Amazon-backed X-energy files to raise up to $800M in IPO
Nuclear startup X-energy hit the road today to sell prospective investors on its initial public offering.
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Ford EV and tech chief leaving automaker
Doug Field had stints at Apple and Tesla before joining Ford in 2021.
Wait, could they still actually break up Live Nation?
A federal jury found that Live Nation has acted illegally as a monopoly -- but the company just came to a tentative settlement with the DOJ last month.
Monarch Tractor’s collapse ends with an acquisition by Caterpillar
The startup had faced mounting pressure from dealers, farmers, and a co-founder who complained that Monarch's tech didn't work properly.
Microsoft patched a Copilot Studio prompt injection. The data exfiltrated anyway.
Microsoft assigned CVE-2026-21520, a CVSS 7.5 indirect prompt injection vulnerability, to Copilot Studio. Capsule Security discovered the flaw, coordinated disclosure with Microsoft, and the patch was deployed on January 15. Public disclosure went live on Wednesday.That CVE matters less for what it fixes and more for what it signals. Capsule’s research calls Microsoft’s decision to assign a CVE to a prompt injection vulnerability in an agentic platform “highly unusual.” Microsoft previously assi
Frontier models are failing one in three production attempts — and getting harder to audit
AI agents are now embedded in real enterprise workflows, and they're still failing roughly one in three attempts on structured benchmarks. That gap between capability and reliability is the defining operational challenge for IT leaders in 2026, according to Stanford HAI's ninth annual AI Index report.This uneven, unpredictable performance is what the AI Index calls the "jagged frontier," a term coined by AI researcher Ethan Mollick to describe the boundary where AI excels and
Meta researchers introduce 'hyperagents' to unlock self-improving AI for non-coding tasks
Creating self-improving AI systems is an important step toward deploying agents in dynamic environments, especially in enterprise production environments, where tasks are not always predictable, nor consistent. Current self-improving AI systems face severe limitations because they rely on fixed, handcrafted improvement mechanisms that only work under strict conditions such as software engineering.To overcome this practical challenge, researchers at Meta and several universities introduced “hyper
OpenAI updates its Agents SDK to help enterprises build safer, more capable agents
OpenAI has expanded the capabilities of its agent-building toolkit, as agentic AI continues to grow in popularity.
Hightouch reaches $100M ARR fueled by marketing tools powered by AI
The startup says it grew its ARR by $70 million in just 20 months after launching an AI agent platform for marketers.
LinkedIn data shows AI isn’t to blame for hiring decline… yet
LinkedIn says hiring is down 20% since 2022, but blames higher interest rates — not AI — for the slowdown.
Feds will require data centers to show their power bills
In a first, the U.S. Energy Information Agency said it will require data centers to disclose details of their energy use.
We tested Anthropic’s redesigned Claude Code desktop app and 'Routines' — here's what enterprises should know
The transition from AI as a chatbot to AI as a workforce is no longer a theoretical projection; it has become the primary design philosophy for the modern developer's toolkit. On April 14, 2026, Anthropic signaled this shift with a dual release: a complete redesign of the Claude Code desktop app (for Mac and Windows) and the launch of "Routines" in research preview. These updates suggest that for the modern enterprise, the developer's role is shifting from a solo practitioner
AI learning app Gizmo levels up with 13M users and a $22M investment
Gizmo, an AI-powered learning platform, has attracted more than 13 million users and just secured $22 million in Series A funding.
Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.
Google rolls out a native Gemini app for Mac
You can share anything on their screen with Gemini to get help with what they're looking at in the moment, including local files.
Accel raises $5 billion for AI as venture capital bets reach infrastructure scale
In short: Accel has raised $5 billion in new capital, comprising a $4 billion Leaders Fund V and a $650 million sidecar, targeting 20-25 late-stage AI investments at an average cheque size of $200 million. The raise follows standout returns from its Anthropic stake (invested at $183B, now valued near $800B) and Cursor (backed at […]This story continues at The Next Web
AI's next bottleneck isn't the models — it's whether agents can think together
AI agents can connect together, but they cannot think together. That’s a huge difference and a bottleneck for next-gen systems, says Outshift by Cisco’s SVP and GM Vijoy Pandey.As he describes the current state of AI: Agents can be stitched together in a workflow or plug into a supervisor model — but there's no semantic alignment, no shared context. They’re essentially working from scratch each go-around. This calls for next-level infrastructure, or what Pandey describes as the "intern
Anthropic attracts $800 billion valuation offers as revenue hits $30 billion annualised run rate
In short: Anthropic has received investor offers valuing the company at approximately $800 billion, more than doubling its $380 billion valuation from a $30 billion funding round closed just two months ago. The surge follows an unprecedented revenue trajectory that has taken Anthropic from $1 billion in annualised revenue at the end of 2024 to […]This story continues at The Next Web
This Khosla-backed autonomous pod startup just raised $170M — now it’s aiming for more
Glydways is in talks to raise another $250 million as it prepares to launch three pilot programs.
Athena launches FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing execution systems
In short: Athena Technology Solutions, a Fremont-based MES integrator with roughly 120 employees, has launched FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing that automates reporting, support tickets, system modelling, and code generation for semiconductor and electronics factories. Built in partnership with Bangalore-based LLM at Scale.AI, it layers LLM capabilities on top of the Siemens Opcenter […]This story continues at The Next Web