Month: September 2025

Finland’s IQM lands $320m Series B to scale quantum computers Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/iqm-raises-320m-series-b/

How the chief marketing officer role is changing with AI Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/cmo-role-changing-ai/

DeepL moves beyond translation with AI agent launch Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/deepl-agent-release/

How to get a job at Synthesia: ‘This approach isn’t for everyone’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/how-to-get-a-job-at-synthesia-this-approach-isnt-for-everyone/

Mistral, the French AI giant, is reportedly on the cusp of securing a $14B valuation The two-year-old OpenAI rival, founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, develops open source language models and Le Chat, its AI chatbot built for European audiences. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/03/mistral-the-french-ai-giant-is-reportedly-on-the-cusp-of-securing-a-14-billion-valuation/

Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor, alleging they tried to steal its biggest customers   Scale is clearly concerned enough about the threat of Mercor, and the poaching of one of its employees, to pursue legal action. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/03/scale-ai-is-suing-a-former-employee-and-rival-mercor-alleging-they-tried-to-steal-its-biggest-customers/

Apple’s Siri upgrade could reportedly be powered by Google Gemini An AI Siri is in the works and it could be running Gemini under the hood. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/03/apples-siri-upgrade-could-reportedly-be-powered-by-google-gemini/

xAI’s CFO is the latest executive to leave Elon Musk’s AI firm While at xAI, Mike Liberatore helped orchestrate the company’s $5 billion debt raise, alongside another $5 billion in equity — almost half of which came from SpaceX. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/03/xais-cfo-is-the-latest-executive-to-leave-elon-musks-ai-firm/

FirstClub bucks India’s speed obsession, quickly triples valuation to $120M with premium approach FirstClub has raised $23 million in a Series A round co-led by Accel and RTP Global to expand its premium quick commerce platform. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/03/firstclub-bucks-indias-speed-obsession-quickly-triples-valuation-to-120m-with-premium-approach/

Anthropic raises $13 billion at $183 billion valuation, tripling its value in six months Anthropic, the AI research startup behind the Claude family of models, has raised $13 billion in a Series F round, bringing its post-money valuation to $183 billion, more than tripling its value from just six months