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Chapter, a Medicare advisory startup co-founded by former Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, has shut down a $75 million funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation led by private equity and venture farm stripes. The startup will help seniors choose a Medicare health plan that analyzes doctors, hospitals and prescription drug coverage. Unlike many other Medicare insurance brokers, the chapter argues that it prioritizes client needs over insurance companies’ profits. Naraya, a VC company founded by Vice President JD Vance, led the Series A round of chapters in 2020. Peter Thiel, who also invested in the company, took on Vance’s…

Openai is reportedly having a debate on buying Windsurf, an AI coding startup previously known as Codeium, for around $3 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the deal. If the deal is made, it will still be the company’s biggest acquisition. Openai gives a speech to buy Windsurf for around $3 billion This move shows how serious Openai is about growing beyond ChatGpt and guiding deeper developer-focused tools. Windsurf is gaining momentum in its space and offers an AI-assisted coding experience that has attracted the attention of engineers and large companies. “This deal is the largest open acquisition ever…

The Trump administration is considering new restrictions on China’s AI lab Deepseek, which may limit the purchase of Nvidia AI chips and ban Americans from accessing AI services, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The restrictions are part of the Trump administration’s efforts to compete with China on AI. A few months after Deepseek rocked both Silicon Valley and Wall Street, US officials appear to be weighing several options to limit access to American technology in China with consumers. On Tuesday, the White House moved to limit Nvidia’s AI chip sales to more restrictions to China, strengthening rules created by…

Adam Berer told Al Jazeera that he “doesn’t make any progress” with the ceasefire contract until release as Israel’s attacks continue.WASHINGTON, D.C. — Once Hamas releases all remaining prisoners, Israel’s attacks will end on Gaza, a hostage envoy for US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Al Jazeera. “If the hostages are released, we can tell you that the battle will soon end,” said Adam Bohler, the US special envoy for hostage response. “The day those hostages are released, the battle will end.” Bowler’s comments on Wednesday came as at least 1,652 Palestinians have been killed since the…

Another highly value startup has been added to the mix of ongoing legal drama between Rippling and Deel: UK Fintech Giant Revolut. Ireland’s wavy employee Keith O’Brien claimed in his blockbuster affidavit reading as if he was straight from the film that he was paid about $6,000 a month to spy on the ripples. He claimed that the initial $6,000 payment was sent to his turnover account in November 2024 by Alba Basha Westgers, wife of Deal’s COO Dan Westgers. At the time, Alba Basha Westgers worked as a lead at Robinhood for Crypto Compliance, according to a later deleted…

Less than a week after passing ChatGpt’s memory with a major leap to AGI, Openai unveils two new AI models, the O3 and the O4-Mini, calling them “the smartest and most capable models ever.” Both bring new levels of performance across inference tasks and tool integration, making them the most capable release in the ChatGPT lineup so far. These models not only provide improved output. They show a shift in how AI works across tools. They can infer through the problems by using web search, code execution, image interpretation, file reading, and image generation. No manual switching or step-by-step prompts…

Real Madrid’s Champions League defense ends with a 2-1 defeat in Spain by Arsenal.Arsenal beat defending champion Real Madrid 2-1, reaching the Champions League semi-finals for the first time since 2009 in a match where VAR played a key role in two penalty decisions. Arsenal last week went 5-1 in total on Wednesday after a 3-0 victory at home in London, maintaining the chance to win the competition for the top European clubs for the first time. They will face Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-finals. This time there was no historic comeback for Madrid. Santiago Bernabeu Stadium has no slow…

New York (AP) – Showdown There’s a spotlight between the Trump administration and Harvard University Naked politics And big dollar numbers. But in the battle of that moment, it’s easy to lose sight of the decades-long alliance between the US government and the nation’s most prominent universities.For 80 years, its interdependence has been praised by academic leaders and politicians of both parties as a paragon of American discovery and innovation.”In some respects, I think that’s a central part of the contemporary American story,” says Jason Owen Smith, a professor at the University of Michigan, studying the scope of research on…

Design platform Figma has secretly filed the documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission to make public, the company announced Tuesday. Filing dropped the day that was hot on social media after sending a letter of halt and denial to Lovable, the rise of AI DEV tool startups, using the term “DEV mode.” The potential IPO comes more than a year after Adobe and Figma agreed to terminate their $2 billion acquisition, following regulatory pressures in the UK, which they first announced in late 2022. “Figma, Inc. has secretly submitted a draft registration statement for the SEC and Form S-1…

An electric wooden boat was capsized by about 400 passengers, with fire near the town of Mundakha.A boat capsized after firing in the Democratic Republic of Northwest Congo (DRC), killing at least 50 people and hundreds have gone missing, local officials said. Following the late Tuesday night’s accident on the Congo River, a search for missing persons took place Wednesday, assisting rescuers, supported by the Red Cross and state officials. An electric wooden boat with around 400 passengers sparked a fire near the town of Mundanka. He spoke to the Associated Press after leaving Matanumu port for Bolomba territory, a…