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San Jose had its third murder this year and it happened on Valentine’s Day. On February 14, 2025, at 7:14 PM, San José Police Department Patrol Officers responded to a report of a fight involving multiple people in the 300 Block of Santana Row. While enroute, the caller reported that someone had been stabbed. Upon […]
SAN JOSE — Lambda, the AI Developer Cloud, has raised a $480 million Series D, bringing the total equity capital raised to date to $863 million. The round was co-led by Andra Capital and SGW with participation from new investors Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, and NVIDIA, among […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Baseten, an inference platform for AI-native products, has closed a $75 million Series C round of funding co-led by IVP and Spark with additional participation from Greylock, Conviction, South Park Commons, 01 Advisors and Lachy Groom. The deal brings the company’s total funding to $135 million and follows a year of hypergrowth […]
Legendary actor Robert De Niro will star in a new Netflix film The Whisper Man produced by studio AGBO. The film is based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Alex North: When his eight-year-old son is abducted, a widowed crime writer looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, […]
PALO ALTO — Subsense, Inc., a neurotechnology company developing the first non-surgical, nanoparticle-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), has emerged from stealth to formally reveal its efforts in the emerging field of non-invasive brain connectivity. Co-founded by neurotech entrepreneur Tetiana Aleksandrova and serial entrepreneur Artem Sokolov, Subsense has raised $17 million in seed funding led by Sokolov’s […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Hightouch, a data and AI platform for marketing and personalization, has raised an $80 million Series C at a valuation of $1.2 billion. The round was led by Rajeev Dham at Sapphire Ventures, with participation from NVC, ICONIQ Growth, Amplify Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, and Y Combinator. The investment will help drive adoption of the company’s AI Decisioning […]
SAN FRANCISCO – District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that Taylor Ross (27), and Eureeka Abrams (29), have been charged in connection to a stolen car and police evasion incident on Sunday February 9, 2025. Ms. Ross and Ms. Abrams are scheduled to be arraigned on February 13, 2025, at 1:30 PM in Department 10 at […]
Related California has unveiled The Clara, a 22-story luxury residential development in the heart of Santa Clara’s The Clara District. Designed by architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson with interiors by AvroKO and landscape design by Surfacedesign, Inc., The Clara is positioned to offer an unrivaled residential experience in Silicon Valley. Pricing for studios start from […]
REDWOOD CITY — Zuora, Inc., a subscription management platform for businesses, has been acquired by Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing, in partnership with an affiliate of GIC Pte., for $10.00 per share in cash. With the completion of the acquisition, Zuora’s Class A common stock will cease trading and the Company will […]
SAN JOSE – PayPal is now a checkout option for all U.S.-based cruise reservations operated by Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. Now, travelers looking to cruise with Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises, can benefit from the ease, simplicity and security of paying with PayPal when booking their next travel experience. […]
PALO ALTO & JÜLICH, Germany — D-Wave Quantum — a provider of quantum computing systems, software, and services — has sold a Quantum Computer to Germany’s Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ). becoming the first high-performance computing (HPC) center in the world to own a D-Wave Advantage annealing quantum computing system. With the […]
IRVINE, CA — Rivian Automotive announced it is opening sales for the Rivian Commercial van to fleets of all sizes in the US. The Rivian Commercial Van is the platform on which Amazon’s custom electric delivery van (EDV) is based, and is designed from the ground up, prioritizing safety, driver comfort, total cost of ownership […]