Google plans to invest $40 billion towards building data centers in Texas

Google is getting ready to spend $40 billion to increase its data center footprint in Texas. In an announcement posted on its website, Google said it's planning to build more infrastructure for i [...]

SXSW puts AI onstage and business models under pressure

The AI mood at SXSW has shifted from novelty to economics, with sessions narrowing in on search, the creator economy, data centers, and the grid itself [...]

Y Combinator-backed Random Labs launches Slate V1, claiming the first 'swarm-native' coding agent

The software engineering world is currently wrestling with a fundamental paradox of the AI era: as models become more capable, the "systems problem" of managing them has become the primary b [...]

The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China

Depending on foreign-made open models is both a supply chain risk and an innovation problem, experts say. [...]

Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget

The London startup, founded by the team behind Darwin, acquired by Mercer in 2016, has built an AI platform that ingests fragmented global benefits data from PDFs, insurance contracts, and vendor port [...]

Zoom says it aced AI’s hardest exam. Critics say it copied off its neighbors.

Zoom Video Communications, the company best known for keeping remote workers connected during the pandemic, announced last week that it had achieved the highest score ever recorded on one of artificia [...]

Ascentra Labs raises $2 million to help consultants use AI instead of all-night Excel marathons

While artificial intelligence has stormed into law firms and accounting practices with billion-dollar startups like Harvey leading the charge, the global consulting industry—a $250 billion behemothâ [...]

This confirmed Samsung S26 Ultra privacy feature is the tech innovation I've waited years for

An upcoming privacy display feature on the Galaxy S26 Ultra lets the phone block out parts of the screen to counter snooping behavior. [...]

Our favorite 2025 advent calendars you can still get now: Top picks from Lego, Pokémon, Funko Pop and more

Why settle for tiny pieces of chocolate when you could unwrap a Pokémon card, a Funko Pop or a Star Wars LEGO ship instead? Advent calendars have gone full geek mode, with options for fans of movies, [...]