Spain’s Sherpa.ai raises $18M for AI that never touches your data

Everyone wants the power of AI. Few want to hand their most sensitive data to a foreign cloud to get it. A Basque startup thinks it has the fix. Sherpa.ai has raised $18m to build AI that never sees y [...]

OpenAI and Anthropic are giving away millions in computing power to attract startups

OpenAI, Anthropic, and major cloud providers are racing to outbid each other with free compute credits to pull startups into their ecosystems. Some individual offers top $3 million. At Y Combinator al [...]

Syntiant files for a US IPO, betting public markets want edge AI too

Syntiant, the chipmaker whose low-power processors run artificial intelligence directly on devices rather than in the cloud, has filed for a US initial public offering. The Irvine, California, compan [...]

Digital-native startups are ditching rigid databases for their agentic stacks     

Presented by MongoDBThe gap between what AI models and agents can produce and what legacy infrastructure can reliably support is known as architectural drag, and it is the defining bottleneck of the a [...]

Box survey: Why enterprise AI leaders are outperforming their peers

Presented by Box Content access, governance, and platform flexibility are emerging as the dividing lines between AI leaders and laggards, according to the new State of AI in the enterprise report from [...]

Sick of trying to find a USB and Windows key? Microsoft has just made reinstalling Windows 11 less painful

Windows 11 reinstallations will be available via the cloud, which includes appropriate drivers and doesn't require a USB drive. [...]

Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony fight Belgium’s creator-pay law at the EU court

Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony have taken Belgium to Europe’s top court. They say its copyright law forces platforms to pay creators far beyond what the EU intended. Four of the biggest names in tec [...]

The real cost, security, and culture problems behind enterprise AI agents

Presented by Red Hat At VentureBeat's recent AI Impact event, where the discussion centered on what separates enterprises that scale agentic AI from those that stall in pilot mode, Brian Gracely, [...]

Slack’s Slackbot can now pull your CRM data, generate charts, and send DocuSigns — all from a chat message.

Five years and $27.7 billion after Salesforce acquired Slack, the two products are finally starting to function as a single system. On Tuesday, Slack launched an integration that connects Slackbot — [...]