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CommanderAI says it’s building the Salesforce for the waste management industry

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David Berg learned a lot about the waste management industry by driving a garbage truck around the country as the first employee at Ohio-based Brattle Motors.  He discovered that despite the sheer number of sales prospecting platforms, selling to the waste management industry is still an offline endeavor.   “All of them had a unanimous way of going to […]

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A year after filing to IPO, still-private Cerebras Systems raises $1.1B

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Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems raised a new round of private financing despite its previous plan be trading on the public market by 2025.   Silicon Valley-based Cerebras announced it raised a $1.1 billion Series G round on Tuesday that valued the AI hardware company at $8.1 billion. The round was co-led by Fidelity and Atreides Management with participation from Tiger Global, Valor Equity Partners, and 1789 Capital, among others.   Cerebras,

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Databricks will bake OpenAI models into its products in $100M bet to spur enterprise adoption

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Databricks said on Thursday that it is incorporating OpenAI’s models, including GPT-5, into its data platform as well as its AI product, Agent Bricks, as part of a $100 million multi-year deal that bets on the AI company’s ability to bring in enterprise customers. The deal highlights the accelerating race to bring generative AI into

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Oracle is reportedly looking to raise $15B in corporate bond sale

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Oracle is reportedly looking to raise funds just weeks after the company inked an historic AI infrastructure deal with OpenAI.   Cloud infrastructure giant Oracle is looking to raise $15 billion through corporate bond sales, according to reporting from Bloomberg, citing sources. The sale could include up to seven different parts, with the potential for one said part to be an uncommon 40-year bond, Bloomberg reported.   TechCrunch reached out

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Google Cloud’s COO isn’t stressed about landing the AI giants

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This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch Editor in Chief Connie Loizos is joined by Francis deSouza, the renowned entrepreneur, operator, and, since January, COO of Google Cloud. They discuss his goals for Google Cloud and how the company maintains its competitive position by focusing on startups while giants like AWS and Oracle snap up major

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Oracle promotes two presidents to co-CEO role

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Oracle is shaking up its executive suite as it sets its sights set on AI infrastructure dominance. The company announced Monday that it is promoting Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-CEO roles.   Magouyrk joined Oracle in 2014 from Amazon Web Services. He was a founding member of Oracle’s cloud engineering team and has served as the president of Oracle’s cloud infrastructure business unit for more than

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Earthmover wants to become the Snowflake of weather and geospatial data

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Few things generate as much data as simply observing the Earth from above. But Ryan Abernathey and Joe Hamman very quickly realized that all that data still wasn’t enough for their startup to thrive. Their data-centric, climate tech startup, Earthmover, would need to pivot. The pivot isn’t entirely away from climate tech, though. Instead, the

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How AI startups are fueling Google’s booming cloud business

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Google Cloud announced Thursday it has added fast-rising AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf to its roster of customers. Both companies have chosen Google Cloud as their primary cloud computing provider, the latest sign of Google’s rising prominence against larger rivals AWS and Microsoft Azure. The deals also highlight Google’s efforts to make its cloud

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Thomas Wolf of Hugging Face on the Future of Open AI at Disrupt 2025

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AI is moving fast — but who decides how it’s built, shared, and scaled? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West, we’re diving in with Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face, for a session on what it takes to make cutting-edge research and models truly open

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Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B

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Productivity software giant Atlassian is making its largest acquisition yet to add a developer productivity tool to its product suite.   Atlassian announced Thursday it has agreed to acquire the developer productivity insight platform DX for $1 billion in cash and restricted stock. Enterprises use DX to analyze how productive their engineering teams are and identify bottlenecks slowing them down. DX was launched five years ago by Abi Noda

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