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Nvidia's new open weights Nemotron 3 super combines three different architectures to beat gpt-oss and Qwen in throughput

Multi-agent systems, designed to handle long-horizon tasks like software engineering or cybersecurity triaging, can generate up to 15 times the token volume of standard chats — threatening their cost-effectiveness in handling enterprise tasks. But today, Nvidia sought to help solve this problem with the release of Nemotron 3 Super, a 120-billion-parameter hybrid model, with weights posted on Hugging Face.By merging disparate architectural philosophies—state-space models, transformers, and a nove

AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood put out the worst song I’ve ever heard

This song is an AI actor's rallying cry to other AI actors, urging them to keep going despite the naysayers who doubt their humanity. Literally no one can relate to this.

Nuro is testing its autonomous vehicle tech on Tokyo’s streets

Nuro began testing its self-driving software on public roads in Tokyo, marking the first international expansion for the AV startup.

Google Play is adding new paid and PC games, game trials, community posts, and more

The updates indicate that Google is focused on transforming Google Play into an enhanced gaming hub.

Ford’s new AI assistant will help fleet owners know if seatbelts are being used

Ford Pro AI debuted at Work Truck Week in Indianapolis and is now available to all of its U.S.-based Pro telematics subscribers.

Ride-hailing inDrive acquires Pakistan’s Krave Mart to bolster grocery delivery

inDrive has closed its acquisition of KraveMart, expanding grocery delivery in a market dominated by Foodpanda.

Zendesk acquires agentic customer service startup Forethought

Forethought was years ahead of its time and the 2018 winner of TechCrunch Battlefield.

India neobank Fi winds down banking services on its platform

Fi, founded by former Google Pay executives, is discontinuing banking services over four years after launch.

Netflix may have paid $600 million for Ben Affleck’s AI startup

This deal could rank as among the streaming giant's largest acquisitions ever.

Lovable says it added $100M in revenue last month alone, with just 146 employees

Swedish vibe-coding unicorn Lovable crossed $400 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in February.

Quince hits $10B valuation with giant $500M round led by Iconiq

E-commerce company Quince has raised another massive round, less than a year after its previous raise.

Pro-Iran hacktivist group says it is behind attack on medical tech giant Stryker

The hacktivist group claimed the attack was in retaliation for a U.S. strike on a Tehran school that killed more than 175 people, most of them children.

Anthropic gives Claude shared context across Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, enabling reusable workflows in multiple applications

Anthropic has upgraded its Claude AI model with new capabilities for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, marking a strategic move to expand its enterprise footprint and potentially challenging Microsoft’s newly launched Copilot Cowork — which Claude also partially powers. The updated add-ins are available to Mac and Windows users on paid Claude plans starting today, March 11. Anthropic is also expanding how enterprises can deploy the tools. Claude for Excel and Claude for PowerPoint can now be acces

Breakout Ventures raises $114M fund to back AI science startups

Breakout Ventures is finding growing success by backing early-stage startups in scientific fields such as biology and chemistry.

Almost 40 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are

VC mega-funds are back with General Catalyst, Spark rumored to be raising billions

General Catalyst is said to be raising $10 billion and Spark Capital $3 billion. This after several other firms have also raised mega-funds.

Poppi founder on TikTok, Super Bowl ads, and her return to Shark Tank

For years, venture capitalists have been skeptical of beverage startups, citing thin margins and brutal distribution as reasons most brands never break out. But a new wave of “functional soda” companies has been challenging that assumption, including Poppi, the prebiotic soda brand that grew from a kitchen experiment into a $1.95 billion acquisition by PepsiCo.  On this episode of […]

Hacker broke into FBI and compromised Epstein files, report says

According to a Reuters report, a foreign hacker broke into a server that was part of the FBI’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein — without realizing they had hacked an FBI server.

WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net

WordPress’s new browser-based service lets users create private sites without hosting or signing up, turning the platform into a personal workspace for writing, research, and AI tools.

Rivian spin-out Mind Robotics raises $500M for industrial AI-powered robots

The startup, which was created by Rivian founder RJ Scaringe, is looking to train on data from, and deploy in, Rivian's factory.