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Firecrawl’s co-founder and CEO Caleb Peffer knew the exact moment he found the investor to lead his Series A.  He was in a coffee meeting with Nexus Venture Partner’s Abhishek Sharma at the Blue Bottle in San Francisco’s South Park (a favorite VC haunt). While describing the future of the company, he was gesturing so […]

Roughlyone in three adults in the U.S. regularly gets insufficient sleep, driving demand for tools that can monitor, analyze, and enhance rest.Eight Sleep, founded in 2014, offers AI-powered sleep tech products that promise to transform your bed into a preventive health device. The New York-based startup announced Tuesday that it raised a fresh $100 million

OpenAI today launched a new, cheaper ChatGPT paid subscription plan in India called ChatGPT GO, priced at ₹399 per month ($4.60), which is more affordable than the ₹1,999 (about $23) per month Plus Plan. The company had turned on local currency pricing for all its plans a few days ago, and with this launch, it

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now Small models are having a moment. On the heels of the release of a new AI vision modelsmall enough to fit on a smartwatchfromMIT spinoff Liquid AI, and a model

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now Enterprises seem to accept it as a basic fact: AI models require a significant amount of compute; they simply have to find ways to obtain more of it.  But it

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now Researchers from theUniversity of California, Berkeley,Stanford UniversityandDatabrickshave introduced a new AI optimization method calledGEPAthat significantly outperforms traditional reinforcement learning (RL) techniques for adapting large language models (LLMs) to specialized tasks.

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now TensorZero, a startup building open-source infrastructure for large language model applications, announced Monday it has raised $7.3 million in seed funding led byFirstMark, with participation fromBessemer Venture Partners,Bedrock,DRW,Coalition, and dozens

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now OpenAI’sGPT-5has arrived, bringing faster performance, more dependable reasoning and stronger tool use. It joins Claude Opus 4.1 and other frontier models in signaling a rapidly advancing cognitive frontier. While artificial

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for “potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices and misleadingly marketing themselves as mental health tools,” according to apress releaseissued Monday. “In today’s digital age, we must continue to fight to protect Texas kids from deceptive and exploitative technology,” Paxton

The website for xAI’sGrok chatbotis exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy conspiracist” that seems designed to handhold a user into beliefs that “a secret global cabal” controls the world. TechCrunch has confirmed the system prompt exposure, first reported on by404 Media. They include instructions for a range of