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Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded early last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is in discussions to raise $1 billion at a valuation of at least $40 billion, The Information reported Thursday. Existing backer Accel is in talks to lead the fundraise, according to our

Delivery Hero’s board has signed off on Uber’s $15 billion takeover offer and recommended shareholders approve the deal, which would create one of the largest on-demand food delivery platforms in the world.

AI training-data startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion. This just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April.

The popular prediction market Polymarket has raised $300 million from 1789 Capital as part of a new funding round totaling around $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources.

The game of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines who left the company earlier this year to rejoin OpenAI, has found yet another job.

After adding support for longer videos just yesterday, open social network Bluesky on Thursday introduced a new algorithmic opt-out feature that allows users to stop their posts from appearing in the app’s main Discover feed.