SiFive raises $400m Series G at $3.65bn valuation in final round before IPO

In short: SiFive, the RISC-V chip IP firm founded by the Berkeley engineers who created the open-source instruction set architecture, raised $400 million in an oversubscribed Series G on April 9, 202 [...]

French government says au revoir Windows, bienvenue Linux

America's Big Tech companies may soon learn that saddling up with Donald Trump doesn't tend to work out in the end. As the president sows chaos and distrust around the globe while taking aim [...]

AI is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking

AI is everywhere, the pressure to adopt it is relentless, and the evidence that it’s making us smarter is getting thinner by the quarter. On New Year’s Day 2026, a programmer named Steve Yegge lau [...]

Google's Gemma 4 puts free agentic AI on your phone and no data ever leaves the device

Google's new open-source model, Gemma 4, processes text, images, and audio completely on-device. Using agent skills, the AI can independently tap into tools like Wikipedia or interactive maps; no [...]

Your developers are already running AI locally: Why on-device inference is the CISO’s new blind spot

For the last 18 months, the CISO playbook for generative AI has been relatively simple: Control the browser.Security teams tightened cloud access security broker (CASB) policies, blocked or monitored [...]

After 30 years using Linux, I have only 4 complaints - and 2 send me back to my MacBook

For decades, I've recommended the open-source OS to new and experienced computer users alike. But hey, I'm not oblivious to its handful of faults. [...]

Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents gives enterprises a new one-stop shop but raises vendor 'lock-in' risk

Anthropic announced a new platform last week, Claude Managed Agents, aiming to cut out the more complex parts of AI agent deployment for enterprises and competes with existing orchestration frameworks [...]

Context architecture is replacing RAG as agentic AI pushes enterprise retrieval to its limits

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 fai [...]

The EU says its age verification app is ready

Announced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and digital chief Virkkunen, the open-source app uses zero-knowledge proof technology to let users confirm their age without exposing personal da [...]