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Semiconductor startupPositronhas secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The outfit plans to use the capital to speed up deployment of its high-speed memory chips, a critical component for the chips used for AI workloads, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.  Investors in the round include Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), […]

As Intel continues to try to turn itself around, it’s CEO promised that the company will start producing a new type of chip, one that has been made very popular by rival Nvidia. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced that it will start producing graphics processing units (GPUs) at theCisco AI Summiton Tuesday. GPUs are more

Apple is bringing agentic coding to Xcode. On Tuesday, the companyannouncedthe release of Xcode 26.3, which will allow developers to use agentic tools, including Anthropic’s Claude Agent andOpenAI’s Codex, directly in Apple’s official app development suite. The Xcode 26.3 Release Candidate is available to all Apple Developers today from the developer website and will hit

A growing number of people areasking OpenAI’s ChatGPTand other LLMs about their health, often discovering that the chatbots provide remarkably useful medical insights. KJ Dhaliwal (pictured left), who in 2019 sold the South Asian dating app Dil Mil for$50 million, says he has been thinking about the inefficiencies of the U.S. healthcare system ever since

Fitbit founders James Park and Eric Friedman haveannouncedthe launch of a new AI startup called Luffu that aims to help families proactively monitor their health. The duo are developing an “intelligent family care system” that will start with an app experience and then expand into hardware devices. Luffu uses AI in the background to gather

Peak XV Partners, a leading venture capital firm in India and Southeast Asia, has seen a fresh round of senior departures. These follow other leadership exits over the past year as it pushes ahead with plans to deepen its focus on AI investing and expand its footprint in the U.S., while keeping India as its

SpaceX has acquired Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, creating the world’s most valuable private company, the spaceflight company announced Monday. Musk, who is also the CEO of SpaceX, wrote in amemoposted to the rocket company’s website that the merger is largely about creating space-based data centers — an idea he has become fixated on

Cloud data company Snowflake has entered into a$200 million multi-year AI dealwith OpenAI on Monday, the latest signal that enterprise AI competition continues to heat up. Under the deal, Snowflake’s 12,600 customers will have access to OpenAI models across all three major cloud providers. Snowflake employees access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise as well. The two

Firefox will begin catering to those who don’t want AI in their browser. On Monday, Mozillaannouncedthat Firefox will soon let users block all current and future generative AI features. Users will also have the option to block certain AI features in Firefox, while keeping others. Starting with Firefox 148, which is rolling out on February

AI is already having a seismic impact on how software is written, with much of the grunt work of programming now performed by swarms of agents and subagents. But as developers experiment with new interfaces and form factors for human-AI collaboration, it’s become hard for even the most advanced AI labs to keep up.  The