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AI startups are eating the venture industry and the returns, so far, are good
Well, the data is out. AI startups accounted for 41% of the $128 billion in venture dollars raised by…
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Employees had to restrain a dancing humanoid robot after it went wild at a California restaurant
When we think about the existential threats of new technology, we’re usually thinking about something like the recent…
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Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says
Bots are taking over the web, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. In an interview at the SXSW…
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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…
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The Pentagon is developing alternatives to Anthropic, report says
After their dramatic falling out, it doesn’t seem as though Anthropic and the Pentagon are getting back together.…
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Steven Spielberg says he’s ‘never used AI’ in any of his films
Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg spoke out against the use of AI technology when used in creative endeavors in…
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How to watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote
Nvidia kicks off its annual GTC developer conference in San Jose, California, next week with CEO Jensen Huang’s…
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Google Maps is getting an AI ‘Ask Maps’ feature and upgraded ‘immersive’ navigation
Google announced on Thursday that Google Maps is introducing a Gemini-powered conversational “Ask Maps” feature along with an…
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Breakout Ventures raises $114M fund to back AI science startups
Breakout Ventures has closed a $114 million Fund III to back AI-focused early-stage startups working in scientific fields…
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Meta didn’t buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web
When news broke Tuesday morning that Meta bought Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, it may have…