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OpenAI releases policy document focused on financial impacts and risks of AI
25+ min ago (464+ words) UPDATED 18:20 EDT / APRIL 06 2026 OpenAI Group PBC today released a policy framework with suggestions on how to address the risks posed by artificial intelligence. The 13-page document is titled "Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age:Ideas to Keep People First." It's…...
Satellite data startup Xoople closes $130M investment
2+ hour, 28+ min ago (415+ words) UPDATED 16:17 EDT / APRIL 06 2026 Xoople SL, a Spanish provider of Earth observation data, today disclosed that it has closed a $130 million funding round. Madrid-based investment firm Nazca Capital led the raise. It was joined by MCH Private Equity, CDTI, Buenavista Equity…...
Generalist releases highly capable GEN-1 robotic intelligence AI foundation model
8+ hour ago (603+ words) UPDATED 10:45 EDT / APRIL 06 2026 Artificial intelligence startup Generalist AI Inc., a startup focused on embodied robotics intelligence, has'released GEN-1, a highly capable foundation model for robot learning and mastery of physical tasks. The new model, which debuted Friday, arrives merely five…...
Anthropic reportedly acquires medical AI startup Coefficient Bio for $400M+
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (452+ words) UPDATED 16:28 EDT / APRIL 03 2026 Anthropic PBC has reportedly acquired Coefficient Bio Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence software for medical researchers. Half the startup's stock was owned by a healthcare-focused venture capital firm called Dimension. The fund informed investors of the…...
Context memory explosion hits storage wall
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (333+ words) UPDATED 14:26 EDT / APRIL 03 2026 Artificial intelligence inference is entering a new era defined not by compute alone, but by an escalating demand for context memory that traditional storage architectures were never designed to handle. "It feels like storage kind of got…...
You can't FinOps your way out of AI cloud costs
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (635+ words) UPDATED 12:19 EDT / APRIL 03 2026 GUEST COLUMN by JG Chirapurath Scan any industry publication and the same story shows up: Cloud costs are out of control, and enterprises are scrambling. The technology everyone bet on to drive growth is making the problem…...
PitchBook: US venture funding surges to record $267B as OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI dominate AI deals
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (655+ words) UPDATED 00:01 EDT / APRIL 03 2026 U.S. venture capital activity surged to unprecedented levels in the first quarter of 2026, driven by a small number of outsized artificial intelligence deals that reshaped the overall market profile,according to a first look at thequarterlyPitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor…...
OpenAI acquires tech industry podcast company TBPN
4+ day, 6+ min ago (426+ words) UPDATED 18:38 EDT / APRIL 02 2026 OpenAI Group PBC today announced that it has acquired the company behind TBPN, a popular tech industry podcast. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to The Wall Street Journal, TBPN expects to generate more…...
Cloudflare debuts EmDash to challenge aging WordPress with AI-native CMS
4+ day ago (583+ words) UPDATED 18:45 EDT / APRIL 02 2026 Twenty-four years ago, two young coders launched a fork of the b2/cafelog log code called WordPress, a content management system for the then-emerging blogging world that over two decades later has grown into the most used CMS…...
Freshworks expands Freshservice with continuous discovery and dependency mapping for IT asset management
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (455+ words) UPDATED 08:00 EDT / APRIL 02 2026 Customer'service and support software firm'Freshworks Inc.'today announced an expansion of its Freshservice platform with the launch of redefined IT Asset Management, a service that provides visibility into how infrastructure supports the services that businesses depend on....