(Reuters) - AI startup Nomic has raised $17 million in a new funding round from investors led by Coatue, the companies told Reuters. The investment valued New York-based Nomic AI, a team of four at the time, at $100 million,…
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By Anna Tong SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In a frenzy unseen since the birth of social media in the early 2000s, investors are pouring billions into generative AI and fueling a startup boom in San Francisco. At the same time, they…
(Reuters) -Walt Disney wants to keep ESPN and will look for strategic partners to form a joint venture or buy a stake in the sports network to help take it directly to consumers, CEO Robert Iger said on Thursday in…
By Granth Vanaik (Reuters) -U.S. online sales during Amazon.com's Prime Day shopping event rose 6.1% to $12.7 billion from last year, as inflation-hit Americans hunted for discounts on the e-commerce platform, Adobe Analytics data on Thursday showed. Shoppers spent $6.3…
(Reuters) - Virgin Galactic Holdings said on Thursday that the space tourism startup will launch its second commercial flight in a window that opens next month after a successful first flight in June. The firm is among the few U.S.-based…
(Reuters) -Twitter has filed a lawsuit against four unnamed entities in Texas for data scraping last week, a move that showed why the Elon Musk-owned social network recently placed daily limits on the number of tweets a user could read.…
By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) - Crypto crime fell overall in the first six months of 2023, but the volume of payments to ransomware attackers surged and is on track for its second-biggest annual total on record, blockchain analytics firm…
By Ananya Mariam Rajesh, Granth Vanaik and Arriana McLymore (Reuters) -Amazon.com's Prime Day two-day shopping event saw U.S. online sales rise nearly 6% to $6.4 billion from a year ago on its first day, as heavy discounts lured bargain-hunting customers…
(Reuters) - Canadian ecommerce firm Shopify said on Wednesday it would soon launch an artificial intelligence assistant for merchants on its platform, the latest technology company to roll out such a feature. The assistant called "Sidekick" would be embedded as…
By Sruthi Shankar and Medha Singh (Reuters) -A "special rebalance" of the Nasdaq 100 index will take place later this month as exchange operator Nasdaq looks to reduce the concentration of heavyweight companies that account for nearly half of the…