AI & Robotics

AI made publishing effortless – and credibility scarce. Here’s why thought leadership now decides who gets the client, the capital, and the call, and what it takes to build it without wrecking your reputation. Somewhere this week, a contract, a funding round, or a senior role went to someone who wasn’t the most qualified candidate. They were simply the most visible one. That…

AI chip company SambaNova Systems has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, in a first close of its Series F round, with more investors expected to join soon. “In the next few weeks, a few more investors will be coming in, and the second close is likely to finish up,” Rodrigo Liang, CEO and co-founder of SambaNova, told TechCrunch. The latest round comes…

Forterra, a U.S. builder of autonomous vehicles, revealed today that more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs have been deployed in conflict zones in Ukraine for the past nine months, in what the company believes is the largest deployment of autonomous ground vehicles in combat by any U.S. defense tech company. “I believe this to be true of every defense technology that’s ever been created…

Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups. Launched in January of this year, F/ai’s planning to kick-start its second batch this September, aiming to help a handful of AI-focused startups move from early product…