Deepgram, which is building enterprise voice-recognition tech, raised a $130M Series C led by AVP at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $215M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Deepgram raises $130M at $1.3B valuation and buys a YC AI startup | TechCrunch
Deepgram is raising its Series C round at a $1.3 billion valuation.
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Deepgram, which is building enterprise voice recognition AI tech, raised a $130M Series C led by AVP at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $215M+
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Microsoft changes its data center approach, pledging to pay its power costs, reject tax breaks, and replenish more water than it uses, amid local opposition (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
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Microsoft responds to AI data center revolt, vowing to cover full power costs and reject local tax breaks
The tech giant's new "community first" initiative includes pledges to pay full power costs, reject local tax breaks, and replenish more water ...
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Microsoft changes its data center approach, pledging to pay its own power costs, reject tax breaks, and replenish more water than it uses, amid local opposition
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Crypto scams received $14B+ on-chain in 2025, up from 2024's $12B and potentially rising to $17B+ as more wallets are found; impersonation scams jumped 1,400% (Chainalysis) https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-scams-2026/
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Crypto scams received $14B+ on-chain in 2025, up from 2024
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Salesforce makes Slack's new AI-powered Slackbot generally available, helping users answer workflow questions, draft documents, schedule meetings, and more (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
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Your Slackbot just got a huge AI agent upgrade - what it can do now (starting today)
Slackbot can take action on your behalf. Here's how.
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Salesforce makes Slack
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Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone and other execs discuss the challenges Netflix faces in streaming live events, after broadcasting 200+ live events since March 2023 (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/articles/netflix-wanted-to-reinvent-live-tv-it-hasnt-been-easy-71f57bf5?st=rBzah2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone and other execs discuss the challenges Netflix faces in streaming live events; it has broadcasted 200+ live events since March 2023
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IDC: in Q4 2025, global PC shipments rose nearly 10% YoY to 76.4M units, helped by Windows 10 end-of-support and OEMs pulling forward inventory amid tariffs (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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PC shipments just grew unexpectedly amid RAM shortages
PC shipments grew nearly 10 percent in Q4, 2025
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IDC: global PC shipments rose 9.6% YoY to 76.4M units in Q4 2025, helped by Microsoft ending Windows 10 support and OEMs pulling forward inventory amid tariffs
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Boston- and Tel Aviv-based Converge Bio, which uses AI trained on molecular data to help pharma and biotech companies develop drugs, raised a $25M Series A (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
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Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz | TechCrunch
AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives a...
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Boston- and Tel Aviv-based Converge Bio, which uses AI trained on molecular data to help pharma and biotech companies develop drugs, raised a $25M Series A
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NYC-based Proxima, which uses AI to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised an $80M seed led by DCVC, with participation from Nvidia and others (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
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Proxima Raises $80 Million for AI Drug Discovery From DCVC, Nvidia
Proxima, a biotech startup using artificial intelligence to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised $80 million in seed funding, whi...
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NYC-based Proxima, which uses AI to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised an $80M seed led by DCVC; Nvidia, Roivant, and Braidwell invested too
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Sources: OpenAI plans a 60-second Super Bowl ad during NBC's broadcast, the second straight year of doing so; ad buyers say clients pay $8M+ for just 30 seconds (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/business/media/super-bowl-lx-ads-openai-0f605795?st=UZ3VJG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Sources: OpenAI plans a 60-second Super Bowl ad during NBC
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Interviews with Spotify founder Daniel Ek on his CEO exit, and new co-CEOs Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström, who face algorithmic fatigue and angry artists (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-13/spotify-s-new-ceos-are-battling-angry-artists-and-algo-fatigue
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Interviews with Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek, on his CEO exit, and new co-CEOs Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström, who face algorithm fatigue and angry artists
By Ashley Carman / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.