Abhishek Das, co-founder and co-CEO of Yutori, says building reliable automation requires strict standards, not optimistic assumptions about user patience.
With Apple's latest operating system updates, users will reportedly have their pick of which third-party AI models they want to use for a host of tasks.
A fresh legal fight is brewing over how AI models are built, and this time it puts Meta back in the spotlight. A group of major publishers, including Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, and McGraw-Hill, has sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan [β¦]
Coinbase is laying off about 700 employees, roughly 14% of its workforce, as the company reshapes itself around AI and braces for a softer crypto market. CEO Brian Armstrong framed the move as a reset, meant to make the company [β¦]
The rush to build AI is starting to hit a physical limit. It is not chips or models this time. It is electricity.Β Across the U.S. and Canada, data centers are drawing more power than grids were built to handle. New [β¦]
The race to build bigger AI models is running into a hard limit: power. A single training run can burn through as much electricity as thousands of homes, and new data centers are getting stuck in years-long queues for grid [β¦]
Wall Street is stepping deeper into AI, and this time itβs not just about funding models. Itβs about putting them to work inside real businesses. Anthropic said Monday it is teaming up with Goldman Sachs and Blackstone to launch a [β¦]
Itβs Monday, May 4, 2026, and weβre back with todayβs top startup and tech funding news. Todayβs rounds reflect a clear shift toward infrastructure that powers AI, defense, and real-world systems. From enterprise AI agents and customer data platforms to [β¦]
Panthalassa raises $140M to build wave-powered offshore nodes that generate electricity and run AI workloads at sea, tackling data center energy and cooling challenges.
OpenAI and Anthropic, which had existing evaluation partnerships with the center dating to 2024, renegotiated their deals to align with priorities in Trump's AI Action Plan.
Nvidia's Jensen Huang reiterates that American companies should be able to ship their products globally, but maintains that the latest AI accelerators should remain in America.
The Trump administration is said to be discussing an executive order that would establish a government review process for new AI models before theyβre released to the public.
Sierra, the AI startup founded by Bret Taylor, has raised $950 million in new funding at a $15.8 billion post-money valuation, according to CNBC. The raise lands in the middle of a deal surge, as investors race to back companies [β¦]
Blackstone is making a fresh move in one of the hottest corners of the market: the infrastructure powering artificial intelligence. The private equity giant is taking a newly formed investment vehicle public, aiming to raise just over $1.7 billion in [β¦]
Enzo Health is betting that the future of care doesnβt sit inside a hospitalβit starts at home. The AI startup has raised a $20 million Series A round led by N47, bringing its total funding to $26 million, at a [β¦]
SAP is making a bold call on where enterprise AI is headedβand itβs not betting on chatbots. The German software giant has agreed to acquire Prior Labs, a young startup focused on a niche many in AI have overlooked: structured [β¦]
The courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman is starting to pull back the curtain on how AI models are actually builtβand the latest revelation could have far-reaching consequences. During testimony this week, Musk acknowledged that his startup xAI [β¦]
Cerebras is aiming to raise up to $3.5 billion in a Nasdaq listing, according to an updated prospectus filed Mondayβa move first reported by CNBC. The company plans to sell 28 million shares priced between $115 and $125. At the [β¦]
Chinese courts ruled that companies cannot automatically fire workers simply because AI can do the job more cheaply, declaring that automation alone does not justify dismissal under labor law.
The U.S. Navy just signed a $99.7 million deal with Domino Data Lab to build software to monitor other AI mine detection systems, identify failures, and push corrections in the field.
An AI agent has crossed a line that, until now, belonged strictly to humans. It didnβt just write code or automate tasks. It formed a company. ClawBank, a project focused on building infrastructure for autonomous software, says its in-house agent, [β¦]
The Pentagon is opening its doors wider to artificial intelligenceβand closing one, at least for now. On Friday, the Department of Defense said it has reached agreements with a group of major AI providers to bring their tools into its [β¦]
KKR is making a $10 billion bet that the real bottleneck in artificial intelligence isnβt models or chips. Itβs everything around them. The private equity giant has launched Helix Digital Infrastructure, a new standalone company built to supply the physical [β¦]
Itβs Thursday, April 30, 2026, and weβre back with todayβs top startup and tech funding news. Todayβs rounds highlight a clear shift toward AI infrastructure, autonomous systems, energy technology, and real-world deployment layers. From customer service automation to legal AI, [β¦]
The U.S. Department of War announced agreements with seven AI providers, allowing it to deploy multiple LLMs for its use and avoiding lock up with a single vendor.
Huawei is reportedly on track to become Chinaβs top AI chip supplier as Nvidia faces export restrictions and customs delays. Analysts forecast Chinaβs domestic AI chip market could hit $67 billion by 2030.
Blue Owl is cashing in on one of its most lucrative bets.Β The alternative asset manager has sold roughly half of its stake in SpaceX at a $1.25 trillion valuation, turning an early investment into a 10x return. The update came [β¦]
Nvidia is tightening its grip on the next wave of AI by backing a fast-rising legal tech startup now valued in the billions.Β The chip giantβs venture arm, NVentures, has backed Swedish startup Legora at a $5.6 billion valuation, according to [β¦]
Major firms are finding the rising costs of AI hard to manage, as human workers are now often more affordable alternatives to AI within certain contexts. With many platforms switching to per-token billing and rising model costs, we may be reaching an inflection point where human workers are a more efficient way to spend.
Samsung and SK hynix warn that severe AI-driven memory shortages could persist through 2027 as exploding HBM demand overwhelms supply, tightens the broader DRAM market, and fuels record profits
An SaaS business got all its data back after its cloud data provider recovered critical databases that were ruthlessly wiped by an AI agent gone rogue.
Housing construction projects in Texas are facing delays of up to two months as contractors are having a harder time finding and keeping electricians. Data center projects are pricing out housing projects from the labor force as they offer 75% higher salaries and more benefits.
Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal with Amazon Web Services last week to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 CPU cores across AWS data centers.
OpenAI has reportedly modified its arrangement on several Stargate projects, leaving the direct ownership set up and instead preferring to lease compute from other partners who took on the direct risk of investing in the infrastructure.
As advanced LLMs do more and more for modern businesses, the outlays to cover all those tokens can cost more than worker salaries alone. But some companies don't see the added costs as a negative as they look toward a more automated future.
Meta has announced plans to help power its AI data centers using sunlight beamed from space through a partnership with Overview Energy, alongside a 100 GWh long-duration storage deal with Noon Energy, as the AI industryβs energy demands continue to surge.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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