HeroDevs, which provides support for legacy open-source software, raised $125M from PSG, intends to allocate $20M to its Open Source Sustainability Fund (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/herodevs-rais…
Fünf Jahre Apple Silicon: Der Unterschätzte
Vor fünf Jahren wurde die Umstellung des Macs von Intel-Prozessoren auf Apple Silicon angekündigt. Apple sprach zurecht von einem “historischen Tag”.
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Trunk Tools, which provides AI services to organize construction documentation, raised a $40M Series B led by Insight, bringing its total funding to $70M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/trunk-too…
Leena AI, which develops an employee-facing agentic AI assistant, launches "AI colleagues" that it says can work and interact just like human employees (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/leena-ai-anno…
Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity, launches the nonprofit Laude Institute, self-funded with $100M for grants to AI projects and labs (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/2…
An interview with Nick Clegg about Zuckerberg's "masculine energy", Silicon Valley's "cloying conformity" and "combination of machismo and self-pity", and more (Gaby Hinsliff/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics…
KnowledgeLake, which uses AI and RPA to help organizations automate their work with documents, raised $65M in a majority growth round led by Edison Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/20/kn
Casca, which offers AI-powered tools for banks to accelerate loan application and origination processes, raised a $29M Series A led by Canapi Ventures (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/19/casca-gets-29m-bring-a…
Leaked memo: Intel will shut down its automotive business and lay off "most" employees working in the unit, the latest step in Intel's downsizing (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/silico…