Automattic names interim CFO after exec departures
Jeremy Klaperman, the CFO of the company’s WordPress VIP Enterprise business unit, will act as CFO for the time being.
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Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation
Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable, by helping small businesses get “level-funded” health insurance.
World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck
A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.
Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters
The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company’s first-ever chief
In India, the new iPhone can arrive faster than a pizza
Availability of Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro series turned patchy within hours of its debut on India’s quick-commerce apps.
Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI
Joby Aviation’s 3,100-mile autonomous flight signals its push beyond electric air taxis
An aircraft equipped with Joby Aviation’s autonomy technology flew across the United States without a human pilot taking control at
Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan
Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops
Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at