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Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has raised the largest-ever seed round for a dev tool startup, according to its lead backer, Felicis.
Alphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond, stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments in AI this year. The so-called century bond will form part of a debut sterling issuance this week by Google’s parent company, said people familiar with
India has ordered social media platforms to step up policing of deepfakes and other AI-generated impersonations, while sharply shortening the time they have to comply with takedown orders.
Hauler Hero has picked up fresh funds as demand for its AI-powered waste management software continues to pile up. The New York-based startup raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Frontier Growth with participation from K5 Global and Somersault Ventures, among others, TechCrunch has learned.
Modern enterprises generate enormous amounts of security data, but legacy tools like Splunk still require companies to store all of it in one place before they can detect threats — a slow and costly process that’s increasingly breaking down in cloud environments where volumes are exploding and data
use the name “io” for its forthcoming line of AI hardware devices, according to a Monday court filing.The motion is part of a trademark infringement lawsuit filed last year by audio device startup iyO, which sued OpenAI after the ChatGPT maker acquired famed Apple designer Jony Ive’s startup io.
The most seductive narrative in American work culture right now isn’t that AI will take your job. It’s that AI will save you from it. That’s the version the industry has spent the last three years selling to millions of nervous people who are eager to buy it.
Agentic AI in healthcare is graduating from answering prompts to autonomously executing complex marketing tasks – and life sciences companies are betting their commercial strategies on it.According to a recent report cited by Capgemini Invent, AI agents could generate up to $450 billion in economic
Enterprise resource planning software company Workday announced Monday that chief executive Carl Eschenbach was stepping down and leaving the company’s board, effective immediately.
OpenAI on Monday announced it’s beginning to test ads in the U.S. for users on its Free and Go subscription tiers. The newer Go plan is a low-cost subscription at $8 per month in the U.S. and was introduced globally in mid-January. Subscribers to OpenAI’s paid plans, including its Plus, Pro, Busines
As Anthropic expands into India, a local software company has filed a court complaint saying it was already using the name “Anthropic,” spotlighting how the rapid global push of AI firms can collide with local incumbents. The filing comes amid Anthropic deepening its focus on India, announcing an In
For a couple of weeks now, AI agents (and some humans impersonating AI agents) have been hanging out and doing weird stuff on Moltbook’s Reddit-style social network.
On Monday, Databricks announced it reached a $5.4 billion revenue run rate, growing 65% year-over-year, of which more than $1.4 billion was from its AI products. Co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi wanted to share these growth numbers because there’s so much talk about how AI is going to kill the SaaS bu
MLCommons and LMSYS Org have jointly launched the CKAN Croissant benchmark, representing a major leap forward in AI model evaluation. It fully leverages the Croissant v1.0 format to enable seamless standardization and sharing of model metadata.
MLCommons has launched the Ailuminate French Datasets, a key expansion of its multilingual LLM benchmark framework. Led by LMSYS Org, the project aims to provide standardized evaluation tools for non-English languages like French, promoting global inclusivity in AI technology.
MLCommons recently released the benchmark results for MLPerf Client v0.6, the first standardized benchmark suite focused on client-side inference performance, targeting smartphones, laptops, and edge devices. Multiple vendors submitted results covering a range of AI models and scenarios.
NASSCOM has officially joined MLCommons as its 50th member, bringing India's perspective to global AI benchmarking and accelerating the adoption of standards like MLPerf in the region.
LMSYS Org released the latest Chatbot Arena benchmark results at AAAI 2025, refreshing the global AI chatbot leaderboard and providing valuable insights for model optimization.
The MLCommons organization officially released the MLPerf Training v5.0 benchmark results, marking a new milestone in AI model training performance evaluation. This benchmark focuses on the performance, efficiency, and scalability of large-scale AI training tasks, helping researchers and enterprises assess the true capabilities of hardware platforms.
The MLCommons organized the ATX (Agent Testing eXploration) Benchmark Expert Panel in June 2025, with LMSYS Org as a key participant, bringing together industry leaders to discuss frontier issues in AI agent evaluation. This panel aims to standardize agent benchmarks and address the shift from generative models to intelligent agents in the post-ChatGPT era.
