This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When Google opens its doors tomorrow for its annual developer conference, I/O, it will do so as a clear third place in the foundation model race. A year ago, at Google I/O…
Sigma Computing has raised $80 million in Series E funding at a $3 billion valuation, doubling its worth in a year and positioning the San Francisco-based company as one of the most aggressively valued players in the business intelligence market. The…
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt found himself booed and jeered as he gave the commencement address at the University of Arizona, telling the students AI will “shape the world.”
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Pope Leo XIV will personally present his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on 25 May at the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and one of the speakers alongside him will be Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic. The Vatican announced the details on Monday,…
The defense-tech company Anduril has shared new details about the augmented-reality headset for the military it’s prototyping with Meta, including a vision for ordering drone strikes via eye-tracking and voice commands. Quay Barnett, who leads the efforts as a vice president at Anduril following a career in the Army’s Special Operations Command, says his fundamental…
Across the B2B SaaS teams I work with, a pattern is starting to repeat. Pipeline feels less predictable. Sales cycles stretch. Conversion conversations require more explanation than before. At the same time, traffic often looks stable – sometimes even …
Radical Ventures led the round, with Nvidia, Sequoia, Benchmark, Adobe, and Toyota alongside. Andrej Karpathy, Michael Eisner, and the Nintendo family are angels. Total raised is now over $450m. Decart, the AI research lab building real-time video and …
The United States and the Philippines are moving “very, very quickly” on a planned 4,000-acre artificial intelligence and supply chain hub in New Clark City, north of Manila, according to Jacob Helberg, the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affai…
Agentic AI company Dust today announced a $40 million Series B led by Abstract and Sequoia, with participation from Snowflake and Datadog. With this round, Dust has raised over $60 million in total fu…
Google I/O 2026 begins on Monday at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, and the company has already shown much of its hand. The two-day developer conference, which runs 19–20 May with a keynote at 10 a.m. PT, is expected to formali…