Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that in the future, AI will predict your needs before you know them.
Anthropic is having a very good year as the tech industry focuses specifically on AI models. The company aims to raise tens of billions of dollars in a funding round that would value it at about $950 billion (OpenAI was valued at $854 billion in a March round), and enterprise customers are increasingly preferring Claude […]
Geothermal startup Fervo Energy gains 33% in IPO debut, driven by demand for AI data centers
Fervo Energy, a geothermal energy startup, achieved a market valuation of over $10 billion in its public market debut, driven by demand for AI data centers and the energy that can power them. Furbo raised $1.89 billion in an enhanced initial public offering Wednesday, which originally valued the company at about $7.6 billion. Demand for […]
Air purifier deals: 70% off Blueair Mini Restful
Save $140: The Blueair Mini Restful Air Purifier and Sunrise Alarm Clock is on sale for $59.99 off the regular price of $199.99 at Woot. That’s a 70% discount. $59.99 in woot $199.99 Save $140 It’s a difficult time to think about buying yourself something nice as a little treat. The price of almost everything […]
Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics raises another $400 million
Mind Robotics, a Rivian spinoff company working to develop industrial robots that can further automate factory operations, has raised another $400 million just two months after raising $500 million. The funding round, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, was led by Kleiner Perkins. Volkswagen’s venture arm and Salesforce, which is partnering with Rivian in […]
Who would trust Sam Altman? |Tech Crunch
In May 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was sworn in and testified before Congress on regulating artificial intelligence. Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana heard his thoughts on licensing advanced models and asked if Altman might be qualified to run a hypothetical AI regulator. “I love what I do now,” Altman said with a laugh. “You […]
Anthropic taps a new type of customer: small business owners
Anthropic is considering courting smaller companies. To that end, the company on Wednesday announced the launch of Claude for Small Business, a new suite of services designed for customers who are closer to their local hardware store or coffee shop than a Walmart or Starbucks. To date, many of the most intensive AI deployments have […]
Anduril raises $5 billion, doubles valuation to $61 billion
As the year began, Anduril again experienced a large influx of capital. A funding round that was rumored to be underway in March has officially closed. Anduril has raised a $5 billion Series H round at a valuation of $61 billion, led by returning investors Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, the company announced Wednesday. That’s […]
r/WallStreetBets hates the SEC’s proposal to weaken quarterly reporting
Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission formally proposed relaxing quarterly reporting standards for publicly traded companies. So far, public comments submitted to financial regulators about the idea have been overwhelmingly negative. But the best objection was filed yesterday by the popular subreddit WallStreetBets. In an unsigned letter, a community of “approximately 18 million retail […]
US lawmakers demand answers from Instructor after Canvas data breach
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are calling on representatives of twice-hacked education software maker Instructure to testify about the company’s response to a cyberattack in which hackers stole the personal data of millions of students around the world. The House Homeland Security Committee, which has jurisdiction over government activities related to homeland security, […]
Microsoft’s MDASH AI system finds 16 flaws in Windows fixed in Patch Tuesday
Rabi LakshmananMay 13, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence Microsoft announced a new multi-model artificial intelligence (AI)-powered system called MDASH that facilitates the discovery and remediation of vulnerabilities at scale, adding that it is being tested by some customers as part of a limited private preview. MDASH (short for Multi-Model Agent Scanning Harness) is designed as a […]