Sales teams have spent years stacking tools on top of tools—CRMs, sequencing platforms, enrichment data, forecasting dashboards—yet the core problem hasn’t changed. Work still moves only when a human is actively pushing it forward. Actively thinks that the model is […]

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Google is taking a decisive step deeper into the U.S. military’s AI push, joining a small group of companies now supplying advanced models for classified work. According to a report from The Information, Google has signed an agreement with the […]

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On Friday afternoon, a single API call erased months of business data in nine seconds. The command came from an AI coding agent running on Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model through the Cursor development tool, according to a report from Tom’s […]

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OpenAI may be preparing its boldest move yet into consumer hardware. A new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, first spotted by 9to5Mac, points to a smartphone in development, with mass production targeted for 2028. If that timeline holds, OpenAI would […]

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It’s Monday, April 27, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight a surge in capital flowing into AI-native systems, robotics, quantum computing, and applied fintech. From billion-dollar bets on next-generation “self-learning” AI […]

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A new AI startup from David Silver just pulled off something rarely seen in Europe: a $1.1 billion seed round. The company, Ineffable Intelligence, now carries a $5.1 billion valuation, setting a new bar for early-stage funding across the region […]

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Nvidia, Oracle, SoftBank, and CoreWeave saw their stock prices go down because of news that OpenAI has been missing its internal targets. SoftBank stock lost 9.9% of its value on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, and CoreWeave also dropped during pre-market trading and remain down after the market opened.

Microsoft and OpenAI have announced a restructuring of their relationship. No longer will Microsoft pay OpenAI a revenue share, but it will continue to flow the other way. Microsoft will also retain model access and a first-refusal for its Azure server services, but OpenAI will be able to work with other CSPs.

The site has published 94 articles since late December using a fully automated pipeline that drafts stories, reviews them, and deploys bots to solicit quotes from real people under fake bylines.

Skin checks are among the most common procedures in dermatology, yet access is worsening. Clinics are booked out for months, doctors are under pressure, and early signs can slip through when time is short. SquareMind thinks it can change that […]

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Microsoft just gave up one of its biggest advantages in AI—and the ripple effects are already showing up across the cloud market. OpenAI and Microsoft announced on Monday a revamped partnership that ends Microsoft’s exclusive access and allows OpenAI to serve […]

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China just drew a hard line in the sand for global AI deals. On Monday, the country’s top economic planner ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a fast-rising AI startup with Chinese roots. The directive effectively shuts […]

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After the company database was wiped in just 9 seconds, the founder of PocketOS penned a social media post to warn others about the 'systemic failures' of flagship AI and digital services providers.

DeepSeek on Friday released a preview of its V4 large language model, the Hangzhou-based startup's most powerful to date.

Elon Musk has spent years selling Mars as the endgame for SpaceX. The latest glimpse into its finances tells a different story. The company is pouring billions into artificial intelligence, turning what was once a rocket business into an AI […]

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Canadian AI lab Cohere said Friday it plans to acquire German AI company Aleph Alpha, a move to accelerate its expansion across Europe’s growing sovereign AI market. The acquisition, still subject to regulatory approval, comes alongside a planned $600 million […]

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DeepSeek is back, and it’s not easing into the spotlight. A year after its earlier model rattled Silicon Valley and forced a rethink on how much it really costs to build advanced AI, the Hangzhou-based startup has introduced a new flagship […]

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It’s Thursday, April 23, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds make one thing clear: AI is moving past experimentation and into production systems where reliability, governance, and real-world utility matter more than […]

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OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, its latest artificial intelligence model, advancing its push into systems that can handle real-world work with less human input. The new model lands less than two months after GPT-5.4, underscoring how quickly the AI race is […]

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A Texas private school already under scrutiny for replacing traditional classrooms with AI-powered learning is now making one of the boldest promises yet in education: make $1 million by graduation, or get your tuition back. Alpha School, founded in 2014 […]

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NEO Semiconductor says its 3D X-DRAM passed proof-of-concept testing, using 3D NAND processes to target cheaper AI memory than HBM. The company has secured funding for development.

Japan’s SaiMemory, a SoftBank subsidiary collaborating with Intel, has secured NEDO funding to develop Z-Angle Memory (ZAM), a next-gen DRAM architecture addressing HBM limitations

War is changing faster than most security teams can keep up. Conflicts like the one in Ukraine have shown what happens when AI enters the fight: attacks move at machine speed, data floods in from every direction, and human analysts […]

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Anthropic kept its most sensitive AI system behind closed doors, warning it was too risky for public release. Days later, it was reportedly running inside a private Discord group. That’s the claim at the center of a new report from […]

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Sony just put a robot across the table—and it didn’t blink. In a series of live matchups that feel closer to science fiction than a lab demo, Sony AI’s table tennis robot, Ace, has beaten elite human players under official International […]

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Enterprises are being flooded with code—and much of it isn’t written by humans anymore. That shift is driving fresh urgency around one problem many teams can’t ignore: how to control, verify, and secure the software generated by AI coding tools. Cloudsmith, […]

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Anthropic’s secondary market valuation has reportedly surged to $1 trillion, surpassing OpenAI’s $880 billion, driven by intense investor demand for AI exposure, and highlighting speculative pricing in secondary markets.

The ChatGPT maker indicated that its new partnership with Amazon will help enhance its enterprise market share while highlighting key constraints in its Microsoft tie-up.

AI chip design startup Verkor.io claims that its agentic AI system, Design Conductor, has autonomously produced a complete RISC-V CPU core.

Jesse Davies, an Australian AI consultant and founder of Agentic Labs, was caught unawares when their Google Cloud bill ballooned to more than 2,500 times their initial budget after an unknown API key registered more than 60,000 requests while they were asleep.

Researchers at OX Security have exposed an architectural vulnerability in Anthropic's Model Context Protocol that allows for remote code execution on affected systems.

OpenAI’s Codex gets a memory upgrade, improving developer workflows by boosting effectiveness and efficiency.

Cerebras' sales hit half a billion dollars in 2025, but 86% of its revenue comes from Abu Dhabi-based G42 and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, which represents major risks.

A tinkerer has sequenced their own genome at home, hoping to uncover secrets behind a family history of autoimmune disease.

The proposal will be discussed at the an ISO meeting in Singapore, the first time held in ASEAN, bringing more than 35 national bodies and 250 AI experts.

The update extends Dropbox’s effort to plug its storage, search, and calendar tools into AI assistants.

Morgan Stanley said agentic AI, which can plan tasks and act with less human input, could add US$32.5 billion to US$60 billion.

Towngas plan to move more core businesses to the cloud while developing digital platforms and AI tools.

IQiyi launched Nadou Pro, an AI tool for scriptwriting, storyboarding, and video rendering.

Nikhyl Singhal, founder of The Skip, explains how AI is shifting product management from a communication-heavy role into one focused on judgment and building.

MAS said financial institutions should close vulnerabilities, patch systems quickly, and tighten cyber hygiene.

Existing backers Peak XV, Lightspeed, and Khosla Ventures are also expected to join.

The race for AI compute and its jagged limits, Zuckerberg’s return to coding, and a candid take from Animoca’s CEO on agents and blockchain.