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Amazon Ring, facing a surge in customer-support calls during last year's holiday season, evaluated more than 40 AI voice vendors before choosing voice startup Vapi to handle its inbound phone traffic. That single enterprise win didn't just…
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Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire developer tools startup Stainless for at least $300 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The Anthropic Stainless acquisition would hand the Claude maker ownership of the…
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In just six months, Moonshot AI funding has ballooned from a $4.3 billion valuation to a jaw-dropping $20 billion — a nearly fivefold leap that no rival Chinese AI lab has matched this cycle. The Beijing-based company closed a $2 billion…
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The funding will scale the startup's platform, which uses AI to automate outdated and human-reliant operational workflows Corvera CEO Christopher Kong (Forbes 30u30) previously built Better Nature into Europe's leading tempeh…
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Featherless.ai, a serverless inference platform specializing in open-source AI, announced it closed $20 million in Series A funding on April 30. That date matters. The Featherless AI funding round arrives as enterprises worldwide are…
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With global data center electricity consumption set to more than double by 2030 to approximately 945 terawatt-hours — roughly equivalent to Japan's entire current annual electricity use — the world's demand for nuclear power has never felt…
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A process that typically takes a human engineer eight hours — such as structural calculations for a utility pole replacement project — can be completed by a Cloneable AI agent in under two minutes. That single stat captures the audacious…
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American Express acquires Hyper — an AI-focused expense management startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — as the company expands automation capabilities for commercial clients, with the announcement dropping on April 16, 2026. The Amex…
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Over 1.5 million developers rely on Anthropic's docs every month — and the platform answering their questions belongs to a startup most of them have never thought about. That startup is Mintlify. The story of how Claude Code uses Mintify…
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Runway launched a $10 million venture fund to invest in early-stage companies building across AI, media, and world simulation — and that's only half the story. Alongside it came the runway builders program, a startup initiative designed to…
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