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Business / Crunchbase News ·
Siggy has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to build a mental health service that uses AI to collect patients’ histories and track progress between appointments with licensed clinicians, the startup told Crunchbase News exclusively.
Tech / Ars Technica ·
Democrats erased the GOP’s trifecta edge and gained new power over energy policy.
Tech / The Verge ·
Blue Origin plans to do its next New Glenn rocket launch in January 2027, according to CNBC and the Financial Times, which cite a memo from CEO Dave Limp sent to staff. The new timeline follows a May launchpad explosion that damaged Blue Origin's New Glenn launchpad ahead of a flight that would have…
Startups / EU-Startups ·
The European Commission has adopted the 2027 European Innovation Council (EIC) Work Programme, allocating €1.8 billion to support DeepTech startups, scale-ups and researchers across Europe. The funding package aims to help promising technologies move from early-stage research to commercialisation,…
Startups / TechCrunch ·
Zipline raised $1.5 billion and ramped up its partnership with Walmart.
Tech / Wired ·
A day after the US midterm elections gave Democrats control of Congress, Onion CEO Ben Collins and comedian Patti Harrison spoke to WIRED about the salve of satire during politically fraught times.
AI / TechCrunch ·
The deal is expected to support the development of DBX Agent Cloud, a new storage platform aimed at developers building AI models and agents.
Tech / The Next Web ·
UiPath founder and CEO Daniel Dines would rather give a task to an AI agent than to a person, as long as the agent does it as well as a human. He would choose the agent even when it costs more, he told TNW. Dines spoke to Cristian Dina at FUSION in Dubai for the […] This story continues at The…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Uber Eats is now Amazon’s restaurant delivery partner for Prime members in the US, replacing Grubhub. The two companies announced the deal on Thursday. Prime members can now order Uber Eats on Amazon, on the website or in the Amazon Shopping app, without an Uber account. They pay no delivery fee…
AI / The Decoder ·
Meta is acquiring AI coding startup Conductor, which lets developers control multiple AI coding agents at once. On the same day, OpenAI announced plans to acquire Pierre Computer, and Anthropic already bought Stainless back in May. The deals follow a pattern: AI models are becoming…
Tech / The Next Web ·
AI has given us self-driving cars, movies made from prompts, proactive agents and, soon, humanoids. Yet booking the same Uber we take every morning still means unlocking a phone, opening an app, entering a destination and confirming. Joining a meeting still means hunting for the link, opening…
Startups / Sifted ·
AI / TechCrunch ·
Aina's ring can also take calls and help you dictate notes on your Mac.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Anthropic compute costs grew faster than its revenue last quarter. Compute took 58% of revenue in the third quarter, up from 48%. TechCrunch’s Russell Brandom found the figures in Anthropic’s amended IPO filing. Revenue rose to $17bn, from $11.6bn the quarter before, as we reported on Monday. But…
AI / The Decoder ·
OpenAI is responding to the clear vote by US voters against new data centers with voluntary commitments for future sites. The pledges only apply to facilities OpenAI operates itself, though, and a large share of its infrastructure is built by partners like Oracle. Voters rejected new data centers in…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Anthropic has released FlashProve, an open-source prototype that lets anyone check that an AI reply came from the model a provider says it used. The company published the code, a technical report and formal proofs in a research post on Monday. Today a user cannot tell whether a router quietly…
Tech / The Verge ·
Android fans with a bit of iPhone Duo envy, take note: The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 is discounted to $1,599.99 at both Amazon and Best Buy, a hefty $300 markdown from its usual price, and just $50 higher than the lowest we’ve seen. Considering the device only launched a few months ago, you’re…
AI / The Decoder ·
Anthropic signed its first licensing deal with a news publisher just ahead of the US midterm elections. The article Anthropic reverses course and pays for news content for the first time appeared first on The Decoder.
AI / The Decoder ·
OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model apparently sabotaged AI safety research on purpose. It invented obstacles, withheld solutions, and performed about 40 percent worse on safety tasks than on comparable other tasks. Removing a flawed training dataset fixed the problem, but OpenAI can't fully rule out…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Uber president Jill Hazelbaker is joining OpenAI as its chief corporate affairs officer, the company announced on Tuesday. She will lead OpenAI’s global communications and corporate positioning. Hazelbaker will report to co-founder and president Greg Brockman and starts in early December, OpenAI…
AI / The Decoder ·
Tech companies are cutting internal AI spending, and Apple is the latest to follow suit. The article Apple slashes internal AI budgets, with deeper cuts still planned appeared first on The Decoder.
AI / The Verge ·
Meta now lets you have voice conversations with your Muse AI agent in real time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today. The feature has been rolled out to me, and I gave it a spin on the iOS app while writing this article. As you chat with your Muse agent, the avatar at the top of […]
Tech / The Next Web ·
Dropbox plans to acquire Tigris Data, a startup that provides cloud storage for AI workloads, for $350M. The company announced the deal alongside the launch of a new service aimed at businesses and developers building AI applications and agents. Called DBX Agent Cloud, the service is designed to…
Business / Crunchbase News ·
Dropbox has announced plans to acquire Tigris Data for $350 million in a transaction the company told Crunchbase News would mark its largest acquisition since its founding in 2007.