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Spotify may be synonymous with music streaming, but it’s also got a wildly popular developer-tool side-hustle called“Backstage.”   Backstage is an open source project that helps companies build their own internal developer portals: a catalog of their developer tools along with quick visualizations of the work the tools have done, and other metrics. But like many […]

AI DevOps toolHarness, founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, is on track to exceed $250 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, Bansal tells TechCrunch. The startup just raised a fresh $240 million Series E funding that values the company at $5.5 billion post-money. The round includes a $200 million primary investment led

Nous Research, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, released on Tuesday an open-source mathematical reasoning system called Nomos 1 that achieved near-elite human performance on this year's William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, one of the most prestigious and notoriously difficult undergraduate math contests in the world. The Putnam is known for its difficulty: While a

Presented by Oracle NetSuite When any company tells you it is their biggest product release in almost three decades, it’s worth listening. When the person saying it founded the world’s first cloud computing company, it’s time to take note. At SuiteWorld 2025, Evan Goldberg, founder and EVP of Oracle NetSuite, did just that when he

Almost a year after releasing Rerank 3.5, Cohere launched the latest version of its search model, now with a larger context window to help agents find the information they need to complete their tasks.  Cohere said in a blog post that Rerank 4 has a 32K context window, representing a four-fold increase compared to 3.5. 

Google just made a major move in the AI infrastructure arms race, elevating Amin Vahdat to chief technologist for AI infrastructure, a newly created position reporting directly to CEO Sundar Pichai, according to an internal memo firstreported by Semafor. It’s a signal of just how critical this work has become as Google pours up to$93

After a string ofdisturbing mental health incidentsinvolving AI chatbots, a group of state attorneys general have sent a letter to the AI industry’s top companies, with a warning to fix “delusional outputs” or risk being in breach of state law.  Theletter, signed by dozens of AGs from U.S. states and territories with the National Association

There's no shortage of generative AI benchmarks designed to measure the performance and accuracy of a given model on completing various helpful enterprise tasks — from coding to instruction following to agentic web browsing and tool use. But many of these benchmarks have one major shortcoming: they measure the AI's ability to complete specific problems

Nvidia is allegedly testing software that can track the location of its AI chips as reports of its chips being smuggled into China are on the rise. Nvidia has built location verification technology that would allow it to track which country a chip is located in, Reutersoriginally reported, citing anonymous sources. This software tracks computing

Spotify announced on Wednesday that, for the first time, it’s giving users more control over the streaming service’s algorithm. That’s at least how the company is framing the launch of its new “Promoted Playlists,” a feature that will initially be available to Premium subscribers in New Zealand. The feature, which is currently available in English