AI
Google is transforming Chrome into an AI-native browser
Google LLC has long used its Chrome web browser as a way to boost the popularity of its products and services, notably to strengthen its dominance in search, and now it’s trying to do…
Infra
Microsoft to invest $4B to build second data center facility in Wisconsin
Microsoft Corp. today revealed plans to spend $4 billion building a second data center in Wisconsin, having already begun construction on an initial facility nearby that’s set to cost about $3.3 billion. At a…
Emerging Tech
Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses have an integrated display and gesture-based controls
Meta Platforms Inc. is racing ahead of its competitors in the virtual reality and augmented reality worlds with the launch of a new and more sophisticated pair of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses. It debuted…
Infra
Upscale AI gets $100M for a new kind of AI networking infrastructure built on open standards
Artificial intelligence is putting existing networks under immense strain, and they have emerged as one of the major constraints on the development of more powerful large language models and AI algorithms. To solve this…
Apps
Dev tool startup Blacksmith Software gets $10M to accelerate continuous integration
A startup called Blacksmith Software Inc. wants to eliminate the inefficiencies around building and testing new software releases after closing on $10 million in an early-stage funding funding. Today’s Series A round was led…
AI
Read AI’s new agents help employees stay on top of work by analyzing all their communications
Read AI Inc., an artificial intelligence startup that specializes in summarizing text, audio and video content to help workers understand it more quickly, is jumping on the agentic AI bandwagon with its latest update.…
Security
Cybersecurity startup Vega gets $65M in funding to replace SIEM with SAM
Israeli security operations startup Vega Ltd. said today its artificial intelligence-native threat detection platform is ready to rip out and replace legacy security information and event management or SIEM tools after raising $65 million…
AI
Airia raises $100M from its co-founder to build the security foundation for enterprise AI
Cybersecurity startup Airia LLC says it has the money it needs to build the most effective governance and orchestration layer for AI agents after raising $100 million in funding today. The money comes from…
AI
Google’s Agent Payments Protocol provides a framework for AI to automate consumer purchases
Google LLC is giving artificial intelligence agents even more autonomy with the launch of a new protocol that makes it possible for them to make payments on behalf of their users. The Agent Payments…
Infra
GPU cloud startup Boost Run to go public via de-SPAC merger
Artificial intelligence cloud infrastructure startup Boost Run LLC said today it’s planning to go public through a de-SPAC merger with the publicly traded special-purpose acquisition company Willow Lane Acquisition Corp., with its shares set…