Two Silicon Valley veterans are building billion-dollar fortunes by replacing traditional customer service with AI agents. Their startup Sierra is on track to exceed $100 million in annual revenue while taking on the industry’s toughest problems.
Armilar Venture Partners has closed the first €120 million of its new Fund IV, focusing on Series A rounds for DeepTech companies across Spain and Portugal. The Lisbon-based firm aims to build a portfolio of around 20 startups, backed by institutional investors including SETT and the European Invest
Artificial intelligence is evolving beyond pure automation into ethical partnership. Across healthcare, finance, and autonomous vehicles, we’re seeing the emergence of what researchers call “collective moral imagination”—where human empathy meets machine intelligence to create more responsible decis
OpenAI has launched its Sora video generation app on Android in select markets including the US, Canada, and several Asian countries. The app uses OpenAI’s second-generation text-to-video model to create realistic videos with sound effects. This marks OpenAI’s first major push into social-style AI a
Tesla’s annual meeting features high-stakes votes on Elon Musk’s potential $1 trillion compensation and investment in his AI startup xAI. The board has rejected multiple shareholder proposals focused on accountability and governance. Proxy advisors are urging rejection of Musk’s pay package, calling
The fossil energy sector is shifting from centralized automation to field-orchestrated autonomy where devices make decisions locally. Using swarm governance, these systems can coordinate responses during emergencies without waiting for central commands. This approach maintains safety while improving
Cyber attackers are increasingly bypassing traditional malware by weaponizing the legitimate tools already installed on your systems. This “living-off-the-land” approach makes detection incredibly difficult since malicious activity blends with normal operations. Organizations now face the challenge
Famed cryptographer Daniel J. Bernstein has tested the new type-safe C compiler Fil-C and published favorable notes. This matters because DJB writes some of the world’s most secure C code and has offered $1,000 bounties for finding vulnerabilities in his software since 2009. His positive review lend
OpenAI’s Sora AI video app is now on Android after a massive iOS debut that saw over a million downloads in five days. This expands its reach to 70% of the smartphone market, but raises questions about content quality and authenticity in the AI video era.
Uber reported $13.47 billion in Q3 revenue with 3.5 billion trips, but a $479 million legal charge hammered profits. The company faces multiple lawsuits including a DOJ discrimination case while trying to maintain its growth trajectory.
