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TechCrunch May 4, 2026 at 16:45 Startups Rising Hot

Sierra raises $950M as the race to own enterprise AI gets serious

The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with — capital the company says it will use to become the "global standard" for AI-powered customer experiences.

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May 4, 2026 at 16:45 TechCrunch

Sierra raises $950M as the race to own enterprise AI gets serious

The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with — capital the company says it will use to become the "global standard" for AI-po...

May 4, 2026 at 15:51 Hacker News

Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

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May 4, 2026 at 13:00 TechCrunch

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Stardex Is Hiring a Founding Customer Success Lead

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Hackers are still exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites

Days after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in popular web hosting software cPanel and WHM, hackers keep targeting and hacking websites.

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Elon Musk sent ominous texts to Greg Brockman, Sam Altman after asking for a settlement, OpenAI claims

Musk texted OpenAI's president and co-founder saying that he and CEO Sam Altman "will be the most hated men in America."

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