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STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Blacksmith hits $1B valuation after $66M Series C led by Sequoia

Blacksmith, a CI platform that helps companies build and test software — including code written by AI — raised $66 million in a Series C led by Sequoia, valuing the company at $1 billion. The startup says ARR has grown 17x, it has run over 90 million CI jobs, counts customers such as Mercury and Granola, and has raised $125 million to date.

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COMPANIES · 2 SOURCES · TechCrunch AI · The Verge AI

Google launches local-first Mac meeting note-taker 'Google AI Edge Foresight' using on-device Gemma models

Google released a Mac app called Google AI Edge Foresight that captures meeting notes across apps and in‑person meetings and can run completely offline on Apple Silicon. The app uses an on‑device EmbeddingGemma 2 (740M parameters) for embeddings, offers a split view like Granola, lets users view transcripts and chat with a Gemma 4–powered assistant, and can ingest PDFs, Google Docs, Office files, text, Markdown and bookmarks to build a local knowledge base for real‑time Q&A.

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