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Voice artificial intelligence startup Bland today revealed that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its research, grow its engineering team and scale its platform into more regulated industries. Founded in 2023, Bland builds AI agents that handle phone calls, SMS and chat. Where much
Major enterprise platform companies are racing to build tools for a new class of users: artificial intelligence agents. One example of this was apparent today with the latest releases from Databricks Inc. The company unveiled a new architecture – Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing – that enabl
Today, Chinese AI startup Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) announced the immediate release of GLM-5.2, a 753-billion parameter open-weights large language model (LLM) engineered specifically to dominate "long-horizon" autonomous coding and engineering tasks. Available immediately on Hugging Face, the Z.ai A
Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sat with us to discuss the Snap Specs, privacy, parental controls and more. Spoiler: He says "computing" a lot.
The creator of Apple TV's horror comedy hit already has that on her to-do list for the future.
The funny-sounding name offers new insights into galaxy formation.
Hackers are exploiting Steam Workshop to hide malicious code inside community-made desktop themes for Wallpaper Engine, putting users at risk of account theft.
Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.
"As for Arianespace, they have definitely stepped up."
Czech startup Neuron Soundware has built an AI-powered acoustic detection system called Sound Shield that identifies drones by the sound of their engines using microphone sensors that cost between €100 and €150 each. The system is designed as a passive, low-cost alternative to radar for detecting lo
In the coming weeks, Apple will move anonymously generated emails addresses to a different domain.
Transferring genes across species doesn't just happen in microbes.
Besides updates to the Contacts app, Phone by Google has received a sizable Material 3 Expressive redesign on Wear OS.
A few weeks ago, a WhatsApp beta build revealed work on disappearing messages that vanish after they’re read. Now, WhatsApp is developing another ephemeral messaging feature. Here are the details.
I have just finished writing API Artisan: A Guide to Building APIs with Laravel, and I am giving it away for free. Before you commit to 300-odd pages, let me give you the short version: the tips, patterns, and small decisions that separate an API that technically works from one that developers are g
Three months ago, my entire task-management system was a chat window I'd lose when the tab closed. Today it's a Postgres backlog that three different coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Grok — pull work off autonomously, stamp with attribution, and close against git history. I never decided to build
When was the last time you deleted an email account on purpose? For most teams the answer is never, and that tells you something. We treat mailboxes the way we treated servers in 2008: hand-built, carefully named, kept alive indefinitely because recreating one is painful. They're pets. Meanwhile eve
A human assistant borrows the boss's calendar; a scheduling bot owns its own. That one difference dissolves most of what makes calendar automation miserable. The borrowed-calendar model is how nearly every scheduling tool works today: connect to a person's Google or Microsoft account via OAuth, requ
Day 1, 4:02 p.m.: a customer asks your agent a billing question and gets an answer. Day 6, 9:30 a.m.: they reply "actually, that didn't work." If your agent lives in a chat widget, that second message starts from zero — the session died with the tab, the context is gone, and the customer gets to rep
