<p>Bluesky users on Android now have access to a new app that works more like Instagram than X. On Tuesday, an app called Pinksky launched an Android version of its photo-centric social networking experience built on top of Bluesky. The app is now one of many attempting to court former Instagram users by offering a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As the chief product officer for AI customer service startup Talkdesk, Charanya &#8220;CK&#8221; Kannan said that enterprises often say they want to automate different workflows but that it&#8217;s really hard to implement AI. Enterprises are dealing with clunky, legacy software that often doesn&#8217;t have APIs, creating a daunting task their IT departments weren&#8217;t prioritizing. &#8220;Every [&hellip;]</p>

<p>HR giant Workday is launching a new way for enterprises to keep track of all of their AI agents in one place. It&#8217;s also launching a few more AI agents of its own, for good measure. Silicon Valley-based Workday announced on Tuesday the release of Workday Agent System of Record, which is meant to help [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Unimaginable disasters like the fires in Los Angeles cause hundreds of billions of dollars in destruction, and put a huge focus on the role the insurance industry plays in the process of rebuilding. Those events also lead to major financial losses at the insurance companies themselves, and longer term, all of this will put a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When companies take shortcuts to build their software stack, prioritizing speed and quick fixes over quality and long-term scalability, they can end up with what&#8217;s known as &#8220;technical debt.&#8221; Essentially, if a codebase is not constructed properly, as it grows, it will become more complex, cost more to maintain, and become ever harder to add [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Zeta, a provider of banking software to banks and fintech startups, has raised $50 million from a strategic investor at a $2 billion valuation. The new investment from American healthcare company Optum marks a 70% increase in the Bengaluru-based startup&#8217;s valuation from the $1.15 billion price tag (pre-money) it earned in 2021, when it raised [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Unknown attackers may have exploited a zero-day bug to access data on locked phones, according to Apple.</p>

<p>Just six months after defense tech Anduril raised a massive $1.5 billion round that valued the company at $14 billion, it&#8217;s in talks to raise another $2.5 billion, at a valuation of up to $28 billion, sources told CNBC. The deal would, not surprisingly, be led by Founders Fund, which is reportedly writing a $1 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Andrew Ng, the founder and former leader of Google Brain, supports Google&#8217;s recent decision to drop its pledge not to build AI systems for weapons. &#8220;I&#8217;m very glad that Google has changed its stance,&#8221; Ng said during an onstage interview Thursday evening with TechCrunch at the Military Veteran Startup Conference in San Francisco. Earlier this [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020 and schools transitioned to online learning, both Joe Titus and Paul Suhr were concerned about how to maintain their children&#8217;s activity levels in the absence of mandatory physical education classes and sports. The two friends’ solution was Hiveclass, a New York-based edtech platform that hosts online courses for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A 25-year-old Doge staffer resigned over racist posts on X.</p>

<p>GitHub has announced a slew of updates for Copilot, while also giving a glimpse into a more agentic future for its AI-powered pair programmer. Among the notable updates includes a feature called Vision for Copilot, which allows users to attach a screenshot, photo, or diagram to a chat, with Copilot generating the interface, code, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>And it&#8217;s the latest in an ongoing saga over the company&#8217;s future ownership.</p>

<p>AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington were able to train an AI &#8220;reasoning&#8221; model for under $50 in cloud compute credits, according to a new research paper released last Friday. The model, known as s1, performs similarly to cutting-edge reasoning models, such as OpenAI&#8217;s o1 and DeepSeek&#8217;s R1, on tests measuring math [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Stripe has closed on its $1.1 billion purchase of stablecoin platform Bridge — marking the payment giant’s largest acquisition to date and tangible push into crypto. Co-founded in 2022 by Coinbase and Square alumni Zach Abrams and Sean Yu, San Antonio, Texas-based Bridge built an API that helps companies accept stablecoins. The pair raised $58 [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Powerhouse venture firm Andreessen Horowitz has hired Daniel Penny as an investor, its web page confirms.&nbsp; Penny is the former Marine who was tried last year and found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a homeless man on a New York City subway. After the man acted erratically, Penny held him [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amid China&#8217;s retaliation to recently announced U.S. tariffs, Intel may find itself in the hot seat with China&#8217;s regulators. China is apparently considering an antitrust probe into semiconductor giant Intel, according to reporting from the Financial Times. This would be in addition to the set of tariffs against the U.S. that China announced on Monday. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI gave me one week to test its new AI agent, Operator, a system that can independently do tasks for you on the internet. Operator is the closest thing I&#8217;ve seen to the tech industry&#8217;s vision of AI agents — systems that can automate the boring parts of life, freeing us up to do the [&hellip;]</p>