Rashi Shrivastava

This was all found in hundreds of emails obtained via public records requests for comms between various police departments and Amazon's law enforcement and school safety lead, an ex-cop himself.

Yes, Amazon has also been pushing AI surveillance at schools.

Legal AI Startup Legora Is In Talks To Raise Funding At A $1.8 Billion Valuation Just four months after its Series B funding round, the Stockholm-based legal AI startup is picking up more capital.

SCOOP: Legal AI startup Legora is in talks to raise funding at $1.8 billion valuation, multiple sources told Forbes. The startup is raising between $100 million to $150 million, one of the sources said. With @iainmartin.bsky.social.
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Former Meta Researchers Are Building An AI Math Whiz Axiom Math, which has recruited top talent from Meta, has raised $64 million in seed funding to build an AI math whiz.

NEW: Axiom Math, a nascent startup that's developing an AI math whiz, has poached top tier AI talent— largely from Meta. Founded by 24-year-old Stanford dropout Carina Hong, it's raised $64 million in seed funding from B Capital, Greycroft and others.

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My TikTok book is out in stores today!

Why should you read it? Because 1 in 5 Americans now get their news from this thing. We should all understand how it works.

It was inevitable that strongmen would seek to control a tool this powerful. The book is the story of what happened when they did.

Will TikTok’s Parent Company's Other Apps, Be Saved, Or Banned? U.S. law requires a ban of CapCut, Gauth, Lemon8, Coze, and many other ByteDance- owned apps, unless they are sold in the TikTok deal that President Trump announced today.

Just checkin in about the fate of CapCut and a bunch of other apps that millions of Americans use

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Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Is A Gift To European AI Startups Hiring foreign workers just got more expensive for American tech companies. But that’s opened up new recruiting opportunities for non-U.S. AI startups.

NEW: Trump's $100,000 H1-B fee is a "blessing in disguise" for European AI startups that need more senior level talent, founders say. The "human tariff" will likely impact early stage US startups that use equity for compensation. With
@richardnieva.bsky.social.

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Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Is A Gift To European AI Startups Hiring foreign workers just got more expensive for American tech companies. But that’s opened up new recruiting opportunities for non-U.S. AI startups.

We chatted with European startup founders who think Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee could be a boon for the region: “We almost say thank you to Trump, in a way. He’s really helping us keep our talent.” With @rashis.bsky.social
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This Research Lab Is Giving AI A Better Memory Plus: The biggest AI infrastructure deal in history.

The “dirty secret” in the field of AI is that it's humans that are making choices about what data AI models ingest to answer questions, not machines, Manifest AI cofounders said. The research lab claims its new model architecture can help fix that.

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Nvidia Keeps Minting New Coreweave-Style AI Data Center Unicorns Nscale, a tiny London-based startup, just landed $500 million in backing from AI chip giant Nvidia to help build a massive data centers for OpenAI in the U.K. and Europe.

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang just bet $500 million that a tiny data center startup can become a British rival to Coreweave. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

2/ A closer look at financials here: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

3/ The core of what's at risk here, and how CoreWeave's cofounders are thinking about it: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

New @forbes.com magazine cover story—from @rashis.bsky.social and me—is our take on #CoreWeave, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the #AI boom. It's a fascinating firm built on bold bets, complex risk & no shortage of luck. Would love to hear what you think:

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How CoreWeave’s GPU Bet Made Four Risk-Loving Cryptominers AI Billionaires Creative financing and an enormous appetite for risk helped CoreWeave’s Michael Intrator ride the AI data center boom to a $6.7 billion personal fortune. But as bubble fears mount, his reliance on bil...

But up ahead is a laundry list of challenges: deepening debt, high interest rates, rivals fast encroaching on its turf, and local opposition to a new facility in Pennsylvania. “You’re gonna break things along the way,” cofounder Brannin McBee says. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

How CoreWeave’s GPU Bet Made Four Risk-Loving Cryptominers AI Billionaires Creative financing and an enormous appetite for risk helped CoreWeave’s Michael Intrator ride the AI data center boom to a $6.7 billion personal fortune. But as bubble fears mount, his reliance on bil...

Intrator helped pioneer GPU-backed financing that helped CoreWeave borrow $29 billion to fund the buildout of its infrastructure. The scale is the secret sauce, says cofounder Brian Venturo. “The capital intensity of this business is all that matters.”

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How CoreWeave’s GPU Bet Made Four Risk-Loving Cryptominers AI Billionaires Creative financing and an enormous appetite for risk helped CoreWeave’s Michael Intrator ride the AI data center boom to a $6.7 billion personal fortune. But as bubble fears mount, his reliance on bil...

A series of bold bets and calculated risks helped Michael Intrator turn @CoreWeave from a no-name crypto miner into a $50 billion company, serving compute to the likes of OpenAI and Microsoft. Elated to share my latest @forbes.com cover story with @pheebini.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Bizarre AI Generated Anti-Trump Videos Are Getting Billions Of Views On YouTube Violent slapstick videos that glamorize dictators and dunk on Trump have become some of the most watched political content on YouTube in 2025.

Friends, let me introduce you to a new, truly wild genre of YouTube vids

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This AI Startup Is Training The Next Generation Of Accountants Plus: Travel chatbot gives out a Molotov cocktail recipe.

