Companies

Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

After days of upheaval at Automattic, following a failed attempt to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg, the company has a new board.

Meta opens early access program for new Muse features

Meta has started accepting requests to join an early access program for new Muse features, the company said on Friday.

The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR's comment section?

When NPR staffers flagged strange comments under their podcasts on Spotify as bots, it took a Gen Z colleague to (immediately) figure out the mystery.

Big Tech's Watchdog Reality: From Alabama to the AI Cloud

TikTok's Alabama settlement, a Norwegian parody campaign, and CoreWeave's next test show Big Tech is navigating a fragmented, reputation-conscious marketplace.

Nvidia patents AI chatbot to streamline PC game optimization

An Nvidia patent suggests the company could push developers to use a new chatbot as a way to get guidance on how to optimize their new games before release.

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Series A Surge Backs Startups Selling Compliance and Compute

The thread of 2026: startups building AI audit tolls and domestic silicon are absorbing a record wave of jumbo Series A money into hands-on operations.

Anthropic's founders seek voting control ahead of IPO

Anthropic is asking its shareholders to approve a structure that would give its seven co-founders a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters.

Databricks buys Row Zero and is scouting for more startups to acquire

Databricks has brought cloud spreadsheet startup Row Zero adding yet another acquisition to its 2026 shopping spree.

AI Investment Enters Its Audit Phase

Three recent funding moves show investors shifting from backing AI adoption to measuring whether it pays off.

Ahead of U.S. IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible finacing

The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia and others, will fuel the company's massive AI data center buildout.

Exclusive: From Booking Calls To Late Check-Ins, Dextr AI Raises $6.7M For Hotel AI Agents

Dextr AI is emerging from stealth with $6.7 million in seed funding to build agents that handle reservations, guest requests, staff coordination and other hotel tasks.

Companies

The Real Deal Value in US Tech Is Moving Upstream

Across an IPO, an acquisition and a licensing debate, the deal value in US tech is migrating from the end product to the layer that controls it.

Groundcover picks up Kubernetes optimization startup Wand in its first acquisition

Observability company groundcover Inc. today disclosed its first acquisition, picking up Kubernetes resource optimization startup Wand Cloud Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. Wand's founders and employees are moving across to groundcover as part of the deal.

Machine vision company Cognex buys Intel robotics spin-off RealSense for $600M

U.S. machine vision company Cognex Corp. said today that it intends to buy RealSense Inc., the robotics and computer vision startup that was spun out of Intel Corp. 14 months earlier in a deal valued at around $600 million.