University of Texas spinout Apptronik, a builder of humanoid robots for Google DeepMind among others, on Wednesday announced that it re-opened its Series A to raise a total of $935 million for the round. While the company did not disclose the valuation, TechCrunch separately learned that its post-money valuation is now about $5.3 billion. Apptronik … Read more
The search for Nancy Guthrie has entered its ninth day, with investigators continuing their relentless efforts to locate her and to identify the person responsible for her disappearance. Authorities suspect that Guthrie, 84, was taken from her residence against her will in the Catalina Foothills, a region situated north of Tucson, Arizona. Nancy Guthrie disappearance … Read more
Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping new $15 billion in funding. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its infrastructure team, the one responsible for some of its biggest, most prominent AI investments including Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Ideogram, Fal and dozens of others. A16z general partner with the infra team Jennifer Li (who oversees such investments as ElevenLabs – just valued at $11 billion); Ideagram and Fal, has a clear thesis on where the team is looking … Read more