"There's a common refrain among [young] people in this world that it's easier to raise money for a startup right now than to get an internship. Which is remarkable, right?"
Redis built its name as the caching layer that kept web applications from collapsing under load. The problem it is targeting now has the same structure but is harder to solve: production AI agents failing not because the models are wrong, but because the data underneath them is scattered, stale and structured for humans rather than machines. Retrieval pipelines built for single queries cannot absorb the volume agents generate.The gap Redis is targeting is structural: agents make orders of magnit
The death is the latest worker safety issue at the Starbase facility, which has a higher injury rate than all other SpaceX sites.
Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that the bigger obstacle is access, and that Claude solves it.
Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs.
Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw and an engineer at OpenAI, racked up $1.3 million in API costs in a single month by running approximately 100 Codex instances simultaneously on his open-source project. The bill, which covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests over 30 days, is the most visible demonstration yet of what […]This story continues at The Next Web
SpaceX has raised the price of every consumer Starlink plan in the United States, adding $5 to $10 per month across its residential and mobile tiers while doubling the cost of its budget Standby Mode from $5 to $10. The increases, which took effect immediately for new subscribers and will apply to existing customers from […]This story continues at The Next Web
Meta will begin cutting approximately 8,000 jobs on 20 May, the largest single round of layoffs the company has undertaken since its 2023 restructuring, in a move that lays bare the scale of Mark Zuckerberg’s bet that artificial intelligence infrastructure is worth more than the people it replaces. The company is also cancelling 6,000 open […]This story continues at The Next Web
Amazon has launched a feature that uses artificial intelligence to generate entire podcast episodes on demand. Called Alexa Podcasts, the tool allows users to ask Alexa+ to create a podcast on any topic, and the system will research the subject, produce a structured overview, and deliver it as an audio episode narrated by two […]This story continues at The Next Web
New York City Health and Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States, has disclosed that hackers stole personal data, medical records, and biometric information, including fingerprints, in a breach affecting at least 1.8 million people. The organisation reported the figure to the US Department of Health and Human Services, making the […]This story continues at The Next Web
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. A nine-person jury in Oakland returned a unanimous verdict on Sunday finding that Musk’s claims had been filed too late under the statute of limitations, ending the most consequential corporate governance trial in the history of artificial intelligence without reaching the […]This story continues at The Next Web
HistoSonics has received regulatory approval from Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration for its Edison Histotripsy System, a non-invasive cancer treatment device that uses focused ultrasound to destroy tumours without cutting, radiation, or thermal damage. The TFDA authorisation, announced on 18 May, marks a significant step in the company’s expansion into Asia and adds Taiwan to […]This story continues at The Next Web
Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI co-founders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late.
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 round was led by Princeville Capital, with new strategic investors Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow […]This story continues at The Next Web
Four supply-chain incidents hit OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in 50 days: three adversary-driven attacks and one self-inflicted packaging failure. None targeted the model, and all four exposed the same gap: release pipelines, dependency hooks, CI runners, and packaging gates that no system card, AISI evaluation, or Gray Swan red-team exercise has ever scoped.On May 11, 2026, a self-propagating worm called Mini Shai-Hulud published 84 malicious package versions across 42 @tanstack/* npm packages in
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