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Cloudflare crushes analysts’ expectations on revenue and its stock soars in late trading
Shares of the cloud content delivery network CloudFlare Inc. jumped more than 14% in extended trading on the back of a solid top- and bottom-line beat and strong revenue guidance for the current quarter and full year. The connectivity cloud company reported fourth-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 28 cents per ...
VCs back Smart Bricks’ plan to automate real estate investing with AI agents
Artificial intelligence agents are coming to the real estate industry. A startup called Smart Bricks Real Estate LLC has just raised $5 million in pre-seed funding to develop autonomous reasoning agents that can help investors to identify, evaluate and acquire high-performing real estate assets without spending endless hours searching and struggling with due diligence. Today’s ...
Matia raises $21M to help enterprises consolidate their data management operations
Unified data operations startup Matia Inc. wants to give enterprises a better way to manage their data pipelines at scale after raising $21 million in an early-stage A round of funding. Red Dot Capital led the Series A round, which saw participation from existing backers such as Leaders Fund, Secret Chord Ventures, Cerca Partners, Caffeinated ...
Ambi Robotics advances physical AI by licensing its hard-earned robot skills
Ambi Robotics Inc. is leaning on years of production-hardened operational experience in warehouse robotics by giving third-party robots the chance to license the essential skills needed to perform tasks such as item inspection, picking and placement. The company’s new AI Skill Suite, introduced today, is a dramatic expansion of its operating system for physical artificial ...
Digital twin startup Neara raises $63M to help power companies cope with AI’s energy demands
Australian startup Neara, which makes digital twins of power grids, says it’s ready to support electricity companies as they struggle to cope with the surging demand from artificial intelligence data centers after raising more than $60 million in late-stage funding. The Sydney-based company raised around 90 million Australian dollars, or around $63 million, in a ...
Private cloud infrastructure startup Oxide Computer reportedly raises $200M in fresh funding
Cloud-inspired data center infrastructure startup Oxide Computer Co. has reportedly raised $200 million in a fresh round of funding. The round was first reported by Axios, which named the U.S. Innovative Technology Fund as the lead investor. It comes less than a year after the startup raised $100 million in a Series B funding round. Founded ...
Startup aiOla strives to fix AI speech recognition woes with dynamic routing
Artificial intelligence startup aiOla says it’s breaking new ground in its quest to develop machines that can understand human speech as well as people can. Today it has announced a new “Speech Intelligence Gateway” that’s able to facilitate more reliable speech recognition by dynamically routing each audio request to the model that’s best suited to ...
Amazon’s stock falls after it ups its 2026 capital spending forecast to $200B
Amazon.com Inc. delivered record quarterly revenue on the back of strong cloud growth during the fourth quarter, but its stock fell in late trading after it missed expectations on profit and raised its fiscal 2026 capital expenditure forecast to $200 billion. The online retail and cloud computing giant reported earnings before certain costs such as ...
IBM invests in generative AI app design startup Anima
IBM Corp. is pushing into the emerging “vibe coding” trend via an investment in the popular “design-to-code” startup Anima App Inc., as part of an effort to help reshape how companies design, build and ship digital products in the artificial intelligence era. Vibe coding has become a hugely disruptive force in software development, enabling developers ...
Anthropic’s hilarious Super Bowl spot skewers potential AI ads – but OpenAI chief Sam Altman protests
Anthropic PBC is spending millions of dollars on a series of amusing Super Bowl commercials that poke fun at its rival OpenAI Group PBC, which recently said it’s going to start running ads in ChatGPT. The ads follow today’s pledge by the company to ensure that its popular chatbot Claude will always remain ad-free. In ...