Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, just became a 100 million dollar business
Arena: From Research Project to Billion-Dollar Leaderboard
Arena, the crowdsourced AI leaderboard that started as a UC Berkeley research project in 2023, has …
WhatsApp is finally letting users reserve usernames so they never have to hand over their phone number
WhatsApp Opens Username Reservations
WhatsApp is opening username reservations starting today, allowing its more than three billion users to connect with peop…
TIDAL will strip royalties from AI-generated music and tag every track it catches
TIDAL Cuts Off Funding for AI-Generated Music
TIDAL is cutting off the money supply for AI-generated music. The streaming service announced a new policy that …
A former Tesla Optimus engineer settled a trade secret lawsuit and raised $11M to build the robot hands his old employer still cannot crack
Proception: Robotics Startup Founded by Former Tesla Engineer Raises $11M for Dexterous Robotic Hands
Proception, a robotics startup founded by former Tesla …
AI Made Every Individual Stronger and Every Team More Fragmented. Yimao Zhou Is Building the OS to Reverse That
The 23-year-old founder of Emagen AI argues the entire agent industry is optimizing the wrong unit.
His answer is an operating system where AI drives the wor…
Self-driving firm Momenta opens $752mn Hong Kong IPO
Momenta Enters Public Markets with Hong Kong IPO
Momenta is heading to the public markets. The self-driving software firm has opened its Hong Kong Initial Pub…
Rocket Lab buys Iridium for $8bn in a bet to become a smaller Starlink
Rocket Lab Shifts Focus: From Selling Tools to Owning the Mine
For most of its life, Rocket Lab has been a provider of the essentials for the space economy—sm…
RELX lines up another £100M buyback as its 2026 repurchases roll on
RELX: A Quiet Giant in Data and Analytics
RELX does not make headlines the way a chip foundry or an AI lab does, which is rather the point of its business mod…
Google Cloud will sell specialist AI models built for science
Google Integrates Large Quantitative Models from SandboxAQ
Google is adding SandboxAQ’s ‘large quantitative models’ to its cloud marketplace, pairing Gemini w…
Omen AI raises $31m to watch the water inside AI data centres
The Unglamorous Reality of AI: Plumbing Challenges
The unglamorous truth about the AI boom is that some of its hardest problems are plumbing. As data centers …