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Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a new addition to its increasingly stacked lineup of speakers. Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga will join the rest of the lineup to discuss op
Enterprise AI deployments are accelerating, but the velocity of change in models, tools and platforms is quietly creating a new and costly trap: costly failure to build for AI architectural replaceability. As Google Cloud Next 2026 confirms that agentic AI has become the organizing logic for the ent
At Cloud Next this week in Las Vegas, Google made its case this week that it has all the pieces — literally the entire “stack” of technologies from chips to models to data management platforms — needed to provide essentially the operating system for AI agents, the autonomous software that is the onl
Eighty-five percent of enterprises are running AI agent pilots, but only 5% have moved those agents into production. In an exclusive interview at RSA Conference 2026, Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel said that the gap comes down to one thing: trust — and that closing it separate
Mikaela Kiner's "The Reverb Way" draws on 15 years at Microsoft, Amazon, and Starbucks and a decade running her own firm to offer practical advice for founders and business owners, while being honest about the personal struggles, health challenges, and hard lessons along the way. Read More
S-1 filings have been plentiful the past few weeks for venture-backed startups providing semiconductors, nuclear and geothermal power, biotech, and space and defense tech queuing up for a possible trip to the public markets.
A U.S. special forces soldier who was part of the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been arrested and charged for allegedly betting on the operation in the prediction market and winning more than $400,000. Federal investigators said Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke opened a
Intel Corp. crushed analysts’ expectations as it delivered its first-quarter earnings results today, in a sign that its efforts to turn around its business under Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan could be finally starting to pay off. The chipmaker reported solid earnings before certain costs such as stock
Shares of the European enterprise software maker SAP SE registered solid gains in late trading today after the company delivered earnings results that beat expectations. The company’s American depository receipts gained more than 6% in the after-hours trading session, reversing a decline of just ove
Cloudsmith Inc., a startup that helps software teams manage application components, has secured $72 million in new funding. The Series C round was led by TCV, which was also the biggest backer of the company’s previous raise last year. Cloudsmith stated in its funding announcement today that the ven
Artificial intelligence coding assistant startup Cognition AI Inc. is engaged in discussions with investors over another massive funding round that would more than double its valuation to $25 billion, Bloomberg reported today. The report cites “people familiar with the matter” as saying that Cogniti
A U.S. special forces soldier who was part of the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been arrested and charged for allegedly betting on the operation in the prediction market and winning more than $400,000. Federal investigators said Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke opened a
OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that is significantly better than its predecessors at solving math problems and writing code. GPT-5.5 is rolling out a week after rival Anthropic PBC released its latest LLM. OpenAI is offering the model in two flavors: a standard version an
Artificial intelligence and data security company Cyera Ltd. announced today that it has acquired Ryft Data Inc., an Israeli startup that has built an automated data lake platform designed for enterprises deploying AI agents. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, although Globes reports that mar
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced the launch of Project QuiltWorks, an industry coalition aimed at helping enterprises find and fix the wave of software vulnerabilities being surfaced by frontier artificial intelligence models. The coalition brings together Accenture PLC, Ernst & Young Globa
The agentic AI era is forcing a fundamental redesign of enterprise infrastructure — not just in the cloud, but all the way to the on-premises data center. Regulated industries, governments and enterprises with strict data sovereignty requirements are now demanding AI-ready infrastructure that can ru
Telecom operators worldwide are wrestling with a defining question: remain connectivity providers or evolve into full-stack technology companies in a process dubbed techco transformation. That transformation is playing out ambitiously in Indonesia, a nation of 17,000 islands where digital access has
Enterprises are investing heavily in AI customer experience, but many experiments are stalling out before ever going live. The culprit is a confidence gap, according to Chris Mina (pictured), chief product and technology officer at LivePerson Inc. Organizations build compelling proof-of-concept work
Meta Platforms Inc. told staff today that it is planning to lay off about 8,000 employees, or roughly 10% of its workforce and cancel 6,000 open roles in an efficiency drive aimed at offsetting a massive surge in artificial intelligence spending. The cuts take effect on May 20 and according to Bloom
Omni Analytics Inc. today announced that it has closed a $120 million funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation, more than double what it was valued at last year. ICONIQ led the Series C investment. It was joined by Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capital arm, Redpoint Ventures and others. Building a bus
