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AfterQuery, which sells coding and financial training data to AI labs, says it has raised a $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation and has reached an annual run rate of more than $100 million (Anna Tong/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 10, 2026

Anna Tong / Forbes: AfterQuery, which sells coding and financial training data to AI labs, says it has raised a…

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Source: Meta laid off about 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit on Wednesday, as well as some in recruiting, sales and Facebook (Eli Tan/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 25, 2026

Eli Tan / New York Times: Source: Meta laid off about 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit on Wednesday,…

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Meta confirms its intention to lay off staff; sources say this affects a few hundred people within Reality Labs, its social media teams, recruiting and some sales positions (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 25, 2026

Jyoti Mann / The information: Meta confirms its intention to lay off staff; sources say this affects a few hundred…

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Memo: Meta hires founders and team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents; co-founder Hugo Barra joins Meta Superintelligence Labs (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 23, 2026

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Memo: Meta hires founders and team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents; co-founder Hugo…

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Reality Labs lost more than $80 billion, but it still makes all of Meta’s hardware and reflects Mark Zuckerberg’s desire to run a company without Google or Apple as intermediaries (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 23, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The art of influence: the most important skill that AI cannot replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow,…

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Yann LeCun’s Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs has raised $1.03 billion at a pre-money valuation of $3.5 billion to work on global models, in Europe’s largest ever seed round (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 10, 2026

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How Sierra is getting ahead in the AI race | Co-founder Bret Taylor Grit explores what it…

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AI Labs Launch Tools to Help Users Set Up OpenClaw, a Shenzhen District Drafts Policies to Support AI Agents, and More (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 9, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The Most Successful AI Company You’ve Never Heard Of | Qasar Younes Interviews with world-class product…

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Meta recently hired the engineering team from Atma Sciences, the company behind mood coding app Gizmo, to join its superintelligence labs (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 5, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: Flock Safety’s Garrett Langley on creating technology to solve crime Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews founders,…

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Ayar Labs, which replaces copper wiring in semiconductors with optical fiber, raised a $500 million Series E led by Neuberger Berman at a valuation of $3.8 billion (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 3, 2026

Featured Podcasts Acquired: Formula 1 Discover the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies and how you can apply them…

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The administrator responsible for shutting down Terraform Labs is suing Jane Street, alleging she engaged in insider trading to profit from and ultimately accelerate Terraform’s collapse (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 24, 2026

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How Malwarebytes is protecting millions in the age of AI scams | Marcin Kleczynski Grit explores what…

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Five Chinese technology and advanced manufacturing companies launched their listings in Hong Kong today to raise up to $5.6 billion, led by Apple supplier Luxshare’s $3.15 billion offering (Reuters)

Australia’s ACCC is suing Amazon for allegedly introducing ads on Prime Video under unfair contractual terms and forcing existing subscribers to pay more to avoid them (Peter Vercoe/Bloomberg)

Google says the Gemini app now offers custom Nano Banana image generation, previously limited to Plus, Pro and Ultra users, for free to eligible US users (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

As a new law prohibits the DOD from working with companies whose lobbyists also represent blacklisted entities, DC lobbying firms are abandoning companies like Alibaba and Tencent (Bloomberg).

Quantifind, whose AI products help banks combat financial crimes such as money laundering, raised $200 million led by Summit Partners (Laura Kreutzer/Wall Street Journal)

Browsing: Labs

AfterQuery, which sells coding and financial training data to AI labs, says it has raised a $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation and has reached an annual run rate of more than $100 million (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Source: Meta laid off about 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit on Wednesday, as well as some in recruiting, sales and Facebook (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Meta confirms its intention to lay off staff; sources say this affects a few hundred people within Reality Labs, its social media teams, recruiting and some sales positions (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

Memo: Meta hires founders and team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents; co-founder Hugo Barra joins Meta Superintelligence Labs (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Reality Labs lost more than $80 billion, but it still makes all of Meta’s hardware and reflects Mark Zuckerberg’s desire to run a company without Google or Apple as intermediaries (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)

Yann LeCun’s Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs has raised $1.03 billion at a pre-money valuation of $3.5 billion to work on global models, in Europe’s largest ever seed round (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

AI Labs Launch Tools to Help Users Set Up OpenClaw, a Shenzhen District Drafts Policies to Support AI Agents, and More (Bloomberg)

Meta recently hired the engineering team from Atma Sciences, the company behind mood coding app Gizmo, to join its superintelligence labs (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)

Ayar Labs, which replaces copper wiring in semiconductors with optical fiber, raised a $500 million Series E led by Neuberger Berman at a valuation of $3.8 billion (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

The administrator responsible for shutting down Terraform Labs is suing Jane Street, alleging she engaged in insider trading to profit from and ultimately accelerate Terraform’s collapse (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)