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Micron crushes expectations on earnings and guidance amid soaring AI memory demand
Memory chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. crushed Wall Street’s expectations on earnings and revenue and offered jaw-dropping guidance for the current quarter, sending its stock higher in extended trading. The company reported first-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $4.78 per share, easily beating the Street’s forecast of $3.95, while revenue jumped 57% ...
Google’s Gemini 3 Flash makes a big splash with faster responsiveness and superior reasoning
Google LLC is building on the successful launch of its all-powerful Gemini 3 Pro large language model with the debut of a more lightweight and streamlined version called Gemini 3 Flash. It’s the successor to Gemini 2.5 Flash, designed for applications that require lower latency and costs, and it’s being rolled out across multiple platforms starting ...
Chatbot visibility startup geoSurge launches to help brands get noticed by ChatGPT
So-called generative engine optimization startup geoSurge Ltd. is launching today to help brands ensure they can remain visible to generative artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT. The company said it’s pioneering an entirely new discipline it has christened “corpus engineering,” which aims to help companies understand and actively improve how they are positioned inside the memories ...
Docker makes its entire catalog of security-hardened container images free for everyone
Software containerization company Docker Inc. said today it’s going to transform application security by enabling developers to standardize on security-hardened, enterprise-grade container images that meet the toughest software supply chain challenges. From today, the company is making its entire catalog of more than 1,000 Docker Hardened Images available entirely for free, under the open-source Apache ...
Zencoder’s Zenflow gets LLMs to verify each other’s work and accelerate AI code automation
Artificial intelligence coding startup Zencoder today unveiled a new orchestration tool that it says will help enterprises move away from unproductive “vibe coding” to a more disciplined and verifiable form of AI engineering. The new tool is called Zenflow and it’s designed to act as an orchestration layer that coordinates multiple third-party coding agents as they ...
Meta Platforms transforms audio editing with prompt-based sound separation
Meta Platforms Inc. is bringing prompt-based editing to the world of sound with a new model called SAM Audio that can segment individual sounds from complex audio recordings. The new model, available today through Meta’s Segment Anything Playground, has the potential to transform audio editing into a streamlined process that’s far more fluid than the ...
Vital Lyfe raises $24M in funding to make any kind of water source clean enough to drink
Vital Lyfe, a startup founded by former SpaceX Corp. engineers to make clean drinking water available anywhere on Earth, revealed today that it has raised $24 million in seed funding. The startup says it has developed an entirely novel kind of autonomous and portable “water-making technology” that relies on desalination and operates independently of traditional ...
Adobe Firefly’s newest update enables users to direct, rather than generate, AI video
Adobe Inc. is revamping the video creation capabilities within its Firefly suite of artificial intelligence models. In a major update to its AI video generation tool, it’s adding more powerful editing capabilities and precise motion controls, along with video upscaling in Firefly Boards. In addition, it’s announcing the full beta launch of Firefly video editor, ...
Vulnerability-free container image startup Echo Software raises $35M
Echo Software Ltd., a startup that’s using artificial intelligence agents to secure container images at the base layer, said today it has raised $35 million in an early-stage funding, just four months after closing on its $15 million seed raise. The Series A round was led by N47 and saw participation from Notable Capital, Hyperwise ...
Call center chatbot startup PolyAI raises $86M at a $750M valuation
London-based artificial intelligence startup PolyAI Ltd. said today it has raised $86 million in late-stage funding at a $750 million valuation for its agentic chatbot platform that automates customer interactions for casinos, banks, hospitals and other enterprises. Today’s Series D round was led by Georgian, Hedosophia and Khosla Ventures. Also participating were Nvidia Corp.’s venture ...