Risotto raises $10M seed to use AI to make ticketing systems easier to use
Designed to autonomously resolve help desk tickets, Risotto has raised $10 million in seed funding in a round led by Bonfire Ventures.
Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI?
The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and AI company Anthropic over its technology has raised a deep open question: does the law actually allow the US government to conduct mass surveillance on Americans? Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. More than a decade after Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s collection of bulk…
Stratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year
Today, an estimated 2.2 billion people still have either limited or no access to the internet, largely because they live in remote places. But that number could drop this year, thanks to tests of stratospheric airships, uncrewed aircraft, and other high-altitude platforms for internet delivery. Even with nearly 10,000 active Starlink satellites in orbit and…
This NFL Player Worked at Smoothie King in the Off-Season. Here’s Why — And What It Taught Him.
Tennessee Titans safety Xavier Woods made smoothies, cleaned bathrooms and took orders for two weeks.
Samsung’s TriFold phone will cost $2,899 in the US
The phone’s display unfolds twice to reveal a 10-inch display, which is the largest screen ever on a Galaxy phone.
Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’
“We’re on the cusp of a completely new way of shopping,” Gates told TechCrunch.
Airtable gets into the AI agent game with Superagent
SuperAgent is Airtable’s first standalone product in its 13-year history, and signals both the company’s ambitions and the reality of the current AI moment: every serious software player is racing to prove they can deliver on agents.
Pinterest to lay off 15% of staff to redirect resources to AI
Pinterest says it’s “reallocating resources to AI-focused roles and teams that drive AI adoption and execution” and “prioritizing AI‑powered products and capabilities.”
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Luminar receives a larger $33 million bid for its lidar business
A new leading bidder has appeared in the Luminar bankruptcy case: Redmond, Washington-based MicroVision, which beat out Quantum Computing Inc.’s bid by $5 million.
China’s Moonshot releases a new open-source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent
The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens.