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Microsoft’s AI data center push is colliding with its clean power goals
Microsoft is weighing whether to delay or scale back one of its most ambitious clean energy goals as its rapid buildout of AI data centers puts pressure on its ability to meet those targets. Microsoft has yet to make any public announcements, but according to...
Robinhood’s venture fund IPO attracted 150,000+ retail investors, CEO says
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is touting the success of the fintech’s new Ventures Fund I, which allows retail investors to invest in private tech companies like Stripe, Oura, Databricks, OpenAI, and others, through a publicly traded fund listed on the NYSE. “We had...
Market research is too slow for the AI era, so Brox built 60,000 identical ‘digital twins’ of real people you can survey instantly, repeatedly
In a world where a viral TikTok video can cause a brand to trend globally in mere hours, the traditional market research cycle — often spanning 12 weeks — is becoming a liability. The lag between a survey question and the answers from a wide (or targeted) pool of...
Chrome on Android now supports approximate instead of precise location sharing
Chrome on Android now lets users share their approximate location with websites rather than their precise location, Google announced this week. The tech giant says that while some cases require precise location, such as when you’re placing a delivery order or trying...
Google updates AI search to include ‘expert advice’ from Reddit and other web forums
Google is updating search to refine its AI experience by adding additional context to links, like conversations from web forums, as well as a feature that highlights links from a user’s news subscriptions. While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users...
Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full-stack, demo shows
Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, and it comes with surprise hands. In a demo video, the company showcased various advanced tasks performed by a set of robotic...
Tinder owner Match Group is slowing hiring to pay for its increased use of AI tools
You might think the big story out of Match Group’s first-quarter earnings is Tinder’s turnaround. The dating app’s revenue is slightly up again after quarter-after-quarter of declines. But we’d like to point to a comment the chief financial officer made about how the...
Apple to pay $250M to settle lawsuit over Siri’s delayed AI features
Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit over how it marketed its AI features ahead of the launch of the iPhone 16. The Financial Times was the first to report the news. The lawsuit alleged that Apple exaggerated the breadth of features...
Ethos raises $22.75M from a16z for its expert network with voice onboarding
When companies are looking for opinions or advice on a project, they tend to go to LinkedIn or use expert networks such as GLG, Third Bridge, or AlphaSights. But they often don’t find quality inputs, despite their searches. Today, these sites ask experts to fill in a...
The leaderboard “you can’t game,” funded by the companies it ranks
Loading the player… Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has emerged as the de facto public leaderboard for...
Facebook launches a new monetization program to attract popular creators from TikTok, YouTube
Facebook announced on Wednesday that it’s launching “Creator Fast Track,” a new program designed to help creators grow on Facebook with guaranteed pay and increased content reach. The social network also shared that it paid creators nearly $3 billion through its...
This startup wants to make enterprise software look more like a prompt
Every new technology creates a new environment in which we work, but it’s not clear how AI will do that. One possibility is that the interface disappears entirely. That’s the vision of Josh Sirota, who founded the startup Eragon back in August and has just raised $12...
Sequen snags $16M to bring TikTok-style personalization tech to any consumer company
At Etsy, Zoë Weil helped to drive a billion-dollar increase in gross merchandise volume within a single year by improving the online marketplace’s AI ranking systems. With her new startup, Sequen, she aims to bring her and her co-founders’ years of AI research and...
DOD says Anthropic’s ‘red lines’ make it an ‘unacceptable risk to national security’
The U.S. Department of Defense said on Tuesday evening that Anthropic poses an “unacceptable risk to national security,” marking the agency’s first rebuttal to the AI lab’s lawsuits challenging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision last month to label the company...
Mave Health aims to improve attention and mood with its brain-stimulating headset
Over the past few years, there has been a steady influx of startups trying to treat issues like depression, period pain, PMS, anxiety and insomnia by using wearables that apply electrical, magnetic or ultrasonic signals to stimulate the brain. San Francisco-based Mave...
Enterprise AI agents keep operating from different versions of reality — Microsoft says Fabric IQ is the fix
In 2026, data engineers working with multi-agent systems are hitting a familiar problem: Agents built on different platforms don’t operate from a shared understanding of the business. The result isn’t model failure — it’s hallucination driven by fragmented context.The...
Open source Mamba 3 arrives to surpass Transformer architecture with nearly 4% improved language modeling, reduced latency
The generative AI era began for most people with the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022, but the underlying technology — the "Transformer" neural network architecture that allows AI models to weigh the importance of different words in a sentence (or pixels in an...
Kalshi’s legal troubles pile up, as Arizona files first ever criminal charges over ‘illegal gambling business’
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed criminal charges against prediction market platform Kalshi, for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business in the state without a license and for election wagering. The 20-count complaint, filed in Maricopa County...
Mistral bets on ‘build-your-own AI’ as it takes on OpenAI, Anthropic in the enterprise
Most enterprise AI projects fail not because companies lack the technology, but because the models they’re using don’t understand their business. The models are often trained on the internet, rather than decades of internal documents, workflows, and institutional...
Mistral AI launches Forge to help companies build proprietary AI models, challenging cloud giants
Mistral AI on Monday launched Forge, an enterprise model training platform that allows organizations to build, customize, and continuously improve AI models using their own proprietary data — a move that positions the French AI lab squarely against the hyperscale...
Why Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate
Y Combinator’s famed CEO Garry Tan told a SXSW audience that he’s got “cyber psychosis” and is barely sleeping because he’s so excited to be working with AI agents. “I sleep, like, four hours a night right now,” he told his interviewer, fellow VC Bill Gurley, during...
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Microsoft Buys LinkedIn as Part of Big Data Strategy
Microsoft Buys LinkedIn for Billions in Pursuit of Big Data You might have heard that Microsoft recently acquired LinkedIn, the social media platform that centers on business connections and networking. The deal cost the major tech company a staggering $26.2 billion,...
Work From Home? Mitigate These 3 IT Risks
Safe, Secure, And Remote: 3 Ways To Protect Enterprise Data Remote workers come to your company in two main ways: some are current employees who manage working from the home with appropriate scheduling and space, while others are hired specifically as remote workers...
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