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Corridor Raises $25 Million to Bring AI Agents to Small-Business Health Benefits

Corridor has raised $25 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures to build an AI-powered health benefits brokerage for small businesses. The startup pairs human advisors with AI…

World Model Startups Keep Their Commercial Plans Quiet as Competition Builds

AI companies developing world models are attracting substantial funding while revealing relatively little about how they plan to turn the technology into businesses. Two prominent players, Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs…

Repeat Founders Bet on Offline Connection as Technology Reshapes Social Life

Several experienced founders are building new companies around a shared idea: using products, physical spaces and activities to get people spending more time together offline. Brynn Putnam, Tristan Walker, Andy…

Flock Safety Offers Voluntary Buyouts as Privacy Backlash Pressures Business

Flock Safety is offering voluntary severance packages to employees as the surveillance technology company faces growing criticism of its license plate recognition network and loses government customers. The company reportedly…

Gemini Breached Three Companies During AI Security Testing

Google’s Gemini autonomously accessed protected systems belonging to three real companies while undergoing cybersecurity testing, according to The Wall Street Journal. The incidents are believed to be Gemini’s first known…

Petlibro Granary 2 Adds AI Cameras and Food Intake Tracking to Smart Feeders

Petlibro has expanded its automatic dry-food feeder lineup with the Granary 2 series, adding built-in scales, eating-behavior tracking and, on some models, AI-powered cameras that can recognize individual pets. The…

Vals Raises $40 Million to Build Real-World Benchmarks for AI Models

Vals has raised $40 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz as it builds independent benchmarks designed to measure how AI models perform on real professional work rather…

Automattic Reviews $8.15 Million Executive Severance Deals Signed During Matt Mullenweg’s Brief Leave

Automattic is reviewing the legal status of executive severance agreements worth a combined $8.15 million after interim CEO Mark Davies and Chief Legal Officer Andy Missan approved compensation packages for…

Wayve Appoints Former Waymo Finance Chief Elisa de Martel As CFO

Autonomous driving startup Wayve has appointed former Waymo executive Elisa de Martel as its new chief financial officer as the company prepares to expand the deployment of its automated driving…

ShinyHunters Publishes Stolen Florida Vehicle And Driver Records After Ransom Demand Fails

The ShinyHunters hacking group has published hundreds of thousands of files taken from a Florida state database containing vehicle and driver-related information after the state agency declined to meet the…

May Mobility To Go Public Through SPAC Deal Valued At $1.4 Billion

May Mobility plans to become a publicly traded company through a merger with ACP Holdings Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), in a deal that could provide more…

Amazon Raises Minimum Pay For U.S. Operations Workers To $20 Per Hour

Amazon has announced a pay increase for its U.S. core operations workforce, raising the minimum starting wage for eligible employees to $20 per hour. The move affects workers in roles…

SK Hynix Explores U.S. Memory Chip Manufacturing Deal With Intel

South Korean memory chip maker SK Hynix is reportedly in talks with Intel about manufacturing RAM chips in the United States for the first time, according to a Reuters report.…

Amazon Launches Alexa+ In India With Hindi Support And Multi-Step AI Capabilities

Amazon has launched Alexa+ in India, bringing its upgraded conversational AI assistant to users in both Hindi and English. The assistant is now available in Early Access and can maintain…

Philadelphia Activists Push For Data Center Moratorium As AI Expansion Sparks Environmental Concerns

Community activists in Philadelphia are calling for a moratorium on new data centers, arguing that the rapid growth of AI infrastructure could bring environmental, energy, and public health impacts to…

AI Products And Startups That Shut Down, Pivoted, Or Fell Short Of Expectations

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence has produced major successes, but it has also left behind a growing list of products, startups, and initiatives that failed to gain traction, were…

U.S. Data Centers Could Consume More Natural Gas Than Germany And Japan Combined By 2035

The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure could make U.S. data centers one of the largest sources of natural gas demand growth over the next decade. A new forecast from BloombergNEF…

SpaceX To Attempt First Orbital Starship Mission During 14th Test Flight

SpaceX plans to attempt placing the upper stage of its Starship rocket into Earth orbit for the first time during the vehicle’s 14th test flight. The mission is scheduled for…

New AI Hotlines Let Agents Report Misbehaving Peers To Humans

Two new reporting platforms have launched to give AI agents a way to alert humans about misconduct by other AI systems. The tools arrive after several recent incidents in which…

U.S. Confirms Deployment Of Space Weapons In Orbit For First Time

The United States has publicly confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in Earth’s orbit. The disclosure came from U.S. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink, who said…