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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True Anomaly just pulled in a massive $650 million round, pushing the four-year-old startup to a $2.2 billion valuation and putting it squarely at the center of a growing race to control space-based defense. The Colorado defense startup is building […]

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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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HawkEye 360 is stepping into the public markets with a clear signal: space data is no longer a niche play. The Virginia-based company said Monday it plans to reach a valuation of up to $2.42 billion in a U.S. initial […]

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New York just got a glimpse of what commuting could look like if traffic were no longer the default. Joby Aviation has started flying its electric air taxis across the city, turning a long drive between Manhattan and JFK Airport […]

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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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Tokenized real-world assets continue to gain traction, and the race is shifting from hype to infrastructure. REAL and RWA Inc. have just signed on to work together, aiming to close the gap between asset issuance and on-chain investor access. REAL, […]

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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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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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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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