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Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised 400M led by Radical Ventures at a 2B valuation — The company raised
Shares in Rubrik Inc. fell more than 2% in late trading today despite the security and AI operations company reporting beats in revenue and earnings in its fiscal first quarter and raising its outlook
SpaceX has not conducted a public IPO as of my last knowledge update (April 2024), and Elon Musk has historically stated the company remains private to focus on long-term goals like Mars colonization.
Today we're launching the Main Street AI Accelerator with the U.S. Small Business Administration. We're committing 25M in Computer credits, 250 each for up to 100,000 eligible companies, in honor of A
Waymo has announced a deal with energy storage company B2U to use retired robotaxi batteries to serve electricity grids in California and Texas. The used battery packs will be installed into grid-conn
VoidZero, a security company, has joined Cloudflare as part of an acquisition or partnership announcement. The integration likely expands Cloudflare's security capabilities and product offerings for i
We are saying no to a data centre in Île-des-Chênes because there are big threats to the environment and not much benefit to the economy. Our message to any tech company out there… if you want to buil
We're kicking off our first cohort of Runway Builders with almost 100 startups building at the frontier of real time video with the Runway API – notifications going out to accepted companies today! If
Enterprise AI is forcing companies to rethink where their most sensitive workloads should live, and private cloud is moving deeper into the center of that decision. For many organizations, the cloud c
The agentic AI era is putting new pressure on the infrastructure stack, and CoreWeave Inc.’s latest milestone gives the conversation a sharper edge. This week, the company announced that it has comple
Shares of CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. fell more than 9% in late trading today after the cybersecurity company beat earnings and revenue estimates in its fiscal 2027 first-quarter but disappointed invest
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investment, and transparency about usage — The company
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a hot-fire test at Cape Canaveral on May 28, 2026, causing significant damage to the launch pad. The company will need months at minimum to recover from
Jerry Liu built one of the most installed pieces of AI plumbing of the last three years. Then he sat down and told me the framework era he helped create is over. The agent harness ate the abstraction
Helene Braun / CoinDesk: Mastercard says it plans to offer on-chain settlement using several regulated USD stablecoins, initially supporting USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD, and SoFiUSD — The company p
At Microsoft's annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives, including a super app, in-house reasoning models, a cybersecurity tool, and OpenClaw-
Routing and post-training open-source models won't only give you more accurate systems but also meaningfully faster and cheaper systems as most companies are currently learning (in addition to giving
Startup discovery platform @harmonic_ai rebuilt Scout, their AI platform using Deep Agents and LangSmith. Deep Agents: One frontier model + two tool sets (global company data and firm-specific context
Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, establishing a voluntary framework for the federal government to evaluate risks posed by advanced AI systems before release and encouraging companies t
Using open models and inference clouds (which serve open models) is a leading indicator of what is to come. The advantage of open weights is that you can train, serve, and continually improve your own
Microsoft Corp. today announced an updated chip for quantum computing called Majorana 2 that it says is 1,000 times more reliable in terms of qubit stability. According to the company, it opens the do
Blue Origin says it expects to fly its New Glenn rocket by the end of 2026 despite an explosion last week that destroyed the rocket and damaged the company's launch facility at Cape Canaveral Space Fo
Florida today became the first U.S. state to sue OpenAI Group PBC and its chief executive, alleging that its product ChatGPT can be harmful to its users and that the company has failed to make clear t
Israeli distributed denial-of-service resilience company MazeBolt Technologies Ltd. today launched RADAR VectorAI, a new module that uses artificial intelligence to generate previously unseen DDoS att
Microsoft just kicked off Build 2026 with a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella and other company leaders. As expected, it was filled with announcements, ranging from new Surface hardware to an always-on p
Microsoft Corp. announced an expansion to its artificial intelligence models and agentic AI infrastructure today that brings more data and context into the hands of developers and business users as th
Microsoft just announced 'Project Solara,' a new OS designed for gadgets that run AI agents, at Build 2026. The company is calling it 'a new platform built from the ground up to power agent-driven exp
arXiv:2512.06906v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Detecting the anomalies of web applications, important infrastructures for running modern companies and governments, is crucial for providing
Gary Marcus argues that SpaceX's valuation is significantly inflated, contending that the company is not worth the trillion-dollar valuations that have been suggested. The critique appears to challeng
Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted: Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital — UK company has deployed q
