Startups & Funding
Cursor Deal Puts US On Track For Record Startup M&A Year
The article discusses a record year for startup M&A in 2026, highlighted by SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of...
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AI Agents
World Cup Teams Are in a Race for AI Dominance
FIFA is providing an AI agent tool for World Cup teams to use equally, raising questions about whether this levels the...
Wired AI
Ethics & Regulation
British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted
A WIRED investigation examines the UK police's experiment with predictive analytics technology, revealing significant...
Wired AI
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Baidu Releases Unlimited OCR, a 3B Model That Keeps the KV Cache Flat for Long-Document Parsing
Baidu open-sourced Unlimited OCR, a 3B-parameter MoE model that efficiently parses long documents using Reference...
MarkTechPost
AI Agents
Improving the speed and energy-efficiency of AI agents
Murakkab is a new system designed to optimize the speed and energy efficiency of multistep AI workflows used in AI...
MIT News AI
Startups & Funding
Ornn raises $33M to help companies buy and sell AI compute as a commodity like oil
Ornn AI Inc. raised $33 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz's crypto-focused fund and Galaxy Ventures to...
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Startups & Funding
Agentic infrastructure startup Seltz raises $12.5M to help AI agents search the web for answers
Seltz Inc., an agentic search startup, raised $12.5 million in seed funding led by Speedinvest and B Capital to build...
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Startups & Funding
Memory maker SK hynix files for $29B US IPO amid AI demand
SK hynix, the world's largest HBM memory supplier, filed for a $29.4 billion IPO on Nasdaq, riding strong demand from...
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Startups & Funding
Qualcomm shares jump 14% on Modular acquisition, guidance upgrade
Qualcomm announced the acquisition of inference software startup Modular Inc. and previewed two upcoming AI chips,...
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Startups & Funding
Cerebras stock plunges after earnings as CEO says margin outlook was misunderstood
Cerebras, an AI chipmaker, saw its stock plunge following its first earnings report as a public company, which included...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Grammarly parent Superhuman buys AI detector GPTZero
Superhuman Inc. (formerly Grammarly) has acquired GPTZero, a startup that provides AI detection tools to identify...
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Startups & Funding
AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient
Contrary to predictions that AI would eliminate engineering jobs, new data from SignalFire shows that engineers are...
TechCrunch Startups
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Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks
Companies are implementing token rationing and budget controls to prevent employees from depleting AI API quotas with...
TechCrunch AI
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Gradium Launches stt-translate and s2s-translate, Real-Time Speech Translation Models Beating gpt-realtime-translate on Accuracy and Latency
Gradium released stt-translate and s2s-translate, real-time speech translation models that support 20 language pairs...
MarkTechPost
AI Agents
How to Design an OpenHarness Style Agent Runtime with Tools, Memory, Permissions, Skills, and Multi-Agent Coordination
This tutorial demonstrates how to build an OpenHarness-style agent runtime from scratch, covering core components like...
MarkTechPost
Ethics & Regulation
I Met With China’s Top AI Experts. They’re Freaking Out, Too
The article reports on a meeting with China's top AI experts who express significant concerns about the AI arms race...
Wired AI
Startups & Funding
Qualcomm to Acquire AI Platform Developer Modular
Qualcomm is acquiring Modular, an AI platform developer, to expand its AI infrastructure capabilities from edge devices...
AI Business
Ethics & Regulation
The $27 million Al proxy war over Alex Bores ends in a draw
A $27 million political proxy war between Anthropic and OpenAI over AI regulation ended in a draw when Alex Bores, a...
The Verge AI
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Snowflake CEO finds GLM-5.2 competitive with Opus 4.7 at a fraction of the cost
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 model demonstrates competitive performance with Claude Opus 4.7 on coding benchmarks while costing...
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