Venture capital technology news
Windsurf: OpenAI’s potential $3B bet to drive the ‘vibe coding’ movement
18 April 2025 @ 12:13 am
A Windsurf deal would allow OpenAI to own more of the full-stack coding experience (and it would be its most expensive acquisition to date).
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash introduces ‘thinking budgets’ that cut AI costs by 600% when turned down
17 April 2025 @ 11:27 pm
Google's new Gemini 2.5 Flash AI model introduces adjustable "thinking budgets" that let businesses pay only for the reasoning power they need, balancing advanced capabilities with cost efficiency.
Twitch has its usual March viewership slump | StreamElements
17 April 2025 @ 10:29 pm
StreamElements has released its latest report, which shows Twitch is having its usual dip in viewers in March.
New method lets DeepSeek and other models answer ‘sensitive’ questions
17 April 2025 @ 10:13 pm
Enterprise risk company CTGT said their method cuts bias and censorship in models like DeepSeek.
BigQuery is 5x bigger than Snowflake and Databricks: What Google is doing to make it even better
17 April 2025 @ 9:37 pm
Google ramps up the competition in the enterprise data space claiming its AI innovation help it to leapfrog rivals.
This AI startup just raised $7.5m to fix commercial insurance for America’s 24m underprotected small businesses
17 April 2025 @ 7:39 pm
New York AI startup 1Fort secures $7.5M in funding to streamline commercial insurance for small businesses with its broker-focused platform that cuts paperwork from hours to minutes.
Jack in the Box springs into Fortnite
17 April 2025 @ 6:00 pm
Brands are chasing Gen Z in games, and so it's no surprise that Jack in the Box is springing into the gaming world of Fortnite.
Eleventh Hour Games updates Last Epoch, a game built by Redditors that has crossed 2.5M units
17 April 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Last Epoch, built by Redditors, has crossed 2.5 million units and now has a major update for its second season.
Spexi unveils LayerDrone decentralized network for crowdsourcing high-res drone images of Earth
17 April 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Spexi is launching the LayerDrone Foundation and its decentralized network aimed at encouraging amateur drone pilots to capture high-res Earth imagery.
NVIDIA announcements, news and more, from GTC 2025
17 April 2025 @ 2:50 pm
At GTC, NVIDIA unveiled major advancements – from the Blackwell Ultra AI platform to advancements in robotics and accelerated computing.