Month: June 2025

Gautier Cloix will bring Palantirs secret sauce to H Company after cofounder exodus Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/gautier-cloix-h-company-ceo/

Matt Clifford steps down as UK prime ministers advisor on AI Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/matt-clifford-steps-down-as-uk-prime-ministers-advisor-on-ai/

Vinted CEO Thomas Plantenga: ‘We’re not going to exit’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/vinted-ceo-thomas-plantenga-sifted-podcast/

Why Spanish tech is sizzling: The mentality has completely shifted in the last six months Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/why-spanish-tech-is-sizzling/

Rippling spy says men have been following him, and his wife is afraid If becoming a corporate spy sounds exciting, let this newest affidavit from confessed Rippling spy Keith O’Brien serve as a warning. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/rippling-spy-says-men-have-been-following-him-and-his-wife-is-afraid/

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round at a $10 billion valuation. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-closes-on-2b-at-10b-valuation/

Cluely, a startup that helps ‘cheat on everything,’ raises $15M from a16z Cluely’s new funding comes roughly two months after it raised $5.3 million in seed funding co-led by Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/cluely-a-startup-that-helps-cheat-on-everything-raises-15m-from-a16z/

TechCrunch Mobility: Applied Intuition’s eye-popping valuation, the new age of micromobility, and Waymo’s wild week  Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Waymo might be the largest commercial robotaxi

Anthropic says most AI models, not just Claude, will resort to blackmail Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn the model off in controlled test scenarios, the company is out with new research suggesting the

Northern Gritstone raises fund for UK Northern University science and technology investments Northern Gritstone today announces the launch of the Northern Universities Venture Fund, a new Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund offering investors access to early-stage IP-rich science and deeptech investment opportunities from the Universities of Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and