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Aizy, a one-year-old Dutch AI-marketing firm based in Breda, has acquired Uptmz, a seven-year-old performance-advertising platform, merging the two into a single system serving over 600 customers. The combined platform s…
Nvidia has partnered with smart electrical panel maker SPAN and homebuilder PulteGroup to deploy compact AI compute nodes, called XFRA, on residential properties. The pilot program targets around 100 nodes for 2026, tapp…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, scheduled for October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, is accepting speaker applications until 11:59 p.m. PT tonight. The event will gather over 10,000 startup and VC leaders to discuss AI…
HSBC analyst Stephen Bersey upgraded Snowflake from Hold to Buy, raising the price target from $176 to $289, citing accelerating AI monetization and margin expansion. The upgrade follows Snowflake's fiscal Q1 results, wh…
Datavault AI signed a perpetuals deal to enable 24/7 trading of commodity real-world assets (RWAs). The agreement allows for the continuous trading of tokenized commodity assets outside traditional market hours. This mov…
Anthropic has surpassed OpenAI in valuation, reaching a new high in private market funding. The AI startup's latest valuation reflects growing investor confidence in its technology and business model. However, the compan…
A developer built a bilingual AI receptionist after discovering that 8% of U.S. business calls are in Spanish, with some markets seeing 20-30%. The engineer found that small businesses lose $30,000-$90,000 annually due t…
Drafted, a nine-month-old AI startup, has raised $16 million in seed funding to let users generate home floor plans and 3D layouts from simple text descriptions. Founded by Nick Donahue, the company aims to make home des…
Box founder Aaron Levie accused many CEOs of suffering from "AI psychosis," arguing they are the least likely to understand the jobs they are replacing with artificial intelligence. The criticism comes amid a wave of tec…
A developer created a PRD analysis tool that uses AI to evaluate product ideas across 25 criteria, including market demand, competition, and technical complexity, generating a professional investment-style dashboard in f…
UK autonomous-vehicle software company Wayve launched a new research unit called Wayve Labs, led by chief scientist Jamie Shotton, to study embodied AI including spatial reasoning and learning from consequences in real-w…
KIDZ AI amended its $500 million secured convertible financing facility to expand permitted uses to acquisitions, strategic investments, partnerships, working capital, infrastructure development, and international expans…
Screenwriter Paul Schrader predicted at the "AI on the Lot" conference that fully-generated AI lead actors will emerge and that AI should be used to create new episodes of "I Love Lucy." The two-day event at Amazon MGM's…
AISlop, a new open-source command-line tool, now detects "AI code smells" left by coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor, analyzing code for issues such as narrative comments, swallowed exceptions, and dead code. The …
Companies are increasingly questioning whether hiring junior software engineers makes financial sense, as AI coding agents can now produce code more efficiently than entry-level employees. The job market reflects this sh…
A developer built an AI-powered medical-records hub after his mother's stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis overwhelmed his family with documents, appointments, and treatment options. The tool, currently free to use, comb…
Uber has partnered with hospitality property management service Mews to embed ride booking, real-time tracking, and integrated billing directly into the platform used by 15,000 hotels globally. The integration, announced…
Billionaire investor Dan Loeb, founder of Third Point, told the "Invest Like The Best" podcast that he does not view artificial intelligence as a bubble, stating "We're barely scratching the surface" and that major tech …
NetApp reported record quarterly and full-year revenues for fiscal 2026, driven by surging demand for all-flash arrays and AI-related infrastructure. Fourth-quarter revenue hit $1.948 billion, up 12% year-over-year, whil…
Anthropic's rapid growth represents only the beginning of a broader artificial intelligence market rally, according to analysts. The AI company's expansion signals that the sector's current momentum is "just the tip of t…