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Coralogix, a Boston-based software monitoring startup founded in Israel, raised $200 million in Series F funding led by Advent and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, valuing the company at $1.6 billion post-money.…
Kilo launched a new Architect agent in its Marketplace that uses the Grill-Me skill to interrogate users about ambiguous requirements before generating plans. The agent asks clarifying questions about constraints, priori…
Software engineers are facing a professional reckoning as AI coding agents, which improved significantly late last year, have rapidly transformed their roles and made coding more accessible to non-technical workers. The …
A developer working with webhook, PHP, and email integrations is offering to diagnose silent production failures for other engineers. The developer, who built elionmusic.com and prayerauthority.com, invites peers to shar…
Venture capitalist Jesse Walden has raised $222 million for Variant 4, a new early-stage fund that expands his firm's investment thesis beyond crypto to include artificial intelligence and "autonomy." Walden, who founded…
Anthropic's AI agents rewrote Bun's entire codebase from Zig to Rust in nine days, merging a million-line pull request on May 14 that passed 99.8% of existing tests but introduced over 10,000 `unsafe` blocks across 700 f…
A new AI news aggregator called VNN launched on Hacker News, claiming to verify every source it aggregates in real time. The platform curates stories from global events, including a UC Berkeley study estimating 3,400 exc…
Cognition has rebranded its Windsurf IDE as Devin Desktop, merging the two products into a single platform that serves as a command center for managing both local and cloud-based AI agents. The new release introduces an …
OneRobotics, the parent company of SwitchBot, has acquired smart lighting company Nanoleaf for approximately $40 million. Nanoleaf CEO Gimmy Chu stated the company will remain independent and that the partnership will pr…
Piramidal (YC W24) is hiring senior software engineers for frontend, backend, and infra roles to work on problems at the intersection of foundational AI and neuroscience. The company is seeking candidates with experience…
Town, a startup founded by former Plaid CTO Jean-Denis Grézé and former Google AI director Tony Vincent, raised $55 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to develop personalized AI assistants called Town…
Henry Hayes, vice president of marketing at Passionfruit, began posting short-form comedy skits on LinkedIn in February 2025 to generate leads for his marketing company, with spoofs like "Grand Theft Auto Vice City — but…
Windrose CEO Wen Han signed a strategic partnership with mobile charging firm LiFe-Younger to develop a containerized mobile AI data center and battery energy storage system (BESS) pulled by Windrose’s R700 electric semi…
Pudu Robotics showcased its latest commercial service robots and embodied AI technologies at BEYOND Expo 2026 in Macao, where founder and CEO Felix Zhang spoke at the opening ceremony. The company introduced the PuduFM 1…
Movate and Leena AI announced a strategic partnership to accelerate AI-driven employee experience and enterprise operations, pairing Movate's applied-AI services with Leena AI's Agentic AI platform. The collaboration aim…
A new open-source AI agent platform called OpenSkynet has been released, enabling users to deploy autonomous agents for web browsing, coding, and task management through a single command-line installation. The system fea…
Europe's AI boom faces three major risks: heavy reliance on US infrastructure and foundational models, potential redundancy as American models like Claude and ChatGPT expand into European applications, and a capital-mark…
AI music startup Suno raised $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation, doubling its worth from seven months ago. The company, which generates songs from text prompts and has over two million subscribers, faces copyright …
UK banks have been offered access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, even as they remain excluded from Anthropic’s Glasswing expansion, which inducted 150 new organizations, including the first outside the US. The move highlights a gr…
A developer has created qpilot, an open-source AI agent that reads plain-text manual test cases and executes them step-by-step in a real Chrome browser using TypeScript, Playwright, and Anthropic's Claude Haiku model. Th…