Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history
Arm is producing its own CPU for the first time. It developed the CPU with Meta, which is also the chip's first customer.
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OpenAI’s plans to make ChatGPT more like Amazon aren’t going so well
OpenAI says it's moving away from Instant Checkout, which allowed users to buy items directly through the ChatGPT interface.
Google TV’s new Gemini features keep fans updated on sports teams and more
Three Gemini-powered features are coming to your Google TV. This includes visual responses, deep dives, and sports briefs.
Cloudflare’s new Dynamic Workers ditch containers to run AI agent code 100x faster
Web infrastructure giant Cloudlflare is seeking to transform the way enterprises deploy AI agents with the open beta release of Dynamic Workers, a new lightweight, isolate-based sandboxing system that it says starts in milliseconds, uses only a few megabytes of memory, and can run on the same machine — even the same thread — as the request that created it. Compared with traditional Linux containers, the company says that makes Dynamic Workers roughly 100x faster to start and between 10x and 100x
OpenAI adds open source tools to help developers build for teen safety
Rather than working from scratch to figure out how to make AI safer for teens, developers can use these policies to fortify what they build.
Talat’s AI meeting notes stay on your machine, not in the cloud
The subscription-free AI meeting notes app is a local-first twist on notetaking tools like Granola.
Energy Vault acquires 175 MW battery project in Texas as it bets on AI-driven power demand
In the sprawl north of Dallas, where data centres are multiplying and the Texas grid groans under record demand, Energy Vault has placed a new bet on battery storage, and on the idea that the companies powering AI’s insatiable appetite for electricity will need far more of it, far faster. The California-based energy storage company […]This story continues at The Next Web
BKR Capital raises $14.5M (so far) to invest in Black founders
BKR Capital announced Monday that its Fund II closed $20 million Canadian toward its $50 million target.
BNESIM on the evolving role of AI in travel eSIM as connectivity adapts to accelerating innovation cycles
BNESIM, a global connectivity provider specializing in travel eSIM and digital communications, acknowledges the far-reaching influence artificial intelligence is having across industries. Operating in a space defined by constant movement, both in terms of people and technology, the company approaches this shift intentionally to evolve in parallel with it. “We believe that meaningful progress comes […]This story continues at The Next Web
Crunchyroll confirms data breach after hacker claims unauthorized access
Crunchyroll said it continues to investigate the data breach involving its users' personal information.
Doss raises $55M for AI inventory management that plugs into ERP
Doss's AI-powered inventory management system integrates with existing ERP systems. The Series B round was co-led by Madrona and Premji Invest.
Apple Music partners with Ticketmaster to power its concert discovery feature
Apple Music teamed up with Ticketmaster to power its Concert Discovery feature, which recommends live music events based on users' listening habits.
Meet the former Apple designer building a new AI interface at Hark
The company said it would design models, hardware, and interfaces in tandem to deliver a "seamless end-to-end personal intelligence product."
Tony Siu on building AI-enabled developer communities through servitude leadership and human connection
Tony Siu, founder of Coffee & Code Philadelphia and an AI engineer and community builder, aims to advance a model of ecosystem development that blends human connection with the thoughtful use of AI. His approach reflects a community-first, servitude-leadership philosophy where participation, shared learning, and developer advocacy evolve alongside scalable systems, offering insight into how […]This story continues at The Next Web
Ai2 releases MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent with 30K human task trajectories and a full training stack
Engineers building browser agents today face a choice between closed APIs they cannot inspect and open-weight frameworks with no trained model underneath them. Ai2 is now offering a third option.The Seattle-based nonprofit behind the open-source OLMo language models and Molmo vision-language family today is releasing MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent available in 4 billion and 8 billion parameter sizes.Until now, no open-weight visual web agent shipped with the training data and pipeline
Pagaya just proved Wall Street will buy AI-underwritten auto loans twice
Three years ago, institutional investors took a leap of faith when they purchased bonds backed by auto loans that an algorithm had selected. Now Pagaya Technologies is asking them to do it again, with the very same loans. The Israeli-founded, New York-headquartered fintech announced on Monday that it has closed a $450 million auto resecuritization […]This story continues at The Next Web
Zalos raises $3.6M to automate finance workflows
The YC Fall 2025 startup, founded by a former Agicap GM and a former Apple Pay engineer, converts screen recordings of finance workflows directly into computer agents, no API integration required. 14 Peaks led the round, with Cohen Circle and 20VC participating. The CFO’s software stack is both the problem and the constraint. Enterprise finance […]This story continues at The Next Web
NeuReality taps former Google AI director to steer its inference operating system into the market
When Jensen Huang told 30,000 attendees at GTC last week that the future data centre is a “token factory,” he was describing a world that a small Israeli startup has been quietly building toward for months. NeuReality, the Caesarea-based company behind the NR-NEXUS inference operating system, has appointed Shalini Agarwal, a product management director at […]This story continues at The Next Web
Cauldron Raises $13.25M A2 to Turn Microbes Into a Nonstop Assembly Line
SOSV portfolio company Cauldron talked to TechCrunch about their $13.25 million Series A2round, led by Main Sequence Ventures with participation from Horizons Ventures, NGS Super, and SOSV.60% of inputs to the global economy could be produced biologically. Cauldron is making that future tangible.Their “hyper fermentation” technology keeps microbes in a continuously optimized, high-productivity state, unlocking dramatically better performance from existing systems. Even better, it works inside to
Zevero raises $7M as sustainability reporting shifts from annual obligation to continuous data infrastructure
The London-based carbon management platform, which has doubled its customer base and grown ARR 400% year-on-year, now has $14M in total funding and is pushing into Asia-Pacific and continental Europe, backed by Spiral Capital, Gazelle Capital, and Deep 30. For most companies, carbon reporting has been an annual exercise: gather data, produce a number, file […]This story continues at The Next Web