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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…
Quanton has launched a high-performance compute engine for Apache Spark that delivers faster execution through SIMD-vectorized processing and storage-aware planning, with no migration or code rewrites required. The engin…
Anthropic has surpassed OpenAI as the most valuable artificial intelligence company, reaching a $900 billion valuation after a $65 billion fund-raising round. The company’s rise was fueled by its Claude models and the Cl…
BuzzFeed and Vox Media, once celebrated pioneers of the audience-era digital media, have been acquired for a fraction of their former valuations, with Vox Media going to James Murdoch for $300 million and BuzzFeed sold t…
AI infrastructure startup XCENA raised $135 million in a Series B funding round, achieving a $570 million valuation as investors target solutions for rising generative AI costs. The company, founded by former Samsung and…
Rail Vision, a NASDAQ-listed Israeli AI company, has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with Railserve, a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, to deploy its AI-powered obstacle-detection sensor systems across rai…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek permanently slashed prices on its flagship V4 Pro model by 75%, undercutting Western rivals like Anthropic's Claude Sonnet and OpenAI's GPT 5.5-Med by up to 17x on outputs. The price cuts, ena…
Cedana, a Y Combinator-backed startup from the S23 batch, is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to help maximize AI and HPC cluster utilization through automated GPU checkpointing and live migration. The company’s kernel…
British autonomous-vehicle software startup Wayve is launching a new research unit called Wayve Labs, led by chief scientist Jamie Shotton, to explore embodied intelligence systems beyond self-driving cars. The lab will …
XCENA, a four-year-old chip startup with offices in South Korea and the U.S., raised $135 million in Series B funding at a $570 million valuation to develop a chip that moves compute capabilities closer to DRAM memory. T…
Headroom, a new macOS menu bar app, reduces Claude Code token usage by approximately 50% by locally trimming prompt bloat and boilerplate before inputs reach the model. The tool processes all data on the user's machine, …
Shift, an AI training startup, is offering free home cleaning services in New York in exchange for recording the work to train future robots. Cleaners will wear a camera-equipped "magic hat" to capture footage from their…