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Leapfrog Investments CEO Andrew Kuper said artificial intelligence represents both the greatest challenge and the most significant opportunity for impact investing. The private equity firm, which focuses on financial ser…
MetricSync developer found that the most effective AI food logging UX requires three input modes—photo, barcode, and text—rather than relying solely on AI photo recognition. The developer learned that photo logging works…
Anthropic, the AI company valued at $965 billion, called for a global slowdown in AI development Thursday, warning that systems could soon improve themselves without human intervention and cause societal chaos. Critics a…
An app built with AI costs little to create but hundreds of dollars per month once real users arrive, as each production need—authentication, file uploads, email delivery, error tracking, and abuse protection—requires a …
Accounting firms are adopting AI meeting assistants to capture client advisory calls, transcribe technical tax discussions into plain-language summaries, and track action items across multiple engagements. The tools fall…
A one-page discovery call template with six targeted fields—current state, pain quantification, stakeholder map, success criteria, timeline, and next steps—replaces bloated multi-page formats that force reps to interroga…
A youth baseball coach frustrated by the time-consuming logistics of creating and adjusting lineups built CalledUp, a mobile app that handles rosters, schedules, lineups, and parent messaging in one place. The developer,…
Corporate spend management platform Ramp has achieved a $44 billion valuation after closing a $750 million Series F funding round led by ICONIQ, GIC, and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. The New York-based company nearly …
Enterprise tech giants Microsoft and Snowflake are shifting their AI strategies toward cost efficiency, unveiling products this week designed to reduce compute expenses as customers face mounting token bills. The moves s…
Seeking Alpha estimated in an investing column that Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Google, and Amazon are committing roughly $600 billion to $700 billion or more to AI and related infrastructure. The analysis named Gemi…
Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies, including OpenAI, about the federal government acquiring shares in their firms, according to three people familiar wit…
Founders Fund launched a new YouTube and X show Thursday featuring 12 Silicon Valley figures, including Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and Bryan Johnson, playing the deception game Mafia at San Francisco's Tosca Cafe. The 33…
California lawmakers are again considering AB 412, a bill that would require AI developers to identify and disclose copyrighted works used to train generative AI systems. The Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted an o…
The Conversation published an essay examining how AI companions are reshaping love, sex and intimacy, focusing on Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda who trained a chatbot on a deceased friend's text messages. Replika drew rou…
Insurtech Insights USA 2026 concluded after two days at New York's Javits Center, drawing more than 6,000 carriers, reinsurers, and technology builders. The conference's main-stage programming shifted the conversation fr…
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee called for artificial intelligence to preserve the web's original values of individual primacy, speaking to AFP at SXSW London 2026. Berners-Lee warned that AI models rely on the w…
New York City is emerging as a hub for applied artificial intelligence, driven by major office leases from OpenAI and other AI firms, according to reporting from NY Tech Week. Andreessen Horowitz partner David Haber pred…
Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei dismissed concerns about AI's return on investment ahead of the company's confidential IPO filing, arguing that businesses are still early in learning how to deploy the technology effe…
Flourish, a New York-based neuroscience startup, raised $500 million at a $2.5 billion valuation from investors including Jeff Bezos, Lux Capital, and GV. The company is developing Cortex AI, a brain-inspired system desi…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab, moving from AI adopter to competitor in the field. The lab's focus may center on user interaction and design, areas Chesky emphasized at Airbnb, though he will remain…