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Mistral Medium 3: Revolutionizing AI Performance and Efficiency

Mistral’s latest AI model, Mistral Medium 3, offers leading performance at a competitive price, challenging giants like Anthropic and Meta in the AI space.

May 7, 2025May 9, 2025
Research & Innovation Society & Ethics Tech Business

Tanka CEO Kisson Lin to Share Insights on AI-Native Startups at Premier Tech Event

Kisson Lin, CEO of Tanka, will discuss the future of AI in startups at a major tech conference, highlighting how AI can revolutionize team efficiency and solopreneurship.

May 6, 2025May 9, 2025
Gadgets & Devices Research & Innovation Tech Business

Unblocked Secures $20M to Simplify Codebase Understanding with AI

Unblocked, an AI-powered tool designed to help developers navigate and understand complex codebases, has raised $20 million in Series A funding.

May 6, 2025May 9, 2025
Gadgets & Devices Research & Innovation Tech Business

Sam Altman’s World ID Eyeball-Scanning Tech Launches in US with Major Market Potential

Tools for Humanity, co-founded by Sam Altman, introduces its World ID eyeball-scanning technology in the US, aiming to verify human identity in an AI-dominated digital world.

May 1, 2025May 9, 2025
Policy & Regulation Research & Innovation Tech Business

Gruve.ai: The AI-Powered Consultancy Disrupting Traditional IT Services with Software-Like Margins

Gruve.ai is revolutionizing the IT consultancy model by leveraging AI to reduce costs and improve efficiency, offering a pay-as-you-go pricing model that challenges decades-old industry standards.

April 30, 2025May 9, 2025
Research & Innovation Society & Ethics Tech Business

Supio Secures $60M to Revolutionize Legal Tech with AI

Supio, an AI-driven platform for legal analysis, has raised $60 million in funding to expand its operations and enhance its market presence, signaling a major shift in legal tech adoption.

April 30, 2025May 9, 2025
Research & Innovation Society & Ethics Tech Business

Dex: The AI Talent Agent Revolutionizing Recruitment with $3.1M Backing from A16z

Dex, a UK startup, is transforming the recruitment landscape with its AI-powered talent agent, securing $3.1M in pre-seed funding led by A16z’s Speedrun fund to enhance job matching and retention.

April 29, 2025May 9, 2025
Research & Innovation Tech Business

19 US AI Startups That Secured $100M+ in Funding During 2025

Discover the 19 groundbreaking US AI startups that have each raised over $100 million in funding during the first half of 2025, signaling a booming AI industry.

April 23, 2025May 9, 2025
Gadgets & Devices Research & Innovation Tech Business

Undergrads Create AI Speech Model Dia to Challenge Google’s NotebookLM 🚀

Two undergrads have developed Dia, an AI model that generates podcast-style clips, offering more control over voices and scripts, rivaling Google’s NotebookLM.

April 22, 2025May 9, 2025
Policy & Regulation Research & Innovation Tech Business

Navigating Geopolitical Risks with AI: How Hence Global Aims to Democratize Access to Critical Business Insights

Hence Global leverages AI to help businesses and service providers monitor and mitigate geopolitical and business risks, offering an affordable alternative to traditional consulting.

April 18, 2025May 9, 2025
Policy & Regulation Research & Innovation Tech Business

Hammerspace Secures $100M Funding to Revolutionize AI Data Management

Hammerspace, a leader in unstructured data management for AI and large enterprises, has raised $100M in funding, valuing the company at over $500M, with plans to expand its innovative data orchestration platform.

April 18, 2025May 9, 2025
Research & Innovation Tech Business

OpenAI Acquires Context.ai Team to Boost AI Model Evaluation Tools 🚀

OpenAI has welcomed the co-founders of Context.ai, a startup specializing in AI model evaluations, marking a strategic move to enhance its developer tools.

April 15, 2025May 9, 2025
Cybersecurity & Privacy Research & Innovation Tech Business

Incident.io Secures $62M Funding to Revolutionize IT Incident Management

Incident.io, a London-based startup, has raised $62 million in Series B funding to enhance its AI-driven platform for faster IT incident management and response, aiming to reduce downtime for businesses.

April 10, 2025May 9, 2025
Research & Innovation Tech Business

Ilya Sutskever’s AI Startup Teams Up with Google Cloud for Superintelligence Research 🔥

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the new AI venture by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, is leveraging Google Cloud’s TPU chips to fast-track its research on safe superintelligent AI systems.

