Google gains 25M subscriptions in Q1, driven by YouTube and Google One

by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Technology

Google has added another 25 million paid subscriptions to its services over the past quarter, parent company Alphabet announced during its first-quarter earnings report on Wednesday. The company said it now has 350 million paid subscriptions across its services, up...

Fusion power startup Zap Energy pulls a partial pivot, adding nuclear fission to the mix

by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Technology

Nobody said building a fusion power plant would be easy. Physicists and engineers have been working for decades to crack the problem. But over the last year or so, fusion startup Zap Energy took a deeper look at its pathway to a working power plant and decided that it...

The retrieval rebuild: Why hybrid retrieval intent tripled as enterprise RAG programs hit the scale wall

by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Technology

Something shifted in enterprise RAG in Q1 2026. VB Pulse data spanning January through March tells a consistent story: the market stopped adding retrieval layers and started fixing the ones it already has. Call it the retrieval rebuild.The survey covered three...

IBM launches Bob with multi-model routing and human checkpoints to turn AI coding into a secure production system

by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Technology

Bringing AI agents into the enterprise software development lifecycle is fast becoming the norm. As developers experiment with new platforms, organizations are exposed to potential security and orchestration failures. Systems that work in pilots may fail once the...

Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise

by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Technology

Parallel Web Systems, the AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has raised a $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation led by Sequoia. Existing investors Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Spark...

AWS Quick’s personal knowledge graph is making orchestration decisions most control planes can’t see

by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Technology

Enterprise AI teams running centralized orchestration stacks now have a new variable to account for: AWS Quick, which expanded this week to a desktop-native agent that builds a persistent personal knowledge graph and executes actions across local files and SaaS tools...