Technology
FuriosaAI raises $620m at a $2.9bn valuation for its Nvidia rival chips
FuriosaAI, a Seoul-based maker of AI inference chips, has raised $620m in a Series D round. The round values it at about $2.9bn. South Korea’s National Growth Fund put in $280m, m…
Meta will now alert parents if teens 'repeatedly' search for self-harm content on Facebook
The company will also notify parents about conversations with Meta AI.
Ikea’s colorful donut-shaped smart lamp is $20 off
With its playful design, versatility, and relatively affordable price, the Ikea Varmblixt quickly became one of my colleague Jennifer Pattison Tuohy’s new favorite smart light pro…
OpenAI rewrites its AI rulebook around five core values
OpenAI has reorganised its Model Spec, the public rulebook for its AI, around five values led by faithfulness to human intent. It adds guidance on context and human agency, drops …
Aircall co-founder Olivier Pailhès returns as CEO to push AI voice agents
Olivier Pailhès, who co-founded Aircall in Paris in 2014, has returned as its chief executive. He replaces Scott Chancellor and takes over a business phone company that now sells …
Turning a solar power system into its own backup
Plant design allows it to run on either stored solar heat or combustion.
Deepgram buys Pipecat maker Daily and keeps the voice AI framework open
Voice AI company Deepgram is buying Daily, the maker of Pipecat, an open-source framework for building voice agents. Pipecat will stay open source and free under its existing BSD …
Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr
Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.
Canada adds C$2.5M to help 25 more Prairie firms adopt AI with Amii
Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, will work with 25 more small businesses in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba after federal agency PrairiesCan added C$2.5M. Tota…
Apple’s new laptop supports one of the coolest features for color pros
The new MacBook Pro brings with it a bunch of firsts for Apple laptops, the two flashiest being an OLED display and touchscreen functionality. But as an image-accuracy enthusiast,…
Serval raises $150m at $3bn valuation to replace ServiceNow with AI agents
Serval has raised $150m in a Series C round led by Sequoia, valuing the San Francisco company at $3bn. That is three times the $1bn valuation it reached in December, when it raise…
Utah charges Kalshi and its CEO with illegally promoting online gambling
Utah has filed criminal charges against Kalshi and its executives, accusing the prediction market of breaking anti-gambling laws, as reported by The Salt Lake Tribune and the Asso…
Alphabet’s AI commitments pass $1tn, its quarterly filing shows
Alphabet’s quarterly filing, published on Thursday, puts its future payments for computing, energy and data centres at more than $1tn. These Alphabet commitments do not appear on …
Alphabet shares fall 12% after Google says AI Mode searches earn less
By 9:35am in New York on Thursday, Alphabet had lost $511bn in market value, Julia Love and Davey Alba reported for Bloomberg. The shares were down more than 12%. It was the compa…
Data centers could send US climate pollution skyrocketing
The US power sector could release 42 percent more planet-heating carbon dioxide pollution by 2030 than it did in 2025 as it builds out more fossil fuel infrastructure to meet data…
Solink raises over $100M to turn security cameras into business data
Solink raised more than $100M led by Vertu Capital, with Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Golub Growth and Comcast Ventures joining. Its AI turns existing cameras in shops, restaurants…
The X ticker is free as Musk weighs a SpaceX-Tesla merger
No US stock trades under X since Nippon Steel bought US Steel last year. With SpaceX and Tesla exploring a merger, investors say Musk could claim the symbol, though he has not sai…
U.S. investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO
A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New York Time…
Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro keeps macOS familiar, Bloomberg finds
Bloomberg’s Chris Welch tried Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook Pro and found Apple took a measured approach, adding touch without reshaping macOS. Gestures felt smooth, but the t…
ServiceNow shares fall a record 25% after its bookings outlook misses
ServiceNow shares fell as much as 25% to $112.37 after markets opened in New York on Thursday. It was the biggest intraday drop since the company went public in 2012, Brody Ford r…
Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads
Google's negative cash flow balloons to -$9.06 billion, and stock price tumbles following Q3 earnings.
Leak exposes 41,000 Homeland Security staff, including ICE and CBP agents
Records on more than 41,000 employees and contractors of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are now online. They include names, email addresses, phone numbers, job title…
Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction
rained on 100 million square feet of building permits, dream wants to disrupt Autodesk with AI.
SuperMe raises $20M for its network of AI expert profiles
SuperMe is a network of AI profiles built from the knowledge of real-life experts. When you ask a question, the platform determines which experts are best suited to answer and cre…