Atlassian follows Block’s footsteps and cuts staff in the name of AI
Atlassian laid off 10% of its workforce, around 1,600 people, as the company looks to funnel more funds to AI.
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Lucid Motors shows off robotaxi concept called ‘Lunar’
The concept was a highlight of Lucid's investor day, in which the company detailed its ambitions to push deeper into autonomy while pumping out new, affordable EVs.
Humanoid maker Sunday reaches $1.15 billion valuation to build household robots
Coatue, Tiger Global, Benchmark and Bain are betting big on robotics company Sunday.
Webflow buys AI content generation platform Vidoso to bolster its marketing suite
Founded in 2024, Vidoso uses large language models to help organizations generate marketing collateral like images, presentations, video clips, blog posts, and social media content.
Bumble to launch an AI dating assistant, ‘Bee’
Bumble's new AI assistant Bee will move the dating app beyond the swipe by matching people based on compatibility and goals.
Law enforcement shuts down botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked routers
An international law enforcement operation shut down a service called SocksEscort, which allegedly helped cybercriminals all over the world launch ransomware and DDoS attacks, as well as distribute child sexual abuse material.
A writer is suing Grammarly for turning her and other authors into ‘AI editors’ without consent
Journalist Julia Angwin is leading a class action lawsuit against Grammarly for violating her privacy and publicity rights.
Tesla becomes a utility in the UK, setting up showdown with Octopus Energy
The new Tesla Energy Ventures division was approved by Ofgem to sell electricity directly to customers.
Gumloop lands $50M from Benchmark to turn every employee into an AI agent builder
As companies race to adopt AI, Benchmark general partner Everett Randle believes the key to success lies in empowering every worker with AI superpowers, and Gumloop’s intuitive agent builder is an example of the kind of tool that will unlock that potential.
Alexa+ gets a new ‘adults only’ personality option that curses but won’t get into NSFW content
The new Sassy style can curse and roast you, but the fun ends there.
The team behind continuous batching says your idle GPUs should be running inference, not sitting dark
Every GPU cluster has dead time. Training jobs finish, workloads shift and hardware sits dark while power and cooling costs keep running. For neocloud operators, those empty cycles are lost margin.The obvious workaround is spot GPU markets — renting spare capacity to whoever needs it. But spot instances mean the cloud vendor is still the one doing the renting, and engineers buying that capacity are still paying for raw compute with no inference stack attached. FriendliAI's answer is differe
Wonderful raises $150M Series B to scale its enterprise AI agents across 30 countries
The Amsterdam-headquartered startup has been out of stealth for just eight months, but it already has 350 staff, production deployments across four continents, and a valuation reportedly approaching $1.7 billion There is a problem that every major enterprise AI deployment eventually runs into: the gap between a convincing demo and a working system in production. […]This story continues at The Next Web
Zendesk acquires Forethought in its biggest deal in two decades
The 2018 Startup Battlefield winner is joining Zendesk as the race to own agentic customer service accelerates When Forethought won the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield competition in 2018, ChatGPT was four years from existing. The company’s pitch, that AI could handle customer service conversations autonomously, was considered ambitious to the point of eccentricity. On Wednesday, Zendesk […]This story continues at The Next Web
Uber, Wayve, and Nissan are bringing robotaxis to Tokyo
The three-way MOU marks Uber’s first autonomous vehicle partnership in Japan, and adds Tokyo to a global rollout already targeting ten cities. Tokyo’s streets are, by common consensus, among the most demanding driving environments on Earth. Dense junctions, narrow lanes, complex signage, and a culture of precision that tolerates neither delay nor error make the […]This story continues at The Next Web
Neuramancer raises €1.7M to bring forensic AI to deepfake detection
The Bavarian startup is targeting insurance fraud first, and sees Europe’s push for explainable AI as a competitive edge Neuramancer AI Solutions GmbH has closed a €1.7 million pre-seed funding round to accelerate the commercialisation of its deepfake detection platform, with an initial focus on the insurance industry. The Bavarian startup, which rebranded from Neuraforge, […]This story continues at The Next Web
Cleafy raises €12M to stop bank fraud before it starts
The Milan cybersecurity firm’s Series B bets that predictive defence, not reactive detection, is how banks survive the AI fraud wave For more than a decade, Cleafy has been telling banks that waiting for fraud to happen before responding to it is a losing strategy. The Milan-based cybersecurity firm has now raised €12 million in […]This story continues at The Next Web
NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Nebius
NVIDIA has agreed to invest $2 billion in Nebius Group, the Amsterdam-based AI cloud company that emerged from the wreckage of Yandex after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a deal that pairs a substantial capital injection with a deep technical partnership aimed at deploying more than 5 gigawatts of NVIDIA-powered compute capacity by the […]This story continues at The Next Web
Endform raises €1.5M as faster AI-generated code puts new pressure
The Swedish testing startup has secured seed funding to take on the CI pipeline bottleneck in the age of AI-generated code. The code review has always had a bottleneck, not the code itself, but the wait. As test suites swell alongside faster development cycles, engineering teams have increasingly found themselves staring at CI pipelines that […]This story continues at The Next Web
Chinese BCI startup Gestala raises $21.6M for non-invasive ultrasound brain tech
The startup, founded just two months before its raise, has secured China’s largest early-stage brain-computer interface round, heavily oversubscribed. Phoenix Peng has already built one brain-computer interface company. NeuroXess, his first venture, develops implantable BCI systems designed to restore communication and motor function for people with severe neurological conditions. His second company, Gestala, takes a […]This story continues at The Next Web
EU lawmakers deal to ban AI non-consensual intimate deepfakes
A March 11 political agreement on AI Act amendments will add an explicit prohibition on non-consensual intimate AI-generated images, direct fallout from the Grok scandal. It took a scandal, a wave of regulatory anger, and a coalition of 57 European Parliament members to get there, but the EU’s landmark AI Act will now contain an […]This story continues at The Next Web