Across the B2B SaaS teams I work with, a pattern is starting to repeat. Pipeline feels less predictable. Sales cycles stretch. Conversion conversations require more explanation than before. At the same time, traffic often looks stable – sometimes even growing. The disconnect comes from a shift that isn’t immediately visible in dashboards. Buyers are forming […]
Radical Ventures led the round, with Nvidia, Sequoia, Benchmark, Adobe, and Toyota alongside. Andrej Karpathy, Michael Eisner, and the Nintendo family are angels. Total raised is now over $450m. Decart, the AI research lab building real-time video and world models, announced on Monday it had raised $300m in new funding led by Radical Ventures. The […]
The United States and the Philippines are moving “very, very quickly” on a planned 4,000-acre artificial intelligence and supply chain hub in New Clark City, north of Manila, according to Jacob Helberg, the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Helberg visited the proposed site on Monday with more than a dozen American companies, […]
Google I/O 2026 begins on Monday at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, and the company has already shown much of its hand. The two-day developer conference, which runs 19–20 May with a keynote at 10 a.m. PT, is expected to formalise a set of announcements that Google began rolling out a week early […]
Pope Leo XIV used a historic visit to Europe’s largest university to denounce the growing role of artificial intelligence in warfare, warning that investments in AI-directed weaponry are driving the world toward what he called a “spiral of annihilation.” Speaking at Rome’s La Sapienza University on Wednesday, the pontiff called for tighter monitoring of […]
The Sydney-based AAAI Fellow joins the UNSW Business AI Lab to lead a team of Distinguished AI Scientists, in the latest step of Commonwealth Bank’s frontier-AI build-out. Commonwealth Bank of Australia appointed Professor Mary-Anne Williams as its first Chief AI Scientist on Monday, recruiting one of the country’s best-known AI researchers from the University of […]
Apple’s first standalone Siri app, coming in iOS 27, will include an auto-delete function for chat histories that borrows from the Messages app. Users will be able to configure the app to retain conversations for 30 days, one year, or indefinitely. The feature, reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter on Sunday, […]
AI companies are not just changing the way people work. They are changing the kinds of roles that exist. Org charts are morphing as an entirely new class of jobs emerges, some with titles that did not exist two years ago, others that represent old professions reborn inside the technology industry. The hiring sprees stand […]
Steven Soderbergh’s “John Lennon: The Last Interview” premiered on Saturday at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Built around a never-before-released two-hour-and-45-minute radio interview that Lennon and Yoko Ono gave to a San Francisco KFRC radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments on December 8, 1980, hours before Lennon was shot and killed, […]
OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has permanently taken charge of the company’s product strategy, merging ChatGPT, Codex, and the developer API into a single product organisation. In an internal memo seen by Wired, Brockman wrote that OpenAI will “invest in a single agentic platform and to merge ChatGPT and Codex into one unified agentic […]
