Silicon Valley news and trends

Tariff-Related IPO Delays Leave VCs ‘Trying to Triage’
Markets // April 08, 2025

With several high-profile IPOs in limbo, the venture capital/startup space is in crisis mode. As Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (April 8), 2025 was supposed to be a year in which the environment for initial public offerings (IPOs) flourished. But with President Donald Trump’s new tariffs rocking the...

Inside Citi Ventures’ AI Playbook: From Compliance Automation to Hyper-Personalization
artificial intelligence // March 18, 2025

As Citi’s venture capital arm, Citi Ventures scours a broad swath of startups from around the world to zero in on those that are generally aligned with the banking giant’s business strategy. From that vantage point, Citi Ventures has a good view of the artificial...

Silicon Valley Startup Inception Labs Creates Faster LLM
artificial intelligence // March 10, 2025

A Silicon Valley startup founded by professors from Stanford, UCLA and Cornell has created a new type of large language model that they say is faster, cheaper and higher quality than existing models. Inception Labs developed diffusion large language models that use a technique normally...

Snowflake Plans ‘AI Hub’ and $200 Million in Startup Investments
artificial intelligence // February 27, 2025

Data cloud company Snowflake says it is opening a new Silicon Valley “AI hub.” The new Menlo Park location, announced Thursday (Feb. 27), is designed to give developers, startups and business leaders a place to work on artificial intelligence (AI) efforts. “Our technology is already at the heart of...

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Inside Citi Ventures’ AI Playbook: From Compliance Automation to Hyper-Personalization

March 18, 2025
As Citi’s venture capital arm, Citi Ventures scours a broad swath of startups from around the world to zero in on those that are generally aligned with the banking giant’s business strategy. From that vantage point, Citi Ventures has a good view of the artificial intelligence (AI) advances percolating from the cutting edge of Silicon […]

DeepSeek Open-Source Model Could Shake Up Enterprise AI

January 27, 2025
Shares of Nvidia, the darling stock of the generative AI boom, are down 15.3% in midday trading on Monday (Jan. 27) as Wall Street grapples with the revelation that it...

Yahoo Takeover A Done Deal; Marissa Mayer Bows Out

June 13, 2017
And then, just like that, it was over. As has been widely anticipated and widely reported, Yahoo’s been consumed by Verizon, which is now combining with the AOL properties under...

Quick Reads
British Startups Look to US as Homegrown Funding Grows Scarce

April 13, 2025
British startups are reportedly weighing a move to the U.S. as investment declines. Startups in the U.K. took in just £16.2 billion ($21.1 billion) last year, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (April 13), citing data from Dealroom. That figure, the report said, is the lowest since 2020. At the same time, American tech startups […]

Tariff-Related IPO Delays Leave VCs ‘Trying to Triage’

April 08, 2025
With several high-profile IPOs in limbo, the venture capital/startup space is in crisis mode. As Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (April 8), 2025 was supposed to be a year in which the environment...

Snowflake Plans ‘AI Hub’ and $200 Million in Startup Investments

February 27, 2025
Data cloud company Snowflake says it is opening a new Silicon Valley “AI hub.” The new Menlo Park location, announced Thursday (Feb. 27), is designed to give developers, startups and business leaders a place...

Mistral Reportedly Eyes US Expansion to Take on AI Giants

November 26, 2024
Mistral is reportedly boosting its U.S. expansion to compete with Silicon Valley tech giants. The $6 billion French artificial intelligence (AI) startup — the most valuable in Europe — is building...