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Language learning marketplace Preply is now valued at $1.2 billion after raising a $150 million that marks a new chapter for the 14-year-old company.

Consumers spent more money in mobile apps than games in 2025, driven by AI app adoption.

Featuring new Intel Arc GPU with up to 12 Xe cores and up to 120 TOPS, NPU 5 with up to 50 TOPS, and Advanced CPU Architecture for Edge AI and General Embedded Systems — Industrial-Temperature SKUs Extended for Ruggedized Applications Summary: New Heights in Edge AI: Significantly Faster NPU and... ...

Q/C Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: QCLS) (“Q/C Technologies” or “the Company”), a pioneer of quantum-class computing at the speed of light, today announced the appointment of Chelsea Voss to its Board of Directors. Ms. Voss is a computer scientist and Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where she has ...

One Identity, a trusted leader in identity security, today announces a major upgrade to One Identity Manager, a top-rated IGA solution, strengthening identity governance as a critical security control for modern enterprise environments.  One Identity Manager 10.0 introduces security-driven capabilit...

Today KNIME announced that Michael Berthold, Founder and CEO, is stepping down from the role. Trevor Kaufman, a seasoned CEO with a proven track record in scaling high-growth SaaS businesses, has been appointed to lead the company into its next phase. “It’s been an incredible journey to lead KNIME f...

In this tutorial, we demonstrate how a semi-centralized Anemoi-style multi-agent system works by letting two peer agents negotiate directly without a manager or supervisor. We show how a Drafter and a Critic iteratively refine an output through peer-to-peer feedback, reducing coordination overhead w...

The feature is designed to stop problematic content from being delivered to users under the age of 18.

Humans&, a startup that believes AI should empower people, not replace them, has reportedly raised a $480 million seed round at a $4.48 billion valuation.

RiseLink Technologies, a provider of edge intelligence and ultra-low-power connectivity solutions for AI-native devices, brought together leaders across AI, hardware, and connected products at CES 2026 to explore how intelligence is moving beyond the cloud and into the physical world. Through curate...

The funding comes as the startup claims it has scaled ARR to $50 million, and is targeting $100 million by April 2026.

From Agencies to AI Trust: How Boost.ai’s CMO on Storytelling, Innovation, and Building Customer Trust in Regulated Industries with Conversational AI David, you bring two decades of experience across media agencies, creative agencies, and platform-side roles, most recently leading global marketing s...

Collaboration is designed to improve analytical speed and accuracy of Freenome’s blood-based cancer screening tests Freenome today announced an initiative to advance its blood-based early cancer screening program by leveraging NVIDIA deep learning technology and expertise to improve the recognition ...

Ambition for the hyperscaler-independent data protection provider is to be “the most partner-friendly organization in the world” Keepit, the only independent, cloud-native data protection and recovery provider, today announced a strengthened, consolidated global channel organization designed to acce...

RISA Labs, a company pioneering an AI operating system for oncology, today announced the closing of an $11.1 million Series A funding round. The financing was co-led by Cencora Ventures and Optum Ventures, with participation from Oncology Ventures, Z21 Ventures, and John Simon (co-founder of General...

The exclusive community brings together fortune 500 and enterprise 2000 CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs to secure and accelerate the world’s AI transformation Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK), the Security and AI Operations company, today introduces Rubrik CXO Visionaries, a community designed for C-level IT and security ...

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading global manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and hardware solutions, today unveiled the X870E AERO X3D WOOD at CES 2026. This new category of premium motherboards blends high-performance engineering with lifestyle-focused design. As PCs increasingly mov...

New self-driving features in HPE Aruba Networking CX switch, expanded AI-native retail analytics, and HPE Nonstop Compute capabilities strengthen infrastructure for critical retail transactions HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced an expansion of its retail-ready portfolio to help customers improve conne...

New research from the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value reveals that nearly eight in ten (79%) surveyed executives expect AI will significantly contribute to their revenue by 2030 – up from 40% today – yet, few (24%) have a clear view of where that revenue will come from. Despite... The p...

In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end streaming voice agent that mirrors how modern low-latency conversational systems operate in real time. We simulate the complete pipeline, from chunked audio input and streaming speech recognition to incremental language model reasoning and streamed text-to-sp...

A practical, step‑by‑step tutorial showing how to build an AI‑powered email assistant using the ChatGPT API. Learn how to summarize long emails, extract action items, and generate professional replies with Python code examples, prompt design strategies, and a complete walkthrough using a realistic b...

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

Misaligned agents are just one layer of the AI security challenge that startup Witness AI is trying to solve. It detects employee use of unapproved tools, blocking attacks, and ensuring compliance.

Major multinationals join 100+ exhibitors from 18+ countries as the event unveils Africa’s first international startup pavilion and manufacturing innovation competition The World Advanced Manufacturing & Future Mobility Exhibition (WAM Morocco) has secured a transformative lineup of global industria...