisy environments

California-based startup Subtle Computing is tackling the problem of capturing people’s voices in noisy environments with its own voice-isolation models – a technology that could benefit voice-based AI products and services. Consumer apps using voice AI are today seeing tremendous growth. AI meeting note-takers like Granola, Fireflies, Fathom, and Read AI have received both user and…
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