Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining the way AI models respond to prompted requests, per Axios.
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A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is responsible for securing software.
Cognition makes Devin, the first and arguably most successful AI coding agent. But famed coder Wu says it isn't designed to supplant human programmers.
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South Korean chip startup XCENA is betting that AI's real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.
The explosion is likely a major setback for Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company, and its attempt to compete with SpaceX.
The enterprise AI search startup tripled its annual revenue even as tech giants entered the category.
A new law and AV tracker tool gives the clearest accounting yet of how many robotaxis and self-driving trucks are in Texas.
Startup Battlefield applications are due tomorrow, so now's the time to put the finishing touches on your submission!
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.
The Bezos-backed EV startup has yet to announce final pricing for its vehicle, which is supposed to start shipping by the end of this year.
Asana will incorporate StackAI into its growing suite of AI workflow tools.
In its latest update, Bluesky is getting into long-form content.
A new hacking campaign is trying to trick Signal users to give up their secret recovery key, which can be used to access online backups containing past messages.
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.
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.
CEO Ariel Katz argues that while AI can replicate workflow SaaS, it can't copy H1’s unique doctor data.
Pay Tel secured the publicly exposed data after security researchers discovered the leak containing callers' sensitive ID documents and inmate communications.