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New episodes of the Emmy Award-winning hit “Carpool Karaoke: The Series” premiered Friday on Apple TV+. This season, the stars — sharing a car, singing along to their personal playlists and embarking on new adventures — will include Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Avril Lavigne, Cedric the Entertainer, Lea Michele, Alison Brie, Darren Criss, Yungblud, […]
Apple announced Self Service Repair is now available for the iPhone 14 lineup and additional Mac models, including the 13-inch MacBook Air and MacBook Pro powered by M2. Since April 2022, Self Service Repair has given anyone with experience repairing electronic devices access to the same manuals, genuine Apple parts, and tools used at Apple […]
Discount carrier Spirit Airlines has launched new, nonstop service from its seventh California airport this month at San José Mineta International Airport (SJC). The launch includes two daily flights to Las Vegas (LAS) and daily flights to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) and San Diego (SAN). It also provides an easy gateway for visitors to fly to […]
OAKLAND –– A total of 77 locally-owned Northern and Central California restaurants will receive a financial boost from the California Restaurant Foundation (CRF) and The PG&E Corporation Foundation (PG&E Foundation) through grants to invest in equipment upgrades, workforce training and more — all intended to help increase their longevity and business success. The PG&E Foundation’s $900,000 charitable contribution to CRF […]
SAN FRANCISCO – MindsDB, one of the fastest-growing open-source AI projects in the world, has announced an additional $25 million financing with new lead investor Mayfield, along with participation from TQ Ventures and existing investor Benchmark Capital, bringing total seed capital raised to $41.5 million and total funds raised to $50 million. With the increasing […]
MENLO PARK — Pear VC says it has closed its 4th fund at $432 million focused on seed ventures. This oversubscribed fund by Pear is one of the largest seed funds raised in recent years, marking a bright spot in an otherwise choppy VC environment. The funding will be used to continue doubling down in one […]
PALO ALTO — Hippocratic AI launched out of stealth this month to announce the industry’s first safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) designed specifically for healthcare, as well as a $50M seed round co-led by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz. Large language models (LLMs) and Foundation Models (FMs) like ChatGPT and GPT-4 have surprised the world with their […]
SANTA CLARA — Ayar Labs, a developer of silicon photonics for chip-to-chip connectivity, has raised an additional $25 million in Series C1 funding, bringing its total Series C raise to $155 million. The oversubscribed up round was led by new investor Capital TEN. VentureTech Alliance also entered the Series C expansion that included participation by […]
SAN FRANCISCO — WireMock has raised $6.5 million in seed funding for WireMock Cloud, the first API developer productivity platform. The funding round was led by Ridge Ventures joined by First Rays Venture Partners and Scribble Ventures alongside several angel investors. Building on the success of its popular open source API mocking tool, WireMock Cloud fixes the struggles of developing for modern, API-rich architectures. […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Volition has secured an $11 million seed round led by Newark Venture Partners and Quiet Capital, with participation from Lachy Groom, Alan Rutledge, Julian Capital, and Humba (Susa) Ventures. Volition is the first and only online industrial parts marketplace designed specifically for the needs of the hardware development world. It aims to accelerate the pace of hardware innovation […]
Tesla will allow customers of a competing automaker to use their network of superchargers starting next year. Ford Motor Company said it reached an agreement with Tesla Motors that will provide Ford electric vehicle customers access to more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers across the U.S. and Canada, doubling the number of fast-chargers available to Ford […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic has raised $450 million in Series C funding led by Spark Capital with participation from Google, Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures, Zoom Ventures, and others. The funding will support the company’s continued work developing helpful, harmless, and honest AI systems—including Claude, an AI assistant that can perform a wide variety of conversational […]