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‘We have maybe 20 months’ to rebuild for AI agents, Meta’s infrastructure VP tells VB Transform 2026
Organizations need to transform to meet the needs of agentic AI.Meta VP of Engineering Barak Yagour opened his talk at VB Transform 2026 wearing a pair of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, a small sign of how far AI has already worked its way into physical life. His argument...
Spotify expands parent-managed accounts to users on its free tier
Spotify announced on Wednesday that it’s bringing parent-managed accounts for kids to its free tier. Families in the U.S., U.K., Australia, France, Germany, and the Netherlands can now create a “Managed Account” for their child, a feature previously available only to...
Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models
AI models are becoming ever more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big question. In a bid to shape that future, labs like Anthropic and OpenAI have spun up separate businesses dedicated to deploying AI engineers to their customers’...
Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls
Voice AI startups’ biggest unlock has been handling calls for enterprises in areas like sales, marketing and customer support. Large organizations are offloading calls to voice model developers like ElevenLabs and Deepgram; infrastructure companies like Vapi, Retell,...
Reelful’s AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media
A new iOS app called Reelful uses AI to automatically turn photos and video clips from your camera roll into polished TikTok- and Instagram Reels-style videos for social media. Reelful is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional...
Why Realta Fusion is building a fusion reactor at an old hot dog factory
Realta Fusion has spent the last two years looking for somewhere to build its research and development facility. In the end, it chose the old Oscar Mayer factory in Madison, Wisconsin. “From sausages to fusion,” Kieran Furlong, co-founder and CEO of Realta Fusion,...
Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet
Vint Cerf says his favorite place is where he’s never been before. One of the architects of the protocols behind the open internet, Cerf left Google after 20 years last week, but he’s not done thinking about the digital future. Starting today, he’s advising Innovation...
Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C
Indian AI coding startup Emergent has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, a five-fold jump in six months. The funding round was led by private equity firm Creaegis. New investors MNI Ventures-Claypond, Sentinel...
Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery
Google Images, the tech giant’s image search engine, is taking on Pinterest with its latest redesign that turns the site into a browsable, dynamic gallery of images from across the web. Google is also adding a way for users to create AI images right in Search, as it...
AI hit the memory wall — now it needs a new context tier
Presented by SolidigmAs inference workloads evolve from discrete question-and-answer exchanges into persistent, multi-step agentic systems, GPU availability is no longer the most critical AI bottleneck. Instead, the bottleneck has migrated from compute to context,...
SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open-source AI lab
First came Anthropic, then Google. Now, open-source AI startup Reflection is tapping SpaceX for its abundant source of AI chips. Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia’s latest GB300 AI chips and...
No Claude Fable 5? No problem: Sakana achieves frontier performance with new Fugu multi-model, auto synthesis system
Last night, the increasingly enterprise-focused AI startup Sakana launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system that delivers frontier-level AI performance through a single, OpenAI-compatible API. Designed for developers, enterprises, and nations seeking...
WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India’s CRED founder Kunal Shah, and invests $900M in startup
Meta is betting on India for WhatsApp’s next chapter, naming entrepreneur Kunal Shah to lead the messaging app and succeed Will Cathcart, who is stepping down after nearly seven years at the helm to take on a new product-building role at the company. The move comes...
Why agentic enterprises need to become learning systems
Presented by SplunkEvery day, organizations learn things their AI systems never get to use.A security analyst corrects an AI-generated investigation. A network engineer identifies the root cause of a recurring outage. An observability team discovers that a pattern of...
Researchers introduce Self-Harness, a framework that lets AI agents rewrite their own rules, boosting performance up to 60%
Not every company can or should build their own frontier AI language model. However, the harness controlling the model is something that most enterprises can and should customize for their specific purposes.Of course, this is easier said than done. Agent harnesses are...
Instagram looks to take on streaming services with longer-form, episodic and live formats for its TV app
Instagram is exploring new formats in an apparent effort to bring its platform to more TV users. The social network, which launched a TV app last year, says it’s going to experiment with longer-form content, episodic series, and Live TV. Instagram said it is exploring...
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Founders don’t grow alone. They learn from peers tackling similar challenges, connect with those who have already navigated the road ahead, and build relationships with investors aligned with their vision. For the next five days, save up to $190 on your pass...
Lucid Motors’ new CEO cuts 18% of staff to ‘simplify the company’
Lucid Motors is laying off 18% of its workforce, or around 1,500 employees, just four months after the EV maker cut 12% of its staff. The company said on Monday that it has also “eliminated the second shift” of EV production at its factory in Casa Grande, Arizona. The...
Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its US footprint
After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early-stage investor Seedcamp said on Monday that it had raised $320 million for its latest fund which will see it expanding its presence in the United States. Fund VII is the investment firm’s largest so far, double the $180...
Klue hack results in data breach at several cybersecurity firms
A hacking group has taken credit for a breach at market intelligence provider Klue that allowed hackers to steal reams of data from the company’s corporate customers, which include some of the biggest names in cybersecurity. Vancouver-based Klue, which lets companies...
Ethan Thornton is trying to do everything all at once
Ethan Thornton dropped out of MIT at 19 to build weapons. The first one, a hydrogen-powered system he prototyped with parts from Home Depot and Amazon, didn’t work out — “hydrogen was just a bad bet in general,” he told me this past week at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC...
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How Can Cloud Services Grow Your Business?
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The Latest Technologies In Online Gaming
In the past, video games were mostly played in isolation. It was you against the machine. The Internet has changed all that. Now games can be played online and turned into a social experience. This has made the activity even more fun for long-time players. It has also...
First Cloud Community For PCB Designers Is Launched
Designing printed circuit boards was once a skill reserved for those with in-depth knowledge of the field. However, the industry is changing and that’s largely a result of DIY PCB design, allowing hobbyists to create their own printed circuit boards at home. Whilst...