Iain Martin
Forbes Senior Editor writing about AI, tech and venture capital
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- Reed Jobs lost his father Steve to cancer. Now his cancer-focused VC Yosemite has raised another $200M. “We think it’s going to go from a death sentence to just a chronic lifelong disease,” he said. NEW for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
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- A scoopy day at @forbes.com. Another one from @iainmartin.bsky.social and me— buzzy legal AI startup Harvey has closed a $150 million funding round, nabbing a $8 billion valuation. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
- Scoop: AI video company Synthesia has raised $200 million at a $4 billion valuation in a round led by GV (Google's venture arm). With Anna Tong and @iainmartin.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...
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- My TikTok book is out in stores today! Why should you read it? Because 1 in 5 Americans now get their news from this thing. We should all understand how it works. It was inevitable that strongmen would seek to control a tool this powerful. The book is the story of what happened when they did.
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- Friends, let me introduce you to a new, truly wild genre of YouTube vids www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
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- Intel has been touting partnerships with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms as Trump announces that the USG is taking a stake in the company: www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
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- SCOOP: AI coding startup Cognition, which recently acquired Windsurf, is in talks to raise north of $300 million at a $10 billion valuation, according to sources familiar. Founders Fund and KV are involved. With @richardnieva.bsky.social and @iainmartin.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/richar...
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- NEW: Elon Musk’s DOGE role and inflammatory public behavior have done significant damage to the Tesla brand, a new pill finds. Pension fund investors are fed up with the Tesla board’s failure to reign in the billionaire CEO #Tesla www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
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- New York friends! I’ll be in Greenwich Village next Tuesday evening for this lovely event — come through and say hi :) www.nyfwa.org/nyfwa-event/...
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- New from me: chatbots for schoolchildren dispensed dangerous information — including instructions for how to synthesize fentanyl and a date rape drug — in tests conducted by Forbes. www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
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- New: Meta is recruiting former national security officials to bolster its military ambitions, months after allowing its Llama AI model to be used for military use. www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...
- SCOOP: Legal AI startup and Harvey challenger Legora (formerly Leya) is in talks to raise $85 million in funding at a $675 million valuation. General Catalyst and Iconiq are leading the investment. With @iainmartin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...
- New: Hustle culture has always been ingrained in Silicon Valley’s DNA. Now as AI booms, some startups are requiring 6 or 7 day work weeks. One of them is Mercor, a $2 billion recruitment unicorn founded by Thiel Fellows. With @iainmartin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/richar...
- 1/ Infinite Reality claims it raised more than $3 billion from a sole unnamed investor. That would make the obscure company the beneficiary of one of the biggest funding rounds of the year. Not all is as it seems. With @iainmartin.bsky.social for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
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- Paging through cancelled HHS grants a few weeks ago, I noticed an alarming trend: 'DOGE' was shuttering maternal and child healthcare programs, despite what Musk and Trump were saying about 'The Birth Rate.' New from me, on the human costs of DOGE: www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
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