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Investors are betting there’s room for another startup that uses artificial intelligence to help software engineers write code faster. The difference with Kilo Code is that it counts the previous one. GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij is also one of the founders.On Wednesday, Kilo Code announced $8 million in seed funding with support from Breakers, Kota Capital, General Catalyst, Quiet Capital, and Tokyo Black.Sijbrandij is a self-taught developer who helped popularize the GitLab tool for source code collaboration, deployment, and testing. GitLab went public in 2021 and is valued at over $6 billion. Sijibrandai stepped down as CEO last year to…
london — British photographer Mark Mescone spent four days trekking through Rwanda’s Virunga Mountains in search of gorillas, and his patience and determination finally paid off. There he met a young male gorilla who was willing to show off his dancing skills. Mescone captured it on camera and won the top prize at this year’s Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards. “One young man was particularly enthusiastic about displaying his acrobatic talents, including pirouetting, tumbling and high kicks. It was a pure joy to watch him perform, and I’m thrilled to be able to capture his playfulness in this image,” Mescone said…
Indonesia and USA flags together area textile cloth fabric textureOleksiy Liskoni | iStock | Getty ImagesA trade deal between Indonesia and the United States is at risk of collapsing as Washington officials believe Jakarta will withdraw from the terms of the deal, according to the Financial Times. The report cited people familiar with the matter as saying on Tuesday that U.S. Trade Representative Jamison Greer believes Indonesia is “backtracking” on some of the commitments it has made.Indonesian officials are reportedly reluctant to agree to the binding commitments made in the agreement and have informed the USTR of their reluctance. The…
The Starcloud-1 satellite will launch into space from a SpaceX rocket on November 2, 2025.Provided by: SpaceX | Star CloudNvidiaStarCloud, a startup backed by , has trained artificial intelligence models from space for the first time, signaling the arrival of a new era of orbital data centers that can alleviate Earth’s escalating digital infrastructure crisis. Last month, the Washington-based company launched a satellite equipped with an Nvidia H100 graphics processing unit, sending a chip into space that is 100 times more powerful than any GPU computing ever in space. The company’s Starcloud-1 satellite is currently running and querying for responses…
The daughter of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Colina Machado accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize in Norway on behalf of her mother, who was unable to attend the ceremony in person, and spoke out about the country’s fight for democracy. The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who has been living in hiding, was scheduled to attend Wednesday’s award ceremony in Oslo, defying a decade-long travel ban. Wednesday’s statement suggested she would still be in Oslo at some point, although she did not attend the ceremony. “I’m in Oslo. I’m on my way to Oslo,” Machado, 58, said in an audio recording…
Former player Tatiana Henni has been appointed as the new CEO, making her the first female manager in the Bundesliga.Published December 10, 2025December 10, 2025Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareFormer Swiss international and experienced football administrator Tatiana Henni was appointed to the post by RB Leipzig on Wednesday, becoming the first female CEO of a Bundesliga club.Haenni has decades of experience as a player and has held various positions in women’s football for over a decade with world governing body FIFA.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listBefore retiring earlier this year, she held positions including head of…
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Naveen Rao, former head of AI at Databricks, has raised $475 million in seed capital for his new startup Unconventional AI at a valuation of $4.5 billion. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Ventures, with participation from Lux Capital and DCVC. The funding is the first installment toward the round’s goal of up to $1 billion, Rao told Bloomberg. TechCrunch first reported in October that Unconventional AI was seeking this huge funding for Rao’s new startup, but the final valuation was slightly lower than the $5 billion that sources said he was seeking. If he ends up…
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on October 29, 2025, in New York City, USA, as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s press conference after announcing the Fed’s interest rate cut is shown on a screen. Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersLONDON – European stock markets were mixed on Wednesday as global investors braced for the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision.pan-european Stocks 600 Immediately after the opening bell it was flat, with most major indexes showing little sign of movement, while regional sectors traded mixed. delivery hero Shares rose 6% after the company said it…
This year has been a very good year for CoreWeave. In March, the AI cloud infrastructure provider went public in one of the year’s biggest and most anticipated IPOs, but it failed to live up to the hype. A further setback occurred in October when a plan to acquire the cloud provider’s business partner Core Scientific fell through due to skepticism from the target company’s shareholders. During that time, the company has acquired various companies, its stock price has gone up and down, and its role in the burgeoning AI data center market has been both criticized and praised. In…