2026-07-29

Recursive is spending two-thirds of its funding on one AWS bill, and calls it small

Richard Socher’s new AI lab has just made an unusual bet with its money. Recursive has committed about $410m to a single, multi-year cloud contract with Amazon Web Services. That is roughly two-thirds of everything it has raised. The company left stealth in May with $650m at a $4.65bn valuation. It employs about 25 people. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-29

I watched Tom Holland's new Marvel movie Spider-Man: Brand New Day and it spins a fun and functional yarn but one that ultimately fails to avoid the same pitfalls where the MCU continues to go wrong

Tom Holland's new Marvel movie is fun enough, but doesn't take the big swings it needs to avoid some classic MCU pitfalls. [...]

2026-07-29

'I’m paying for things I sincerely did not ask for': Squarespace users aren’t happy with recent price hikes

Some Squarespace users see recent subscription increases as unfair [...]

2026-07-29

Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential

It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is on the line. [...]

2026-07-29

74% of workers ask AI questions instead of colleagues - with potentially serious consequences

A series of studies revealed that employees are spending less time asking their coworkers for help. Here's how that tactic could backfire and how organizations need to adapt. [...]

2026-07-29

The 10 coolest things that sold at the Colonel Sanders auction

From a planner that sparked a KFC lawsuit to a clip-on bow tie on the world's most famous logo, ten items from the Colonel Sanders auction [...]

2026-07-29

Shahid Hanif, CEO and Co-Founder of Shufti – Interview Series

Shahid Hanif, CEO and Co-Founder of Shufti, is a technology entrepreneur with extensive experience building identity verification, fintech, blockchain, and decentralized software platforms. He co-founded Shufti in 2017 and spent more than seven years as Chief Technology Officer, leading the in-house development of its artificial intelligence-driven biometric and document verification technology be [...]

2026-07-29

ChipAgents Expands Series A to $134 Million as AI Agents Move Deeper Into Semiconductor Design

ChipAgents has secured an additional $60 million in Series A2 financing, expanding its Series A round to $134 million as semiconductor companies explore how autonomous AI agents can shorten demanding chip design and verification cycles. B Capital joined the financing as a new investor, alongside existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Micron, MediaTek, Ericsson, ScOp Venture Capital, and other [...]

2026-07-29

groundcover Raises $100 Million Series C to Scale AI-Era Observability Platform

Cloud observability company groundcover has raised $100 million in Series C funding as it looks to expand a platform designed to help engineering teams and AI agents understand increasingly complex production environments. The round was led by One Peak, with participation from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and existing investors Zeev Ventures, Angular Ventures, Heavybit and Jibe. It brings grou [...]