So, we're getting Prada Meta AI glasses, right?: Mark Zuckerberg was at Prada's fashion week event in Milan, leaving everyone to wonder if we're getting Meta AI glasses under the Prada brand. Read More
Google paid startup Form Energy $1B for its massive 100-hour battery: The deal paves the way for Form Energy to raise a new funding round before potentially going public next year. Read More
Mistral AI inks a deal with global consulting giant Accenture: Mistral AI lands a partnership with Accenture, the consultant that has also recently announced partnerships with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic. Read More
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Self-driving truck startup Einride raises $113M PIPE ahead of public debut: The proceeds will support Einride's technology roadmap, global expansion, and autonomous deployments in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Read More
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Google launches Nano Banana 2 model with faster image generation: Google is making Nano Banana 2 a default model in Gemini app and in AI mode. Read More
Figma partners with OpenAI to bake in support for Codex: Figma is integrating OpenAI's coding assistant Codex a week after it announced a similar integration with Anthropic's Claude Code. Read More
Cisco says hackers have been exploiting a critical bug to break into big customer networks since 2023: The U.S. government and its allies said hackers have been exploiting the newly identified bug in Cisco networking gear around the world for years, and urged organizations to patch. Read More
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Kindred talks home-swapping platform for travelers, Chef Robotics introduces AI into commercial kitchens, and Character.AI addresses chatbot safety with teens.
A VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source's funding problem, permanently: A group of well-known open source programmers and a VC have launched the Open Source Endowment. They hope this new method will provide funding for good. Read More
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: This isn't our first SaaSpocalypse: Salesforce reported a solid year-end earnings and then pulled out all the stops to ward off more talk of the death of its business to AI. Read More
Jest, a marketplace for messaging games, is challenging the app store status quo: Jest, a marketplace for messaging games, emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding. Read More
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Tech firms are setting the pace in global trade preparedness, with 91% confident about international growth in the next two years. 79% have made or considered changes to where assembly or processing takes place to mitigate tariffs. Liquidity is a top priority, as 71% have seen an increase in short-term financing to address working capital needs.
Figma partners with OpenAI to bake in support for Codex: Figma is integrating OpenAI's coding assistant Codex a week after it announced a similar integration with Anthropic's Claude Code. Read More
Instagram now alerts parents if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content: Parents will be informed if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content and offered resources. Read More
Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders: Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside applications like a person with a laptop would. Read More
Nvidia has another record quarter amid record capex spends: "The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company's earnings. Read More
Trace raises $3M to solve the AI agent adoption problem in enterprise: Trace is launching with $3 million in seed funding, including investment from Y Combinator, Zeno Ventures, Transpose Platform Management, Goodwater Capital, Formosa Capital, and WeFunder. Read More
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How to avoid bad hires in early-stage startups: Lucena got the idea for Mappa after trying to build a marketing team but continually feeling like she had made the wrong hires. Read More
