Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z bio and health strategy, steps down

Posted on June 11, 2025 by Techme101

Since its founding in 2014, a16z Bio+ Health has raised four funds of nearly $3 billion each, including a $1.5 billion fund that closed in 2022.

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Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey says the defense tech company will ‘definitely’ go public

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Techme101

Defense tech startup Anduril Industries will eventually go public, according to founder and CEO Palmer Luckey.

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Tesla rallies on robotaxi hopes as fear over Musk-Trump feud subsides

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Techme101

Tesla rallied for a third straight day, pushing the stock close to where it was trading before last week’s spat between Elon Musk and President Trump.

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AI storage platform Vast Data aimed for $25B valuation in new round, sources say

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Techme101

The AI-friendly data storage startup is raising capital at a giant leap in valuation.

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Apple Intelligence: Everything you need to know about Apple’s AI model and services

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Techme101

Apple Intelligence was designed to leverage things that generative AI already does well, like text and image generation, to improve upon existing features.

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Google offers buyouts to employees across the company, including Search

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Techme101

Google’s buyouts are being offered to employees in Google’s central engineering units as well as marketing, research and communications teams.

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YouTube says its ecosystem created 490k jobs and added $55B to the US GDP in 2024

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Techme101

YouTube’s impact report shows that the creator economy has continued to grow, despite less interest from venture capitalists.

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OpenAI releases o3-pro, a souped-up version of its o3 AI reasoning model

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI has launched o3-pro, an AI model that the company claims is its most capable yet.

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Amazon Kuiper second satellite launch delayed by ULA due to weather

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Techme101

The second launch of Amazon’s Kuiper internet satellites is now scheduled for June 16, instead of Friday.

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Former Wall Street analyst building market AI on why stock pickers won’t go extinct

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Techme101

Former Morgan Stanley analyst and AlphaSense CEO Jack Kokko builds gen AI models that do Wall Street analyst work, but he isn’t worried about their future.

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