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A developer explains that a Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) is an engineer deployed to the customer to adapt a powerful but generic product to solve a specific problem. The role, which blends engineering, consulting, and…
Amazon is preparing a major overhaul of its Prime Video streaming service, internally named Project Lighthouse, that will prioritize artificial intelligence to deliver more personalized content recommendations and a rede…
Innovaccer has crossed $200 million in annual recurring revenue, up from $130 million a year ago, as the healthcare AI startup deploys agentic AI tools on its unified data platform. CEO Abhinav Shashank has set an IPO th…
Stripe Inc. is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model marketplace, for $10 billion, a nearly eightfold increase from its $1.3 billion valuation in May. The deal would expand Stripe beyond payments into AI infrastruc…
AI chip startup Etched Inc. raised $300 million in Series C funding led by Sequoia, more than doubling its valuation to $10.3 billion. The company's chip, optimized solely for AI inference, uses proprietary LVI and Clust…
Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC, managing over $700 billion, has welcomed Chinese open-weight AI models from Moonshot and DeepSeek for their potential to cut adoption costs, signaling that model pricing is now a fina…
Nutanix and AMD are building a joint enterprise AI stack to help organizations move AI agents from pilot to production, addressing token economics, data sovereignty, and operational complexity. The partnership, linked by…
Telli announced a $15 million seed round on July 23, 2026, led by redalpine, to expand its AI platform for customer-facing operations, bringing total funding above $18.5 million according to Tech.eu. The Berlin-based com…
Intel recorded its fastest revenue growth in 15 years in the second quarter of 2026, with revenue up 25% year-over-year and a 59% increase in its data center and AI business, driven by surging demand from AI data centers…
Hang Lung Properties' new Westlake 66 mixed-use development in Hangzhou's Wulin Central Business District blends the city's ancient history with its modern identity as a tech hub, home to Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Unitree R…
Open-weight models like Kimi K3 are pressuring the margins of closed-source labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic, potentially shifting AI profit toward chipmakers and cloud providers. Kimi K3, a Chinese open-weight model, l…
Thoughtbot reports that startup founders using AI tools like Claude, Lovable, and Bubble.io can prototype quickly but still face challenges in product decisions, code validation, and strategic planning. Non-technical fou…
The core tension in AI today is between OpenAI's closed-ecosystem, API-centric business model and Hugging Face's open-repository model that allows developers to download and run models locally, according to a developer a…
Willow, a voice dictation startup, announced a new platform on July 23rd, 2026, that measures success by a "zero edit rate" — the proportion of transcriptions that require no user edits before sending. The company argues…
Genesis AI is in talks to raise $500 million, according to reports, signaling venture capital's shift toward robotics software over hardware. The startup, which emerged from stealth in July 2025 with a $105 million seed …
Email security startup AegisAI Inc. has raised $36 million in Series A funding led by Battery Ventures LP to counter a surge in AI-generated spear phishing, which the company says made up 13.9% of phishing attacks observ…
Sierra is acquiring Takeoff, an AI agent runtime startup that grew from $0 to nearly 8 figures in annual recurring revenue within 14 months. The combined company will build a new platform called Horizon, focusing on end-…
OpenAI's new product Presence, which enables AI agents with guardrails and policies for enterprise use, sent software stocks tumbling on Wednesday and Thursday, with Workday (-9.9%), Atlassian (-11.8%), HubSpot (-12.7%),…
Progress Software is paying $400 million in cash for Domo's operating business, leaving founder Josh James with $246 million in net cash and more than $900 million in net operating loss carryforwards inside a publicly li…
Alphabet reported its first-ever cash flow negative quarter and a record $112 billion quarterly profit, 69% of which came from unrealized paper gains, sending shares down nearly 7% as Wall Street reacted to the negative …