<p>Amazon Chime, the tech giant&#8217;s underwhelming alternative to Zoom and Google Meet, is shutting down for good. The company on Wednesday confirmed it will end support for Chime, including its Business Calling features, on February 20, 2026. As part of this transition, Amazon stopped accepting new Chime accounts as of February 19, 2025. From now [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Eventual&#8217;s data processing engine Daft was inspried by the founders&#8217; experience working on Lyft&#8217;s autonomous vehicle project. </p>

<p>AllSpice&#8217;s platform sits between existing workflow software. It allows hardware teams to collaborate on the types of documents they traditionally work in — documents that don&#8217;t easily translate over Slack and email — like PCB files and electronic CAD files, both of which are used to design circuit boards. AllSpice&#8217;s platform has landed customers such as Blue Origin and Bose and just raised a $15 million Series A round. </p>

<p>The investing conglomerate is looking to team up with TSMC on the initiative as SoftBank continues to pour money into AI. </p>

<p>From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot has happened already.</p>

<p>Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. How will 2025 compare?</p>

<p>Amazon CEO Andy Jassy expects that AI automations will both change how people work and change the number of people needed. </p>

<p>Rumors of these layoffs began back in April as Intel looks to refocus on its core business units and shed additional bloat. </p>

<p>Amazon and Talen revised an existing deal to buy power from the Susquehanna nuclear power plant.</p>

<p>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he isn&#8217;t confident that the U.S. will change its mind on chip export restrictions anytime soon. </p>

<p>Conveyor claims that its AI agent can fill out over 90% of customer security questions fully, autonomously, and accurately, saving customers many hours and accelerating their sales process. The 4-year-old startup nabbed a $20 million Series B from SignalFire. </p>

<p>Warp can&#8217;t automate long-haul trucking or short-range delivery, so it&#8217;s working on what it can potentially change: the workflows inside its warehouses.</p>

<p>A concept Landbase&#8217;s CEO calls &#8220;digital trust&#8221; led nearly 130 VCs to pursue the &#8220;vibe GTM&#8221; startup.</p>

<p>The Lemony AI device can run large language models, AI agents and automated workflows locally.</p>

<p>The AI-friendly data storage startup is raising capital at a giant leap in valuation. </p>

<p>Linear, an enterprise software maker that competes with many of Atlassian&#8217;s products, announced that it raised $82 million in a Series C funding round led by Accel. </p>

<p>Glean announced on Tuesday that is raised a $150 million Series F led by Wellington Management at a $7.2 billion valuation. </p>

<p>A healthy chunk of corporate America has eagerly embraced AI, betting that the tech will bring heretofore unrealizable productivity gains. But adoption may be leveling off, according to transaction data from fintech company Ramp. </p>

<p>Qualcomm has acquired Alphawave Semi, a U.K.-based semiconductor company focused on high-speed data center connectivity, for around $2.4 billion.</p>

<p>Brad Menezes, CEO of enterprise vibe-coding startup Superblocks, is convinced that the next crop of billion-dollar startup ideas are hiding in almost plain sight: system prompts.</p>