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Main Capital Partners closed the Netherlands' largest-ever private equity buyout fundraise at €5.25bn, betting on boring, essential enterprise software despite market panic over AI. The firm's loss rate below 0.5% and 4.…
A developer argues that AI agents need tiered approval escalation rather than a single confirm button for safe operation. The proposed system classifies actions into four tiers based on risk, with different approval requ…
Lenovo announced an expanded Hybrid AI Advantage portfolio featuring agentic AI and inferencing innovations to improve AI economics, accelerate deployment, and optimize performance, governance, and cost across hybrid env…
OpenAI deployment chief Arnaud Fournier said in an interview that the company aims to embed AI deeply within large corporations using its own engineers, citing explosive growth of Codex and a sharp drop in AI prices. He …
Microsoft released its 2026 AI in Education Report showing 92% of students and education leaders have used AI for school, and announced new AI-powered teaching tools available at no extra cost. The report highlights wide…
A growing majority of Dutch people want AI-generated music to be labeled on streaming platforms, with support rising from 59% to over 75% in two years, according to the NVPI Muziekmonitor. The demand for transparency com…
Researchers at Princeton University have developed AI-driven methods to design radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) that outperform human-designed chips in performance and are created in a fraction of the time. Th…
Google released the new Google Home Speaker, its first smart speaker in six years, featuring Google Gemini instead of Google Assistant. The device offers smart-home control, stereo pairing, and a more human-like assistan…
AI startup Taktile raised $110 million in Series C funding led by Goldman Sachs, with participation from Tiger Global, Index Ventures, and Y Combinator, to automate high-stakes financial decisions for banks and insurers.…
OpenAI signed a multi-year display deal with Getty Images to show licensed photos in ChatGPT, boosting Getty's stock by ~145%. ByteDance teased Seedance 2.5, a 30-second AI video generator with single-shot output and 4K …
A Walker Sands benchmark of 828 enterprise B2B companies found that while AI Overviews appear in 50% of relevant searches, the median brand is cited in only 3% of those AI-generated answers, revealing a significant gap b…
Xella Health, an AI-powered precision health platform for women, launched Wednesday with $4.7 million in funding. The startup uses artificial intelligence to analyze biomarkers and detect over 130 conditions affecting wo…
AI has made building software faster, but the bottleneck has shifted from delivery to decision-making. Teams must now focus on understanding problems and running experiments rather than just shipping features, as speed w…
Menlo Ventures raised $3 billion, its largest fund in 50 years, fueled by a single bet on Anthropic now worth about $14 billion. The firm split the capital into early-stage and growth funds to back AI startups from seed …
A 2026 analysis of 1,645 Lovable-created web applications found 170 had vulnerabilities exposing personal information, highlighting structural issues in AI-generated code. A survey of 18 CTOs in 2025 reported 16 producti…
Walt Disney's private plane, the Grumman Gulfstream I known as Mickey Mouse One, has been fully restored to its 1960s condition after decades of neglect in a Florida field. The Palm Springs Air Museum led the interior re…
Amazon shut down its internal AI leaderboard after it drove more AI-powered tasks but fewer useful results, with the SVP instructing staff not to use AI just for the sake of it. Uber blew past its 2026 AI coding budget i…
Coinbase has enabled agentic checkout across all its Payments APIs, allowing AI agents to autonomously spend crypto using the x402 protocol on Base. The protocol enables machine-to-machine stablecoin transactions with co…
Consulting firm Bain & Company is using AI-generated replicas of acquisition targets' software, a practice called vibecoding, to help potential buyers assess how easily a company's technology could be reproduced. The app…
Chinese AI lab Zhipu is considering a multibillion-dollar share sale in Hong Kong after its stock surged roughly 2,000% since January, pushing its market value above HK$1 trillion. The rally follows the launch of its ope…