Shares of Palo Alto Networks Inc. edged down in late trading today despite the cybersecurity company beating expectations on earnings and revenue in its fiscal third quarter and raising its outlook fo
arXiv:2606.00341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI agents are increasingly deployed in real personal and corporate settings (email accounts, development workflows, company databases, etc.), safet
In the era of artificial intelligence, some companies have struggled to adopt artificial intelligence and others have pivoted to an AI framework that has yielded positive results. Snowflake Inc. this
Impulse Space Inc. today announced that it has closed a 500 million late-stage investment led by 137 Ventures and BANNER VC. The Series D round brings the company’s outside funding to over 1 billion.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a 'voluntary framework' for AI companies to share their frontier models with the federal government before they're released 'to promot
Workday Inc. today announced new capabilities aimed at providing developers new ways to build on top of its platform using their own tools. During DevCon 2026, the company’s annual developer conferenc
The Bot Company, a 2 billion San Francisco startup founded by Tesla and Cruise alumni, rented residential properties through Airbnb under false pretenses to conduct prototype testing on household robo
Google LLC parent company Alphabet Inc. is seeking to raise a massive 80 billion in equity capital through a stock sale in an effort to bankroll the ballooning costs of its artificial intelligence inf
Anthropic PBC today disclosed that it has confidentially filed to go public. The company didn’t share any details about its planned listing in the brief blog post that announced the move. Anthropic is
Mike Isaac / New York Times: Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an IPO, joining OpenAI and SpaceX in preparing to go public this year — The artificial intelligence company has seen explosi
Device intelligence company FingerprintJS Inc. today launched a preview of two products built to identify traffic from artificial intelligence assistants, addressing a detection gap that has opened as
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company knowingly released an unsafe product that could harm users. The suit cited instances of
Google's new '24/7' AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf. But I'm not sure it's worth the financial cost and potential privacy tradeoffs. The company gave me a
Processing millions of user reviews in real-time, under strict latency and cost constraints, is no easy task. Trustpilot has been doing exactly that with custom machine learning since long before larg
Bloomberg: Nasdaq, FTSE, and other index providers are aggressively shortening entry timelines to accommodate SpaceX's $75B IPO, as Elon Musk targets retail investors — The company's ambitious listing
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Strava is adding a $11.99 monthly fee for developer API access and moving public profiles and fitness club listings behind authentication to combat AI scraping — AI companies
In 2026, evaluation and analytics startups are undergoing a significant transformation from one-time assessment tools to continuous learning platforms, a shift that will prove fatal for many companies
Ina Fried / Axios: Sources: Microsoft and Nvidia will unveil the first Windows PCs powered by Nvidia SoCs, including devices from Surface and Dell, at Computex and Build 2026 — The company best known
Craig Campbell walked away from the river of investor money flowing into AI to create, of all things, a website. Sure, Campbell probably could have started an AI company. He's a former engineer at Met
CNN today opened a lawsuit against the AI firm Perplexity AI Inc., alleging the company has violated copyright protections by using artificial intelligence to rewrite its reporting, thereby underminin
stop asking for rationality @jeffreyleefunk! it won’t happen here! (actually, it will … eventually ...) @GaryMarcus As companies reduce AI use in effort to achieve productivity improvements in most co
Cognition, an AI company, raised 1 billion in Series D funding at a 26 billion valuation, indicating significant investor confidence in its technology and business model. The funding round reflects th
Autodesk Inc. has agreed to buy maintenance and operations software company MaintainX Inc. in an all-cash deal valued at about 3.6 billion, extending the design software maker beyond its core tools in
Google LLC today launched new enhancements to Chrome Enterprise, the company’s enterprise version of its Chrome browser, designed to provide greater administrative and security control to information
Anthropic is releasing Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, and the company is touting the model's 'honesty.' According to Anthropic, it trains 'all [its] models to be honest - for instance, to avoid making c
crazy that this was announced on the day tokenmaxxing died. Anthropic raised 65 billion in a funding round that valued the artificial intelligence company at 965 billion including the new investment,
Google created MapReduce more than 20 years ago to solve the scaling problems in data processing that the then young company was running into. The AI era that we are in now demands efficient, large-sc
Endava, a software services company, leverages OpenAI's Codex to transform its organizational operations into an agentic model where AI agents autonomously handle tasks and decision-making. The approa
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Semiconductor specialists Marvell Technology Inc. and Synopsys Inc. today posted quarterly revenue numbers that topped analyst expectations. The two companies also raised their guidance. Both attribut