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Bland, a San Francisco-based voice AI startup, raised $50 million in Series C funding led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from HubSpot Ventures and others. The company, which processes over 3.5 million c…
Brandon Bussi, a 27-year-old goaltender for the Carolina Hurricanes, became the first American goalie to clinch the Stanley Cup with a shutout since Jonathan Quick in 2014, after being claimed off waivers from the Florid…
Snap Inc. has opened pre-orders for its consumer augmented reality glasses, Snap Specs, at $2,195 with a $200 refundable deposit. The lightweight, see-through AR glasses run on Snap OS 2.0 and feature AI integrations fro…
A new AI-generated game called Founder Trail simulates startup survival, allowing founders to paste their company URL and watch an AI-driven narrative unfold with permanent death. The game, created by the thread.app team…
Mistral AI teased a new sparse 'fat' model family for early access in July, but a viral meme about a 'Le Chaton Fat' model with 24T-30T parameters was debunked as an internet hoax. The company's actual latest model, Mist…
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Anysphere, the maker of AI coding tool Cursor, in a stock deal valuing the startup at $60 billion. The acquisition, disclosed in a regulatory filing, will make Anysphere a wholly owned SpaceX…
Databricks announced the public preview of Apps on Databricks Marketplace, allowing customers to discover, install, and run third-party data and AI applications directly within their secure workspaces. Providers can dist…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) launched a CFO community program that brings together small cohorts of finance leaders for in-person sessions over a year, aiming to provide a trusted peer network for discussing sensitive deci…
SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding company Cursor's parent Anysphere for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, expected to close in Q3 2026 pending regulatory approvals. The deal follows an April option that allow…
SpaceX acquired AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in stock just days after its record-breaking IPO, using its surging share price as a near-costless acquisition currency. The deal, the largest ever for a venture-b…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced updates to its Private Cloud AI platform on March 16, co-engineered with Nvidia, delivering up to a 20% improvement in token throughput for AI inference tasks. New network expansion r…
Anthropic is reportedly preparing for an initial public offering, prompting investors to evaluate the AI company's financials and market position before buying the stock.
SpaceX shares surged for a third consecutive day, pushing its market value to $2.8 trillion and briefly overtaking Amazon to become the world's fourth-largest stock. The rally was driven by limited public float and stron…
SpaceX will acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, aiming to gain a competitive edge against Anthropic and OpenAI. The deal, announced in a regulatory filing, will make Cursor a wholly owned subsidiary of Spac…
The University of Sydney's AI platform Cogniti, launched on Microsoft Marketplace in January 2026, enables educators to build course-specific AI tutors. Early trials in New Zealand nursing schools showed 100% student rec…
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, survived a board coup in November 2023 after being fired and reinstated within a week, highlighting the immense power concentration in AI. The incident reveals how platform mercantilism and sup…
Angel Armendariz, a 20-year enterprise sales veteran from AWS, released an open-source Claude Skill called Forward Deployed Selling (FDS) that encodes a sales methodology for the AI era. The skill, free and installable i…
Canadian LLM developer Cohere reports a surge in inbound interest after the US blocked Anthropic's latest models, positioning itself as a sovereign alternative to US AI providers.
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citi, and MUFG are arranging $2.5 billion in debt financing to back AI-driven investment group Long Lake Management's $6.3 billion acquisition of American Express Global Business Travel. …
SpaceX will acquire AI coding tool Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, the companies announced today. The deal comes days after SpaceX's IPO and months after its merger with xAI, as Cursor struggles with …