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Application security startup Boost Security Inc. today announced two acquisitions and an additional 4 million in funding as it builds out what it pitches as an artificial intelligence-native defense p

Corgi Insurance Inc., an artificial intelligence-native insurance carrier built for startups, revealed today that it has raised 160 million in new funding at a 1.3 billion valuation to expand its star

Richard Nieva / Forbes: Corgi, which provides insurance for startups and uses AI to generate quotes, manage claims, and more, raised a 160M Series B led by TCV at a 1.3B valuation — Named after the co

Tomofun, the Taiwan-headquartered pet-tech startup behind the Furbo Pet Camera, is redefining how pet owners interact with their pets remotely. To reduce costs and maintain accuracy, Tomofun turned to

On May 6, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated the FCC's rules prohibiting digital discrimination in broadband access . The court held that the FCC erred by adopting a dispar

The rise of AI coding agents has commoditized code generation, exposing a deeper challenge for software teams: the non-coding friction that consumes the vast majority of a developer’s day. Fixing that

Koyena Das / Reuters: DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to 4.04B, vs. 4.14B est., and forecasts Q2 marketplace gross order value above estimates; DASH jumps 11%+ after hours — DoorDash (DASH.O) o

ElevenLabs Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence models optimized for audio processing, today announced that several dozen investors have joined its latest funding round. The startup first clos

Christopher Kuo / Wall Street Journal: FanDuel CEO Amy Howe departs after five years, succeeded by President Christian Genetski, as parent company Flutter reports MAUs fell 3% YoY to 14.4M in Q1 2026

“How will this look on me?” It’s the question every online fashion shopper asks, and one that most retailers still can’t answer well. Breuninger, a fashion and lifestyle company based in Germany, thou

Shares of Fortinet Inc. surged more than 15% in late trading today after the cybersecurity company reported strong beats in revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2026 first quarter and lifted its full-ye

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Germany-based eleQtron, which develops trapped-ion quantum computing processors using proprietary tech, raised a €57M Series A led by Schwarz Digits — With new funding, e

Google DeepMind has entered a research partnership with Fenris Creations (formerly CCP Games) focused on advancing AI understanding of complex, dynamic systems by exploring long-horizon planning, memo

Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired's Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page n

Google is updating its AI Search features to make it easier for users to find information from sources they know and trust. One of the more notable changes introduces 'a preview of perspectives' from

NASA has unveiled an expansive strategy to establish a permanent human base on the Moon, outlining a plan that includes 73 landing missions. The agency aims to undertake at least one surface landing e

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An analysis of more than 5 million births nationwide identified an ongoing drop in newborns receiving a vitamin K shot that helps prevent dangerous bleeding , with the number of babies not receiving t

When it comes to artificial intelligence, enterprises want speed, lower cost and security. For IBM Corp., these are the value points it wants to provide for its hybrid AI customers. The computing gian

Neil J Kanatt / Reuters: Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to 1.02B, GTV up 13% to 10.29B, and orders up 10%, compared with a 16% growth a year earlier; CART drops 8.18% — Instacart (CART.O) on

Microsoft's LinkedIn chief, Ryan Roslansky, took on an expanded role at the company as head of Office last year, and he's now getting more responsibilities as part of the latest leadership reshuffle i

Cloud project management provider monday.com Ltd. today relaunched itself as an “AI work platform,” repositioning itself around context-aware artificial intelligence agents that execute tasks alongsid

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe confirmed that the company is developing undisclosed variants of the R2, hinting at both a pickup truck and an 'R2X' performance model shortly after starting volume production o

Carly Nairn / Courthouse News Service: Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI

I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone's minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testif

SpaceX's IPO will give CEO Elon Musk 'virtually unchecked executive authority' and limit shareholder rights to sue the company. The company combines supervoting shares, mandatory arbitration, stricter

This Databricks article examines how distributed systems architectures need to be redesigned for serverless computing environments, addressing the unique performance and reliability challenges that ar

Jen Judson / Bloomberg: Scale AI wins a 500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making, after receiving a 100M deal in 2025 — The Pentagon aw

Scott Calvert / Wall Street Journal: Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage that are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong — AI

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Snap reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to 1.53B, in line with est., and says it ended its 400M Perplexity deal announced in November; SNAP drops 4%+ after hours — Snap shares dropp

The Information: Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms — Private equity firms B

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: Blue Origin outlines a new employee stock plan to quell staff unrest and make its incentives more competitive with SpaceX — Rocket maker hopes to quell em

Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US and China are considering recurring talks on the security risks posed by AI models, with Scott Bessent leading the American side — Washington and Be

SpaceX is transitioning from the highly successful Falcon 9 rocket program toward the next generation as the Starship program enters its operational phase. SpaceX is preparing Starship V3, a larger an

xAI: SpaceX signs an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, and says Anthropic expressed interest in partnering for orbital compute capacity — SpaceXAI has signed an agreement with

Dana Goldstein / New York Times: Study: US schools with strict cellphone bans in class have not seen higher test scores on average so far, but students reported a greater sense of well-being — Cellpho

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured the 'Hello, World' photograph of Earth from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission on April 2, 2026, during the spacecraft's outbound journey toward th

Databricks describes their approach to handling massive-scale observability and monitoring infrastructure that processes 10 trillion samples daily, moving beyond conventional monitoring solutions. The

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: A US court sentences a Latvian national to 8.5 years for acting as a negotiator for Russia's Karakurt ransomware group — A Latvian national extradited to the United S

Artificial intelligence data center operator IREN Ltd. today announced plans to acquire Mirantis Inc., a provider of infrastructure management software. The all-stock transaction is worth 625 million.

Data quality is a foundational prerequisite for successful AI applications, often more important than model complexity or sophistication. The article emphasizes that clean, well-organized data directl

Reuters: AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to 10.25B, vs. 9.89B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 7%+ after hours — Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) f

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the availability of its Apple Intelligence features. The proposed settlement would a

The next update to Apple's operating systems could allow users to choose their preferred AI model for running Apple Intelligence. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to allow third

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a CA federal court to resolve a false advertising class action lawsuit over the launch of a “personalized” Siri in 2024 — iPhone bu

The artificial intelligence era is widening the gap between winners and laggards, and the delta is not only determined by who has the most AI but also how deeply AI is embedded into business processes