Zacua Ventures has closed a $135M second fund, more than double its first, to back early-stage start-ups in construction, energy, manufacturing and mining.

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Ex-Palantir founders raise $17M for Dream's AI building design models

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Ex-Palantir founders raise $17M for Dream's AI building design models

San Francisco startup Dream has raised $17M from a16z and others to build AI models that design and engineer buildings.

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Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 tried to upload a file to Beijing

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2w ago

Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 tried to upload a file to Beijing

Cohere’s Nick Frosst says Qwen models ‘may attempt to contact servers in China without prompting’, in a rare test result.

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Butterfield had one hour with Benioff before Salesforce bought Slack

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2w ago

Butterfield had one hour with Benioff before Salesforce bought Slack

Butterfield says his last Benioff meeting before the deal ‘was cut short because McConaughey arrived’. A Slack veteran tells the story.

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PwC projects that the global investment in AI infrastructure will reach $31.6 trillion by 2050

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2mo ago

PwC projects that the global investment in AI infrastructure will reach $31.6 trillion by 2050

Annual data centre capex rises from $800bn to $1.8tn by 2050 in PwC’s modelling, with the US taking 48% and chips displacing construction as the driver.

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