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Runway is moving beyond building AI video models and into shaping what gets built on top of them. The AI video-generation startup has launched a $10 million venture fund to invest in early-stage companies building across AI, media, and world simulation, the company’s founders told TechCrunch.
If you follow the ongoing debate over AI’s growing economic impact, you may have seen the graphic below floating around this month.
SponsoredProvided byMistral AI In the early days of large language models (LLMs), we grew accustomed to massive 10x jumps in reasoning and coding capability with every new model iteration. Today, those jumps have flattened into incremental gains.
To build the autonomous machines of the future, sometimes your model needs a model. Companies developing self-driving cars, robots manipulating the physical environment, or autonomous construction equipment collect thousands, if not millions, of hours of video data for evaluation and training. Org
LiteLLM, makers of a popular AI gateway used by millions of developers, has publicly announced that it is ditching compliance startup Delve and will redo its security certifications with another company and auditor.
Would you trade your manager for a chatbot? A growing number of Americans are saying yes. According to a Quinnipiac University poll published Monday, 15% of Americans say they’d be willing to have a job where their direct supervisor was an AI program that assigned tasks and set schedules.
After operating in secrecy for years, a startup company called R3 Bio, in Richmond, California, suddenly shared details about its work last week—saying it had raised money to create nonsentient monkey “organ sacks” as an alternative to animal testing. In an interview with Wired, R3 listed three inve
Service paid Palantir $1.8 million last year to improve a custom tool designed to help the tax agency identify the “highest-value” cases for audits, collection of unpaid taxes, and potential criminal investigations, according to documents WIRED obtained via public record request.When the contract wa
Banking house JPMorgan Chase is asking its roughly 65,000 engineers and technologists to use AI tools as part of their regular workflow. Business Insider reported that managers are tracking how often staff use these tools.
Starcloud’s latest funding round values the space compute company at $1.1 billion, making it one of the fastest startups to reach unicorn status after graduating from Y Combinator. The company’s $170 million Series A, which closed 17 months after its demo day presentation, was led by Benchmark and E
A developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, Kong, has announced that Bruce Felt has joined it as CFO. Felt is a seasoned finance leader who brings experience guiding enterprise software companies through their growth phases, including several IPOs, acquisitions, and global expansions.Mr.
As artificial intelligence becomes a driving force in financial prediction, the reliability of its forecasting tools faces increasing scrutiny. Many traders question whether claims of high accuracy…
When Pew Research Centre analysed 68,879 Google searches in March 2025, one finding stood out: users who encountered an AI-generated summary clicked on a traditional result just 8% of the time. Those who didn’t see a summary clicked nearly twice as often, at 15%.
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones After operating in secrecy for years, R3 Bio, a California-based startup, suddenly revealed last
As AI coding tools generate billions of lines of code each month, a new bottleneck is emerging: ensuring that software works as intended.
French lab Mistral AI has raised $830 million in debt to build a new data center near Paris that will be powered by Nvidia chips, according to reports from Reuters and CNBC. Mistral first announced plans to build a data center last year, when its CEO Arthur Mensch said it would explore different fin
Fresh off a successful Series C funding round in November, the South Korean fabless AI chip startup Rebellions has raised an additional $400 million. The latest funding infusion, which comes before a planned IPO later this year, was led by Mirae Asset Financial Group and the Korea National Growth Fu
AI may be booming, but behind the scenes, companies are wasting vast amounts of expensive compute. GPUs sit idle, workloads are over-provisioned, and cloud costs continue to climb.
Glia, a customer service platform providing AI-powered interactions for the banking sector, has been named a winner in the Banking and Financial Services Category at the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards.
Large language models trained on vast datasets could speed genomics research, streamline clinical documentation, improve real-time diagnostics, support clinical decision-making, accelerate drug discovery, and even generate synthetic data to advance experiments. But their promise to transform biomedi
