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Fusion energy has been “20 years away” for decades, but has the science finally caught up? Private investment in fusion companies surged from $10 billion to $15 billion in just months, and the money is coming from places you wouldn’t expect. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Be
The fight for the agent control plane is underway — and it might determine who controls enterprise artificial intelligence for the next decade. Google LLC came into Google Cloud Next 2026 with a clearer positioning for Gemini: less as a standalone model and more as a connective layer. The emphasis i
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it’s taking steps toward simplifying the creation of the underlying infrastructure for new autonomous artificial intelligence agents. With an update to its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform today, developers can access a new “managed agent harness” feature and com
SpaceX Corp. will help Cursor, a venture-backed vibe coding startup, train artificial intelligence models optimized for programming tasks. The companies announced the initiative on Tuesday. According to SpaceX, the partnership agreement gives it the option to buy Cursor for $60 billion by year’s end
Google LLC has emerged as the only cloud “hyperscaler” with a leading frontier artificial intelligence large language model – Gemini – and today it issued a raft of announcements designed to capitalize on that current advantage. The search giant’s cloud unit launched the Gemini Enterprise Agent Plat
Enterprises are locked in a long-term standoff with legacy infrastructure, with growing demand for virtualization modernization that doesn’t require a full rebuild. SUSE S.A. has positioned itself to help customers bridge that gap, but the challenge is less technical than psychological, according to
As regulatory pressure intensifies and geopolitical uncertainty reshapes technology procurement, enterprises are rethinking control over their entire stack, with sovereign architectures emerging as the defining framework for that effort. The convergence of VMware migration, Kubernetes ingress modern
The DP World Tour will become the first professional sports organization to use Amazon Leo as its official satellite connectivity partner, deploying low Earth orbit or LEO terminals at tournament venues starting in 2026. The network uses more than 3,000 LEO satellites to deliver high-speed internet
In a significant shift toward local-first privacy infrastructure, OpenAI has released Privacy Filter, a specialized open-source model designed to detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) before it ever reaches a cloud-based server. Launched today on AI code sharing community Huggi
LinkedIn COO Daniel Shapero is the company's new CEO, reporting to Ryan Roslansky, who oversees LinkedIn and Microsoft Office. Roslansky also named Mohak Shroff as president of platforms and digital work as the company scales its leadership around AI. Read More
When startup fundraising platform VentureCrowd began deploying AI coding agents, they saw the same gains as other enterprises: they cut the front-end development cycle by 90% in some projects. However, it didn’t come easy or without a lot of trial and error. VentureCrowd’s first challenge revolved a
From a Bill Gates-backed startup in the mid '90s to the Nobel stage in 2025, Fred Ramsdell reveals how "patient capital" and a mutation found in a 1940s mouse helped unlock immune system secrets. Read More
Every frontier AI lab right now is rationing two things: electricity and compute. Most of them buy their compute for model training from the same supplier, at the steep gross margins that have turned Nvidia into one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google does not. On Tuesday night, insi
Seattle's Office of Labor Standards released its first report analyzing data from the five largest delivery platforms, finding that worker pay increased and order volume grew under the city's gig worker minimum payment ordinance. DoorDash and outside researchers have reached different conclusions. R
Vast Data Inc. today said it has raised about $1 billion in a late-stage Series F funding round that values the company at $30 billion amid growing demand for infrastructure to support artificial intelligence workloads. Founder and Chief Executive Renen Hallak (pictured) said the size of the round w
Brev, a startup with roots in Seattle's tech scene, has raised $3.3 million in pre-seed funding for AI tools that automatically track how companies are performing against their goals. The company's AI agents join meetings, update goals, flag risks, and track follow-through on action items. Read More
Commvault Systems Inc. is deepening its integration with Google LLC’s cloud platform in order to help bolster the defenses of modern “agentic enterprises” and enhance their data resilience. At Google Cloud Next 2026, the company announced today that it’s bringing the full Commvault Cloud platform to
Octen, a startup with software that enables artificial intelligence agents to search the web, launched today with $10 million in seed funding. Square Peg led the investment. It was joined by Singapore-based venture capital firm Argor and a group of AI researchers. An AI agent that requires the abili
Iterable Inc., a customer engagement platform, today announced that it launched an artificial intelligence agent designed to help marketers keep customer interactions relevant as campaigns scale. The new agentic model, named Nova Agent, takes advantage of how the AI is reshaping the way the public i
