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UCSF Chancellor Elected To Facebook Board

Susan Desmond-Hellmann, chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been elected to Facebook’s board of directors. Susan Desmond-Hellmann: Facebook has an ambitious mission...

Badoo Hires Former Google Product Director As COO

Badoo, a social network for meeting new people, has appointed former Google executive Benjamin Ling as COO. Mr. Ling will begin his new role at...

Pin A Tail On Your Robot, Suggests Berkeley Researchers

Why can’t robots balance well? Forget your Steven Pinker (the ghost is so needed in the machine of your choice, no?) University of California,...

Datagen raises $18.5M

Tel Aviv, Israel-based Datagen, a developer of simulated visual data sets to train deep machine learning models, has raised $18.5 million.

IBM scientists observe elusive gravitational effect in solid-state physics

An international team of physicists, materials scientists and string theoreticians have observed a phenomenon on Earth that was previously thought to only occur hundreds...

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Series A

Tembo raises $14M

Cincinnati, Ohio-based Tembo, a Postgres managed service provider, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round.
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Raspberry Pi is now a public company — TC

Raspberry Pi priced its IPO on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday morning at £2.80 per share, valuing it at £542 million, or $690 million at today’s exchange rate, writes Romain Dillet. 
Fundings

AlphaSense raises $650M

AlphaSense, a market intelligence and search platform, has raised $650 million in funding, co-led by Viking Global Investors and BDT & MSD Partners.
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Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B to take on OpenAI — VentureBeat

Confirming reports from April, the series B investment comes from the participation of multiple known venture capital firms and investors, including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (A16z), Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding, writes Shubham Sharma. 
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Capgemini partners with DARPA to explore quantum computing for carbon capture

Capgemini Government Solutions has launched a new initiative with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to investigate quantum computing's potential in carbon capture.