Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?
Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.
Automattic names interim CFO after exec departures
Jeremy Klaperman, the CFO of the company’s WordPress VIP Enterprise business unit, will act as CFO for the time being.
Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation
Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable by helping small businesses get “level-funded” health insurance.
World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they’re actually building.
A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.
Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters
The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company’s first-ever chief technology officer.
In India, the new iPhone can arrive faster than a pizza
Availability of Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro series turned patchy within hours of its debut on India’s quick-commerce apps.
Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.
Khosla-backed Mazama Energy just raised $135M to drill deeper into super-hot-rock geothermal
Geothermal startup Mazama is drilling three miles underground to tap superhot rock, with one well capable of generating 15 MW of electricity 24/7.
Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular ‘AI factories’
The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.