Paraform, which operates a hiring marketplace with AI-powered candidate relationship management and other tools, raised a $20M Series A led by Felicis (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2025/06/paraform-raises-20m-in-series-a-funding.html
After training, we finetune on real-world data. We observe that the models that have been pre-trained with noise converge very quickly compared to a baseline which is trained from scratch.
Moreover, on the other datasets, the UP models retain their zero-shot performance during finetuning. This suggests that there may be a generalization benefit to using a UP model.
All this is at the expense of much longer training, but that cost can be amortized over many tasks.
Trump Reportedly Cuts Funding for Publisher of Prestigious Nature Journals and Scientific American Magazine
https://gizmodo.com/trump-reportedly-cuts-funding-for-publisher-of-prestigious-nature-journals-and-scientific-american-magazine-2000620234
FCC Chairman: President Trump is fundamentally reshaping the media landscape (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/07/25/fcc-chairman-president-trump-is-fundamentally-reshaping-the-media-landscape.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p1#a250726p1
Centific, an AI "data foundry" that works with businesses to develop, train, and deploy their AI models, raised a $60M Series A led by Granite Asia (Nicholas Gordon/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/asia/2025/06/25/centi…
A brutal – not beautiful bill – cuts CFPB funding in half
https://chicagocrusader.com/a-brutal-not-beautiful-bill-cuts-cfpb-funding-in-half/
Recent grads and PhDs are being recruited by AI companies like Handshake to provide specialized training data in fields like music and law for $30-$160 per hour (Emma Haidar/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-24/col…