Databricks chief says AI’s real problem is context
Ali Ghodsi argues today's models are already capable of automating far more work than most enterprises are actually using them…
Positron’s CTO on whether the AI build-out gets finished
Thomas Sohmers tells 20VC that memory, power and debt, not chip supply, will decide how much of the AI data…
Nscale bets its Anthropic megadeal can carry a New York IPO
British data center builder Nscale has filed to list on the NYSE, leaning on a $44.6B Anthropic contract to sell…
Manus looks for $500M to fund its life after Meta
Cut loose from a blocked Meta takeover, Chinese AI agent maker Manus is back in the market hunting a $4B…
Vantora banks $100M to build startups its customers keep
The firm formerly known as UP.Labs has taken its first outside money and will now build physical AI ventures that…
Vals wants to grade AI on real work, not exams
A two-year-old benchmarking startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz keeps its test sets secret and scores models on the jobs they…
Anthropic puts Claude to work at a Bay Area wet lab
The model maker has confirmed it runs a physical biology laboratory, pairing robot-driven experiments with the same safety warnings that…
Belgian startup Logibot rents out robots by the shift
The hardware-agnostic platform raised €1.4M to give European warehouses the flexibility of temp staff without tying them to a single…
Finnish hyperspectral satellites map Afghanistan’s hidden poppy fields
A pilot with a European security stakeholder found Kuva Space's AI-assisted imagery cut false positives when hunting illicit crops from…
Ghana’s Complete Farmer takes $2.4M to widen farmer credit
The World Bank's private-sector arm is betting a convertible loan and advisory package can pull more smallholders into formal finance.