NEW: Accordance, which is building an AI tool for accountants and tax professionals, has raised $13 million in funding from top VCs like Khosla Ventures. The industry is facing a massive shortage and CEO David Yue is betting that AI can fill the gaps.

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Sam Altman Is Selling His Most Valuable Known Property The listing comes as OpenAI gears up for an astronomical employee share sale that could make many in OpenAI’s ranks rich enough to afford the mansion.

The listing comes as #OpenAI gears up for an astronomical employee share sale that could make many in OpenAI’s ranks rich enough to afford the mansion.

Scoop for @forbes.com:

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Intel Worked With Chinese Firms Sanctioned For Enabling Human Rights Abuses As the U.S. government takes a 10% stake in Intel, Forbes has learned the tech company partnered with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms Uniview, Hikvision and Cloudwalk.

Intel has been touting partnerships with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms as Trump announces that the USG is taking a stake in the company:

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How Meta Lost Its Way With AI Talent At Meta, a chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to brain drain, with rivals saying its AI talent is lackluster. But Zuckerberg’s frenzied hiring spree hasn’t stopped the departures.

Two former Meta AI employees described the culture within the company's GenAI org as "chaotic." Senior leaders disagreed on technical approaches, teams were given overlapping mandates and people fought for credit, they said.
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How Meta Lost Its Way With AI Talent At Meta, a chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to brain drain, with rivals saying its AI talent is lackluster. But Zuckerberg’s frenzied hiring spree hasn’t stopped the departures.

Before its high profile, billion-dollar recruitment blitz, the Facebook-parent employed some of the best AI researchers including founders of startups like Perplexity, Mistral and World Labs.
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How Meta Lost Its Way With AI Talent At Meta, a chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to brain drain, with rivals saying its AI talent is lackluster. But Zuckerberg’s frenzied hiring spree hasn’t stopped the departures.

Insiders at some of Silicon Valley’s biggest AI companies say that prior to the fresh hiring of the last few months, the “prevailing belief” has been that Meta didn’t have much AI talent left to poach from.
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How Meta Lost Its Way With AI Talent At Meta, a chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to brain drain, with rivals saying its AI talent is lackluster. But Zuckerberg’s frenzied hiring spree hasn’t stopped the departures.

Meta has seen a significant brain drain among its AI talent in recent years, largely due to a chaotic culture and lack of vision, ex Meta AI employees told Forbes. Even amid a hiring spree, Meta continues to lose AI researchers. With @richardnieva.bsky.social.

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Fear Of AGI Is Driving Harvard And MIT Students To Drop Out AGI — a theoretical AI that can do many of the same tasks as humans can — could come within a decade. College students, including from elite universities, are abandoning school now to work full-time o...

AGI might come soon. I talked to students who have dropped out of college now because of it: www.forbes.com/sites/victor...

AI Coding Startup Cognition In Talks To Raise At $10 Billion Valuation The deal, backed by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, comes as the startup announced it is buying up the remains of rival Windsurf.

SCOOP: AI coding startup Cognition, which recently acquired Windsurf, is in talks to raise north of $300 million at a $10 billion valuation, according to sources familiar. Founders Fund and KV are involved. With @richardnieva.bsky.social and @iainmartin.bsky.social.

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The Prompt: VCs Aren’t Happy About AI Founders Jumping Ship For Big Tech Plus: AI Coding Agent Goes Rogue.

VCs aren’t happy about AI founders jumping ship for big tech, leaving behind "carcasses" of companies. Some say it could impact the value of equity as a part of pay packages at startups.

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OpenEvidence Cofounder Daniel Nadler Is Now A Billionaire. Daniel Nadler started OpenEvidence to help physicians sort through a deluge of medical research. Now, he’s raised $210 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.

AI search tool OpenEvidence is already used by 40% of doctors in the U.S. Now it's raised $210 million from GV and Kleiner Perkins at a $3.5 billion. That investment makes CEO Daniel Nadler a billionaire by Forbes estimates. With @amyfeldman7.bsky.social.

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AI Startup LangChain Is In Talks To Raise $100 Million The startup, which sources say is raising at a $1.1 billion valuation, helps developers at companies like Klarna and Rippling use off-the-shelf AI models to create new applications.

Scoop: AI startup LangChain, which helps developers build apps using the latest AI models, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1.1 billion valuation, according to sources familiar with the deal. IVP is leading the deal, sources said.

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Elon Musk’s Robotaxi Dream Could Be A Liability Nightmare The company has avoided major legal problems for fatal accidents involving its partially automated Autopilot and FSD features. An autonomous ride service changes that.

NEW: Elon Musk pitches Tesla robotaxis as a huge revenue opportunity for the company. It also brings new liability risks—including for Tesla owners who Airbnb their cars on a company-operated network #Tesla www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

This Secretive Company Built An Empire By Hawking Bad Financial And Health Advice On Facebook The Agora Companies, sued by the SEC, FTC, and two state AGs, reach hundreds of millions of people across social media with misleading promises of wealth and wellness.

New from me! An investigation into the "1.5bn+ company" known as The Agora, which sells misleading health and investing advice to seniors, and which was one of Meta's largest political advertisers this year (until many of their pages went down after this story).

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