Microsoft’s annual Build conference has always been a kind of scoreboard for the company’s AI ambitions. This year, though, it felt less like a progress report and more like a declaration of intent—especially in the shadow of Microsoft’s shifting relationship…
Meta is widening the aperture on AI customer support. WhatsApp Business’s AI agent—previously limited in reach—has now rolled out globally, according to reporting from TechCrunch. The move matters for two reasons: first, it signals that Meta is treating conversational automation…
Coralogix has raised $200 million in a Series F round, valuing the company at $1.6 billion. The news lands less than a year after its prior funding event, a pace that signals investors aren’t treating “AI monitoring” as a niche…
Google’s AI boom is colliding with a less glamorous but increasingly urgent resource: water. As data centers multiply to support machine learning workloads, cloud services, and the infrastructure behind generative AI, communities in the United States have raised alarms about…
In a move that could reshape how publishers deal with AI-powered search, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has imposed a new conduct rule on Google requiring the company to give website owners meaningful control over whether their content…
Hyperscalers are entering a familiar phase of the technology cycle—except this time the pressure is coming from two directions at once. On one side, demand for cloud capacity and AI compute continues to expand faster than most traditional infrastructure planning…
AI has a way of arriving in public life like weather: first as a forecast, then as a storm of headlines, and only later—if you’re lucky—as something you can actually measure. For many people the question isn’t “what can it…
Industry leaders are beginning to talk about a future that sounds almost like science fiction, but is increasingly treated as an engineering roadmap: “recursive self-improvement.” In this vision, an AI system doesn’t just answer questions or generate code—it helps design…
The AI boom is doing something that the tech industry hasn’t seen in a long time: it’s giving familiar, older enterprise IT brands a second act—one that doesn’t rely on nostalgia, but on relevance. For investors, the excitement is straightforward…
Alexandr Wang’s fingerprints are increasingly visible in Meta’s latest attempt to reassert itself as a serious force in frontier AI. The effort centers on Muse Spark, a model that has already generated enough internal and external buzz to be treated…
Meta’s AI push is back in the spotlight, and not because it’s subtle. The company is widely described as preparing a roughly $100 billion-scale commitment to artificial intelligence—an amount large enough to sound less like a strategy and more like…
Cyera is reportedly in the final stretch of a major fundraising effort that, if it closes on the terms being discussed, would put the company’s valuation in the neighborhood of $12 billion—despite the fact that it is still operating at…