April 9, 2025May 9, 2025
Research & Innovation Society & Ethics Tech Business

MIT Study Debunks AI Value Systems: Why Your Chatbot Isn’t Plotting Against You

Recent MIT research clarifies that AI lacks coherent value systems, challenging earlier claims and highlighting the unpredictability of aligning AI behaviors.

April 9, 2025May 9, 2025
Research & Innovation Tech Business

🚀 Thinking Machines Lab: Ex-OpenAI Titans Fuel AI Startup’s Meteoric Rise

Mira Murati’s AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, secures ex-OpenAI heavyweights as advisors, signaling a major play in the AI space.

April 8, 2025May 9, 2025
Policy & Regulation Research & Innovation Tech Business

Otter.ai’s Meeting Agent: The Future of Productivity or Just Another AI Gimmick? 🚀

Otter.ai launches Meeting Agent, an AI tool that schedules calls and drafts emails, aiming to revolutionize workplace productivity.

April 7, 2025May 9, 2025
EdTech & Learning Research & Innovation Tech Business

Anthropic’s Bold Move: Capturing the EdTech Market with Claude for Education 🚀

Anthropic targets the lucrative education sector with Claude for Education, directly challenging OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu, aiming to double its revenue by 2025.

April 7, 2025May 9, 2025
Tech Business

Phonic AI: The Next Big Bet in Voice Tech? 💰

Phonic AI secures $4M seed funding to revolutionize voice AI with its end-to-end model training approach. Can they scale?

April 6, 2025May 9, 2025
Tech Business

Devin’s Pay-As–You-Go Plan: A Bargain or a Bug? 🚀💸

Cognition’s Devin AI now offers a pay-as-you-go plan, but is it worth the hype or just another overpriced tool?

April 6, 2025May 9, 2025
Cybersecurity & Privacy Research & Innovation Tech Business

Devin AI Disrupts Coding with Pay-As-You-Go Model: A Game-Changer for Startups? 🚀

Cognition’s Devin AI coding tool introduces a budget-friendly pay-as-you-go plan, aiming to make AI-assisted software development more accessible.

April 3, 2025May 9, 2025
Research & Innovation Society & Ethics Tech Business

🚀 Runway’s Gen-4: The $4B AI Video Revolution You Can’t Ignore

Runway introduces Gen-4, a cutting-edge AI model that revolutionizes video generation with unmatched fidelity and consistency.

April 3, 2025May 9, 2025
n8n AI automation platform secures $60M funding to expand globally
Research & Innovation Robotics & Automation Tech Business

🔥 n8n’s AI-Powered Surge: From Open-Source Darling to $60M Funding Powerhouse!

Berlin’s own n8n, the automation startup that’s been turning heads, just scored a massive €55 million (that’s $60 million for

March 24, 2025May 9, 2025
Browser Use team revolutionizing AI-friendly web navigation
Research & Innovation Society & Ethics Tech Business

Browser Use Secures $17M to Revolutionize AI Web Navigation 🔥

Hold onto your hats, folks—Browser Use just dropped a bombshell with a $17 million seed round to make the web

March 24, 2025May 9, 2025
A professional housekeeper using AI-powered tools in a modern apartment
Research & Innovation Robotics & Automation Tech Business

🚀 Faireez Disrupts $100B+ Property Tech Market with AI-Driven Housekeeping—Secures $7.5M Seed Round 💰

Faireez, this plucky NYC startup, is flipping the script on apartment living by injecting a dose of five-star hotel luxury

March 6, 2025May 9, 2025
Research & Innovation Society & Ethics Tech Business

🚀 Mistral Saba: Disrupting the AI Game with Arabic-First Innovation 💰

The AI revolution isn’t just global anymore—it’s getting hyper-local, and guess who’s at the forefront? Mistral, with its latest marvel,

February 17, 2025May 9, 2025
The Beatles' "Now and Then" wins Grammy for Best Rock Performance with AI-assisted restoration
Research & Innovation Society & Ethics Tech Business

🚀 The Beatles & AI: A Grammy-Winning Disruption in Music Tech 💰

Let’s talk about The Beatles—not just as the icons who changed music forever, but as the unexpected trailblazers in the

February 3, 2025May 9, 2025
AI-driven agriculture innovation with data visualization and plant growth concepts
Research & Innovation Society & Ethics Tech Business

🚀 Heritable Agriculture: Google X’s AI Moonshot Poised to Disrupt $Trillion AgriTech Market 💰

Google’s X “moonshot factory” has done it again, dropping a bombshell with Heritable Agriculture. Imagine this: AI and big data

