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Mistral is exploring the design of its own chips as it ramps up an AI infrastructure build, according to a CNBC report. The French startup aims to gain greater control over its compute stack amid competition with OpenAI …
Bajaj Finserv announced a Rs 2,000 crore investment in artificial intelligence and technology-led startups over the next five years. The corporate funding commitment targets early-stage AI companies to accelerate innovat…
Lisa Lin, a 33-year-old former tech operations worker, used AI-assisted coding to build a baby nutrition app after having a son. Lin moved to contract work during early parenthood and began testing nutrition apps when he…
Israeli defense-AI startup Airis Labs emerged from stealth and announced a $60 million total funding round, including a $31 million Series B led by PSG Equity. Founded in 2023, the Tel Aviv-based company developed a vide…
Nebius shares surged 12% in premarket trading Thursday after AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, led by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, disclosed a 5.6% stake in the AI cloud company. The fund re…
A developer connected the Hermes Agent framework to a live MCP server with 59 tools and found it correctly executed a complex website-building workflow without explicit instructions. The agent autonomously loaded documen…
A developer built a free API that calculates the "Sync Tax"—a cost multiplier reflecting how software complexity inflates engineering budgets. The tool estimates the financial impact of coordination overhead and broken d…
A developer revived the stalled Smart Krishi Sahayak (Smart Agricultural Assistant) app using GitHub Copilot, transforming static mock pages into a production-ready ecosystem dashboard for small and marginal farmers. The…
Arthur Mensch, CEO of French AI startup Mistral, directly rebutted Pope Leo XIV’s call to “disarm AI” on Thursday, arguing that European companies cannot afford to step back from defence-AI work while adversaries activel…
Max Marchione, founder of Superpower, discusses how the AI-powered health concierge helps users track wellness and detect issues like high cholesterol. The platform provides personalized recommendations, positioning itse…
Wix is laying off approximately 1,000 employees, or 20% of its workforce, in the largest round of cuts in the company's history. CEO Avishai Abrahami cited economic pressures and a structural reorganization driven by the…
A startup operations checklist outlines 14 categories of back-office tasks, divided into one-time setup actions and recurring ongoing responsibilities. The framework covers legal incorporation, banking, payroll, equity m…
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed by University of Arizona graduates after telling them their task is to help shape AI, with similar jeers occurring at commencements at the University of Central Florida and Middle…
A Paris-based angel investor returned from a week in San Francisco, where meetings with senior software engineers, CTOs, and founders revealed a talent market now dominated by frontier AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI, …
Voice AI is emerging as a core infrastructure layer for consumer-facing businesses, helping brands reduce friction across customer journeys, according to Inc42. At its AI Summit 2026, ElevenLabs India head Karthik Rajara…
Ketch launched the Ketch Agent Network, a multi-agent orchestration layer designed to automate enterprise privacy programs by reasoning across legal obligations, policies, and operational data. The system offers agentic …
Pony.ai reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of RMB 236 million (USD 34.7 million), a 145% year-on-year increase, and Robotaxi revenue of RMB 59.12 million (USD 8.7 million), up 395.4% year-on-year, according to its May 2…
Lisa Lin, a 33-year-old non-technical operations professional and new mother, used the AI app builder Lovable to create Nutribabe, a nutrition app that provides daily checklists for introducing solid foods and allergens …
A developer has revived Intelliyash, a local-first AI runtime and builder designed to run on low-end machines without requiring cloud APIs or complex setup. The project now features an "Idea Drop Zone" that guides users …
Mistral AI secured $830 million in debt financing to build a data center near Paris, housing 13,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300 GPUs with 44 MW of power capacity, with operations expected to begin in the second quarter …