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Cognition, an AI coding startup, raised $1 billion in a funding round that values the company at $26 billion. The investment underscores surging investor demand for artificial intelligence tools that automate software de…
Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Natoma, a provider of a centralized Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway, to bring governed agentic access to enterprise customers. The acquisition aims to address shadow AI risk…
Zendesk appointed Tifenn Dano Kwan as chief marketing officer, the company announced via Business Wire. Dano Kwan joins from Amplitude after senior marketing roles at SAP, Dropbox, and Collibra, as Zendesk reports AI boo…
Hungama Digital Media Entertainment and the Indian Institute of Creative Technologies hosted "Lights, Camera, Code: The New Storytelling Stack" as an official satellite event of Mumbai Tech Week 2026 at the IICT Campus i…
Amazon MGM Studios and Amazon Web Services announced a GenAI Creators' Fund on May 27, 2026, greenlighting three animated series for Prime Video: Punky Duck, Love, Diana Music Hunters, and Cupcake & Friends. The fund pro…
MotherDuck, a cloud-based analytics platform, has publicly stated it will not fork the open-source database DuckDB, despite the potential benefits of creating a separate codebase. The company argues that forking would fr…
ElevenLabs has partnered with Stan Lee Universe to license the late Marvel co-creator's AI-generated voice and likeness for commercial use through its Iconic Voices Marketplace. The deal allows businesses to pay for acce…
Google's AI-generated answers now dominate search results, leaving brands with little visibility into how the technology describes them to customers. On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Scrunch VP of partnerships Matt Thomps…
The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast published an episode on April 29, 2026, titled "Build a Business AI Can't Replace," featuring host John Jantsch interviewing author Derek Rydall. The episode discusses the risks of outsour…
Revolut U.S. CEO Cetin Duransoy stated at Semafor's Banking on the Future Forum that the fintech's AI-driven transaction-monitoring systems perform "statistically significantly better than human reviews of the transactio…
At Zendesk Relate 2026 in Denver, the company "hard launched" agentic AI as the central theme of the event. A developer from Local Measure, which was acquired by Zendesk, reported that the overlay model for Amazon Connec…
Luxome, a luxury weighted-blanket retailer, now uses the AI-native software LiquiDonate to route usable customer returns directly to nonprofits instead of its warehouse. Founder Hyaat Chaudhary told Business Insider that…
Boris Cherny, creator of Anthropic's Claude Code, told 22-year-old computer science graduates on the "Platformer" podcast to "go start a startup," calling the current moment a "golden age" for new ventures. Cherny said t…
Lanai released Token Tuner, a tool that maps token spend to specific workflows and identifies opportunities to substitute lower-cost AI models for premium ones. The dashboard detects model usage and workforce adoption ac…
Cognition, the developer of AI coding agent Devin, raised over $1 billion in a funding round that values the company at more than $26 billion, more than doubling its valuation in under nine months. The massive investment…
LogicNodes has launched a platform offering 2,316 deterministic AI workers accessible via HTTP, providing services such as gas oracles, signature verifiers, ZK attestation, and USDC balance checking without requiring sig…
Meta launched global consumer subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp on Wednesday, offering plans from $2.99 to $3.99 per month for extra features like profile customization and story insights. The company a…
Anthropic's Boris Cherny, creator of the AI coding tool Claude Code, said the role of "software engineer" could begin to disappear by the end of this year as automation eliminates traditional coding jobs. Cherny, who has…
A developer built ForSocials as a Chrome extension to embed AI tools directly into the browser workflow, eliminating the need for context switching. The project aims to reduce friction by keeping users within their exist…
A developer building a knowledge substrate for coding agents that pulls from all connected tools is struggling to gain traction with growing engineering teams. The tool, designed to provide cross-source, fresh evidence i…