February 3, 2025May 9, 2025
Chinese AI company DeepSeek, already embroiled in allegations of intellectual property theft and European privacy investigations, is now dealing with another major challenge—a trademark dispute in the United States. On Tuesday, DeepSeek submitted an application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to secure the trademark rights for its AI chatbot apps and tools. However, the company was just a little too late. A mere 36 hours earlier, another entity, Delaware-based Delson Group Inc., had already filed for the same trademark—"DeepSeek." A Rival Claim to the Name Delson Group asserts that it has been marketing AI products under the DeepSeek brand since early 2020. The company’s trademark filing lists its headquarters as a residence in Cupertino, California, and names its CEO and founder as Willie Lu. Lu, an alumnus of Zhejiang University—the same institution where DeepSeek's founder, Liang Wenfeng, studied—claims on his LinkedIn profile to be a "semi-retired" consulting professor at Stanford and an advisor to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). His professional background largely revolves around the wireless industry. Intriguingly, Lu also offers a training program called "DeepSeek" in Las Vegas, focused on "AI Super-Intelligence." Priced at $800 per ticket, the course is prominently featured on Delson Group’s website, which is linked to its USPTO trademark application. The website touts Lu’s "30 years of expertise" in AI and ICT (Information and Communications Technology). When contacted via the email address associated with the trademark filing, Lu responded that he would be open to a meeting in Palo Alto or Saratoga. However, he did not reply to any follow-up requests. A Pattern of Trademark Disputes A deeper dive into Delson Group’s history reveals a notable pattern of trademark disputes. A search in the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System lists more than two dozen past conflicts between Delson Group and major organizations, including Tencent, GSMA, and TracFone Wireless. In some cases, Delson abandoned the trademarks or had pending applications canceled. Additionally, a broader USPTO search reveals 28 trademarks registered under Delson Group, including names that belong to major Chinese corporations. These include “Geely,” the well-known Chinese automaker, and “China Mobile,” the Hong Kong-based telecommunications giant. This history suggests that Delson Group may be engaging in trademark squatting—registering trademarks not for business use, but to later sell them or leverage the brand recognition of established companies. Such tactics are not unprecedented. One of the most infamous trademark squatting cases involved Chinese businessman Zhan Baosheng, who registered Tesla’s English name, logo, font, and Chinese transliterated name before the company formally entered China. Tesla later settled the matter for an undisclosed sum. Legal Challenges Ahead for DeepSeek DeepSeek's legal options in this case may be limited. Under U.S. trademark law, priority is generally given to the first entity to use a trademark in commerce. This means that unless DeepSeek can prove bad faith on the part of Delson Group, the latter may have a legitimate claim to the name. “DeepSeek could attempt to negotiate a coexistence agreement if they can prove their AI services differ significantly from those of Delson Group,” said Josh Gerben, an attorney specializing in intellectual property law. “However, Delson has a strong case. They filed first, claim to have used the name since 2020—three years before DeepSeek—and have an active website promoting AI-related events and products.” Gerben further suggested that Delson Group could even file a "reverse confusion" lawsuit. Given DeepSeek’s growing international recognition, Delson might argue that DeepSeek's prominence unfairly overshadows its original claim to the trademark, potentially blocking DeepSeek from using its own brand name in the U.S. Precedents in AI Trademark Disputes This isn’t the first time an AI company has faced legal hurdles over trademarks. OpenAI, for example, attempted to register “GPT” as a trademark but was denied by the USPTO, which ruled the term too generic. OpenAI has also been locked in a legal battle with technologist Guy Ravine, who claims he proposed the name “Open AI” in 2015 as part of an open-source initiative. For DeepSeek, this trademark conflict adds yet another complication to an already tumultuous year. Whether it chooses to fight Delson Group in court, attempt a settlement, or rebrand for the U.S. market remains to be seen.
Policy & Regulation Research & Innovation Tech Business

🚀 DeepSeek’s U.S. Trademark Turmoil: A High-Stakes Battle in the AI Gold Rush 💰

Chinese AI disruptor DeepSeek, already navigating the choppy waters of IP theft allegations and privacy probes in Europe, is now

January 30, 2025April 6, 2025
AI model DeepSeek V3 interface showing mistaken identity as ChatGPT
Research & Innovation Society & Ethics Tech Business

🚀 DeepSeek V3’s Identity Crisis: A Goldmine or a Legal Nightmare for Chinese AI? 💰

DeepSeek V3, the latest AI powerhouse from China, is turning heads not just for its benchmark-crushing performance but for an

December 29, 2024April 6, 2025
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