Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Figure, which is building a humanoid robot that took its first step in less than a year, raised a $70M Series A led by Parkway, after a self-financed $100M seed  —  I spent a bit of time at Figure’s Sunnyvale offices during a recent visit to the South Bay.  The firm is currently … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Istanbul-based AI marketing startup Insider raised $105M at a nearly $2B valuation, up from $1.22B in its March 2022 Series D, taking its total funding to $274M  —  Insider, a Turkish artificial intelligence-backed marketing platform, was valued at almost $2 billion in a funding round … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adi Robertson / The Verge: Hands-on with Sudowrite’s Story Engine, a generative AI tool for writing long-form fiction novels that works better than expected but still has big limitations  —  Thoughts are swarming my mind like a nest of cyber-rats. … Last week, generative fiction tool Sudowrite launched a system for writing whole novels. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: Poolside, co-founded by ex-GitHub CTO Jason Warner to build a “subsystem” for AI services like GitHub’s Copilot and Replit’s Ghostwriter, raised a $26M seed  —  Warner steps back from Redpoint to lead Poolside.  Redpoint leads seed round.  —  ∙ Paid Lees verder op Tech Meme

Misha Savic / Bloomberg: A Montenegro court overturns a lower court’s decision that would have let Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon be released on €400K bail; Do Kwon remains in jail  —  A Montenegrin court has annulled a lower court’s decision under which former crypto mogul and Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon would be released on bail. Lees verder op Tech Meme