The share of U.S. startup funding going to companies with Black founders in 2025 remained low, even as overall funding ticked slightly higher, Crunchbase data shows.
While Africa’s innovation ecosystem is growing rapidly, it still faces major challenges, writes Mind the Bridge’s Alberto Onetti, who argues that the continent’s weak electrical grid infrastructure and limited domestic venture capital will need large-scale public and private investment to unlock its economic and technological potential.
Generative AI company Anthropic announced on Thursday that it has raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, more than doubling its post-money valuation to a staggering $965 billion.
A unanimous bp board vote ousted Albert Manifold with immediate effect, and the mechanics of how it happened matter for HR leaders.
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Healthcare’s biggest AI roadblock isn’t the tech—it’s how we perceive it.
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When top experts convene, CHROs get the real story: what looks like tech transformation is, at its core, human transformation.
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“Employers must now prepare for dual compliance at both federal and state levels, and advisors play a critical role in ensuring they’re ready,” said Wes Hill, vice president, regulatory affairs, for RxBenefits.
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The percentage of employers that stuck with the insurer in spite of the increases was high, Brian Evanko reported.
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Google Pay is overhauling its payment infrastructure for an impending wave of transactions from AI agents. The latest updates introduce the Universal Commerce Protocol and a new server architecture, positioning Google Pay as a central clearinghouse for purchases executed by autonomous agents rather than human users. AI agents – designed to perform tasks like booking […]
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Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 brings dynamic workflows and cheaper fast mode to Claude Code, now in research preview
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Liquid AI’s LFM2.5-8B-A1B activates 1.5B of 8.3B parameters, offering 128K context, reasoning, and tool calling on consumer hardware.
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Explore OpenAI’s Frontier Governance Framework and how our AI safety, security, and risk practices align with emerging EU and California regulations.
Learn how Endava uses Codex to build an agentic organization, accelerating software delivery and reducing requirements analysis from weeks to hours.
New mothers working in software development are staring down an AI-pilled workplace they barely recognize.
The pale-blue Ojai vehicles will start picking up members of the public in California and Arizona in the next few weeks.
Today, I’m talking with Wassym Bensaid, the chief software officer at Rivian, and the co-CEO of Rivian’s platform joint venture with Volkswagen, which everyone just calls RV Tech. That joint venture kicked off about a year and a half ago with a nearly $6 billion investment from Volkswagen. It effectively puts Wassym in charge of […]
CNN has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity, claiming that the startup’s AI tools generate “verbatim” copies of its work, as reported earlier by CNN. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court on Thursday, also alleges that Perplexity provides users with information locked behind CNN’s subscription. Perplexity, which offers an AI “answer” engine along with […]
Apple’s long-awaited Siri overhaul, expected to arrive in iOS 27, might look a lot like ChatGPT with a splash of Liquid Glass. Renders from Bloomberg offer a preview of iOS 27, including the new app and chat interface for Siri. The renders are “based on information viewed by Bloomberg and people with knowledge of [Apple’s] […]
New features coming to YouTube could make it better for listening to podcasts, rolling out to Premium subscribers starting today on Android and coming later to iOS. A new “on-the-go mode” shifts YouTube into an audio-first layout, with larger, simplified playback buttons, a still image in place of the video, and a timeline showing video […]
Next month’s Tribeca Festival will include the premiere of an AI-generated film: Dreams of Violets. The 75-minute film is a fictional dramatization of the Iranian government’s mass killing of protestors in January, with the people and images fully created by AI, as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. Dreams of Violets cost $2,000 to make […]
Anthropic is releasing Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, and the company is touting the model’s “honesty.” According to Anthropic, it trains “all [its] models to be honest – for instance, to avoid making claims that they can’t support.” But it notes that “a general problem with AI models is that they sometimes jump to conclusions, […]
Microsoft is launching a revamped version of Microsoft 365 Copilot, offering a cleaner design that the company claims loads twice as fast. As part of this update, Copilot will provide more reliable and structured responses that are easier to scan, according to Microsoft. The redesign, which is rolling out across desktop and mobile devices, comes […]
A new crop of AI labs are focused on recursive self-improvement — but the goal is proving elusive.
New renders offer a closer look at Apple’s planned AI overhaul for iOS 27, including a redesigned Siri experience and standalone Siri app.
Sesame’s new iOS app brings its conversational AI agents to the public, offering more natural back-and-forth interactions designed to feel less like traditional chatbots and more like talking to a person.
Elon Musk is publicly reframing xAI’s massive Anthropic compute deal as short-term and cancellable, despite SpaceX’s own S-1 filing describing payments through May 2029.
The new Opus model comes with a tool called Dynamic Workflows, for coordinating swarms of subagents.
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Large exchanges are designing derivative products around AI tokens, which are increasingly being considered less a computational output and more a raw material input, like electricity or bandwidth.
Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, marking what could be the AI startup’s final private fundraise before a highly anticipated IPO.
Asana will incorporate StackAI into its growing suite of AI workflow tools.
As AI agents move from experiments to production, AWS, Cloudflare, and others are redesigning cloud infrastructure for a future dominated by machine-generated internet traffic instead of human users.
Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rides Big Tech’s data centre spending spree to 75% gains in 2026
World’s highest-grossing law firm plans to put the ‘collective intelligence’ of its lawyers into a tech platform
Governance of new technologies must be determined by elected officials rather than fastest moving companies
The melancholy of slaying monsters; GCHQ; Maga hogs at the trough; volcanoes
