Clay has raised $115m in a Series D round that values the New York go-to-market software company at $7.1bn. Wellington Management led the round, the company said in its announcement on Wednesday. The New York Times broke the news, in a DealBook story b…
The HERE-SBD EV Index finds positive American perceptions of charging infrastructure rose from 28% to 47% in a year, and 60% now expect it to keep improving, even as US battery-electric market share fell to 5.37%. HERE is headquartered in Amsterdam and…
“It’s a privilege, and no small responsibility, to welcome a product that over 250,000 organizations have integrated into their workflows,” said Luca Ferrari, the chief executive and co-founder of Bending Spoons. His Milan-based group has agreed to buy…
Antioch, a New York startup that builds simulation software for robots, drones and other autonomous machines, has raised a $32m Series A. Greylock led the round. The money goes on the idea that physical AI teams should test their systems in the cloud b…
Ramp, the corporate card and spend management company, is in early talks to raise new funding at a valuation of roughly $60bn. That would put it $16bn above the valuation it reached just three months ago. Rebecca Torrence and Natasha Mascarenhas of Blo…
The US Department of Energy has lent NextEra Energy up to $1.9bn to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center. It is Iowa’s only nuclear power plant. Most of its power is already sold to Google, under a 25-year deal to supply the company’s cloud and AI in…
Senator Josh Hawley has opened an investigation into the incident in which OpenAI’s models broke out of their test environment and compromised Hugging Face, giving the company until 1 October to answer 16 questions and hand over records of its policies…
China’s foreign ministry has rejected the joint US intelligence advisory accusing Chinese developers of extracting capabilities from American frontier models at industrial scale, calling on Washington to stop making unfounded accusations and smears. Ma…
The United States opened its criminal case against Huawei in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday, with a prosecutor describing two decades of conduct by the world’s largest telecoms equipment maker as theft, lies and cover-up. “Theft, lies, cover-up. F…
The US Justice Department is examining whether Nvidia deliberately structured its licensing deal with inference chip designer Groq in a way that avoided antitrust review, according to a New York Times report. The Justice Department opened its inquiry s…