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Scale AI lays off 14% of staff, largely in data-labeling business

AIMPWAJuly 16, 2025

Data-labeling startup Scale AI is laying off 200 employees, roughly 14% of its staff, and cutting ties with 500 of its global contractors, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The cuts come just a month after Meta hired Scale AI’s CEO in a $14.3 billion deal. In a memo obtained by Bloomberg, interim CEO Jason Droege told...

Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics with $80M to automate construction

AIMPWAJuly 16, 2025

Bedrock Robotics, an autonomous vehicle technology startup founded by veterans of Waymo and Segment, has been operating quietly for more than a year. Now, it’s breaking cover with an $80 million funding round from investors Eclipse and 8VC. Bedrock Robotics is focused on developing a self-driving kit that can be retrofitted to construction and other...

Transit software startup Via confidentially files for an IPO

AIMPWAJuly 16, 2025

Via, the transit software startup that garnered attention for its consumer-facing on-demand shuttle service, said it has filed confidentially for an initial public offering. Via has been batting around plans for an IPO for years. The company filed confidentially for an IPO in 2021, but never took the next official and regulatory steps to enter...

A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs

AIMPWAJuly 16, 2025

The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. So far this year, more than 22,000 workers have been the victim of reductions across the tech industry, with a staggering 16,084 cuts taking place in February alone. We’re...

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Rex Salisbury’s Cambrian Ventures raises new fund, bucking fintech slowdown

AIMPWAJuly 16, 2025

Rex Salisbury, the solo GP behind Cambrian Ventures, fondly recalls the time he fell in love with fintech. The year was 2015, he had recently left his job as an investment banker to try his hand on engineering at a mortgage startup. “That’s when you had companies like Stripe, Plaid, Credit Karma, Wealthfront starting to...

Hugging Face bets on cute robots to bring open-source AI to life

AIMPWAJuly 16, 2025

Just five days after opening up orders on its Reachy Mini robots, AI developer platform Hugging Face says it has logged $1 million worth of sales. That’s not a bad start for a company that’s just recently expanded into robotics, and is largely known for letting developers download open source AI models off the internet....

FISME And BEE Join Hands To Promote Energy Efficiency In MSMEs Under ADEETIE Scheme

AIMPWAJuly 16, 2025

New Delhi, Jul 16 (KNN) The Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises (FISME) and the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on July 15, 2025, to support the adoption of energy-efficient technologies across various MSME clusters in India. The agreement, signed by R P Singh, Policy Director, FISME...

Centre Launches Rs 1,000 Crore ADEETIE Scheme to Boost Energy Efficiency in MSMEs

AIMPWAJuly 16, 2025

New Delhi, Jul 16 (KNN) The Central Government has introduced a Rs 1,000 crore scheme to help micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) shift to energy-efficient technologies through financial and technical support. Named ADEETIE (Assistance in Deploying Energy Efficient Technologies in Industries and Establishments), the scheme was launched by Power Minister Manohar Lal in Panipat,...

CPSEs Procure 42% from MSEs in FY26 Surpassing Mandatory Target

AIMPWAJuly 16, 2025

New Delhi, Jul 16 (KNN) Public sector purchases from Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) continue to grow in 2025–26, with Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) sourcing 42.2 per cent of their total procurement from MSEs—well above the mandatory 25 per cent target and significantly higher than 35 per cent achieved in 2024–25. Out of the...

Auriga Space raises $6M to shoot rockets off an electromagnetic launch track

AIMPWAJuly 16, 2025

While U.S.-based companies are launching more payloads into orbit than ever before, they’re still limited by the inefficiency of conventional rockets. With rockets, most of the weight is in the propellant, not the payload, and a huge portion of it is burned simply battling Earth’s gravity and atmosphere. Auriga Space is aiming to change the...

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Former Googlers AI startup OpenArt now creates ‘brainrot’ videos in just one click

AIMPWAAugust 8, 2025

AI-generated “brainrot” videos are popping up all over the internet and getting a lot of attention. Currently gaining traction among younger users, these clips feature wild characters, like a shark wearing sneakers and a ballerina with a cappuccino for a head. One startup driving this trend is OpenArt, founded by two former Google employees in...

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Book your exhibit table before your competitor does at Disrupt 2025

AIMPWAAugust 8, 2025

TechCrunch Disrupt isn’t just a tech conference — it’s a launchpad. For 20 years, startups have come to TechCrunch Disrupt to meet their first investors, land their biggest partnerships, and spark the idea that takes them to the next level. In 2025, that launchpad could be your exhibit table. With tables selling fast, now is...

OpenAI priced GPT-5 so low, it may spark a price war

AIMPWAAugust 8, 2025

OpenAI astounded the tech industry for the second time this week by launching its newest flagship model, GPT-5, just days after releasing two new freely available models under an open source license. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went so far as to call GPT-5 “the best model in the world.” That may be pride or hyperbole,...

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AIMPWAAugust 8, 2025

A surge of imports in the United States in the first quarter ahead of widely anticipated tariff hikes contributed to the upward revision to the forecast for 2025 issued in the April Global Trade Outlook and Statistics report. Increased tariffs—including those that took effect this week—will dampen trade in the second half of 2025 and...

Meta acquires AI audio startup WaveForms

AIMPWAAugust 8, 2025

Meta has acquired AI voice startup WaveForms for an undisclosed sum, The Information reports. It’s the company’s latest buy to strengthen its new AI unit, Superintelligence Labs, and Meta’s second major AI audio acquisition in the last month after it bought PlayAI. WaveForms, founded just eight months ago, raised $40 million from Andreessen Horowitz in...

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