<p>Geothermal resources have enormous potential to provide the sort of consistent power that data centers crave.</p>

<p>On Tuesday, OpenAI released new tools designed to help developers and enterprises build AI agents &#8212; automated systems that can independently accomplish tasks &#8212; using the company&#8217;s own AI models and frameworks. The tools are part of OpenAI&#8217;s new Responses API, which lets businesses develop custom AI agents that can perform web searches, scan through [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Enterprises these days can choose from hundreds of apps and services available to secure their networks, data, and assets — nearly as many more to help them manage all the alerts and extra work that those security apps generate. But what if you could build your own apps, customized to your own workloads, to simplify [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Dustin Moskovitz is retiring from Asana, the software company he founded in 2008. Asana, a task management platform, announced his retirement as part of the company&#8217;s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report, CNBC reported. Moskovitz informed the board he intends to move into a chair role when a new CEO starts. The company raised more than $450 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Poolside co-founder and CEO Jason Warner didn&#8217;t mince words: He thinks that most companies looking to build foundation AI models should instead focus on building applications. Poolside is an AI-powered software development platform. Warner told the audience at the HumanX AI conference in Las Vegas on Monday that he thinks intelligence is the most important commodity in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A nifty new Gmail capability powered by Google&#8217;s Gemini AI has arrived for Google Workspace customers. Starting Monday, users can add events to a Google Calendar directly from an email. Gemini will automatically detect calendar-related content in an email and present an &#8220;Add to calendar&#8221; button. After clicking the button, the side panel in Gmail [&hellip;]</p>

<p>More consolidation is playing out in the security industry as platform players scoop up technology to give them deeper expertise in growing business areas. On Thursday, Armis, a $4.2 billion specialist in cyber-exposure management, said it would be acquiring Otorio, a specialist in securing industrial and physical environments.  Terms of the deal are not being [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Anna Patterson has had a storied career in Silicon Valley. She founded three startups, including search engine upstarts Xift and Cuil, as well as recall.archive.org, which became the Internet Archive. She was the vice president of engineering at Google, and later started Gradient Ventures, an AI-focused seed fund. And she isn&#8217;t done building. Patterson told [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Darwinbox, a startup with Indian roots building a SaaS platform for hiring, onboarding, and employee administration, has raised $140 million to take on the likes of Rippling and Deel as it seeks to expand internationally, especially in the U.S. The funding is being co-led by KKR and Partners Group, and is a mix of primary [&hellip;]</p>

<p>British startup Quantexa has made a name for itself over the years with its enterprise platform that employs AI and data analytics to fight money laundering and fraud. Today, the company said it has raised a fresh $175 million to double down on that business and move deeper into another hot area: helping organizations understand [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The founder and CEO of IPO-bound fintech Klarna took to X to once again explain why his company ditched Salesforce’s flagship CRM product about a year ago in favor of its own homegrown AI system.&nbsp; But this time, Sebastian Siemiatkowski emphasized that he doesn’t think others will — or should — follow his lead. “I [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Calls for WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg to step down from his leadership role have increased in recent months amid his controversial fight and legal battle with hosting company WP Engine. Mullenweg not only intends to stay, he&#8217;s also thinking about how he plans to manage succession planning. He doesn&#8217;t want to pass [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As more people turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT to look things up on the internet, the way companies approach their online presence has to change. Scrunch AI wants to help enterprises better prepare for a world in which more AI bots and agents visit their website than humans do. Scrunch AI says its platform [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Agents are the next big thing in AI. Some define these &#8220;agents&#8221; differently from others, but the general idea is, they&#8217;re AI-powered tools that can perform tasks autonomously. The agent hype has reached a fever pitch, but one startup was relatively early to the game: LlamaIndex. Founded by former Uber research scientists Jerry Liu and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Despite clouds of uncertainty looming over the economy and geopolitics, people still want to travel. To meet that demand, Mews, an Amsterdam-founded &#8220;unicorn&#8221; building an SaaS platform for hotel management, has raised a fresh $75 million. The funding is coming at a crossroads in the travel industry. From one direction, the positive signals: Analysts at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Big Tech companies aren’t sleeping on quantum chips: Amazon Web Services introduced Ocelot; Microsoft, Majorana; and Google, Willow. But although all of these can be considered to be breakthroughs, quantum startups often focus on more practical advancements — and they are making progress. Founded in 2020, Dutch startup QuantWare is one of these, which claims [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Upholding export controls on semiconductor chips made in the U.S. may be harder than Washington, D.C. thinks. Chinese buyers are getting their hands on computing systems with Nvidia&#8217;s Blackwell chips through third-party traders located in other regions, The Wall Street Journal reported. Buyers in Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam are buying these resources for their own [&hellip;]</p>

<p>HackerPulse builds dashboards of information pulled from engineering tools to show how and where engineers spend their time.</p>

<p>The software supply chain is notoriously porous: A reported 81% of codebases contain high- or critical-risk open source vulnerabilities. A single vulnerability can have a far-reaching impact on the wider software supply chain, as evidenced by the likes of the Log4Shell exploit that saw millions of applications exposed to potential remote code execution hacks via [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI has the power to transform how people work, but getting tangible value out of AI isn&#8217;t as easy as throwing any AI application at any workflow. It can be hard for enterprises to figure out which AI applications help their business and which are just hype. Workhelix wants to solve that problem. Workhelix is [&hellip;]</p>