Slang AI Raises $36M to Scale Hospitality Voice AI
Ekemini / ventureburn - Slang AI has secured $36 million in Series B funding to accelerate the growth of its AI solutions for the voice communication segment of the hospitality industry. This funding roundThe post Slang AI Raises $36M to Scale Hospitality Voice AI appeared first…
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Everything to expect at Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: New phones, more AI features
mashable - Samsung is hosting a Galaxy Unpacked event on Feb. 25, and we're expecting a trio of new phones, wireless earbuds, and more announcements.
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1Password's $12 price bump tests user loyalty with 'AI-powered' features
Abbas Jaffar Ali / tbreak - 1Password bumps Family plan pricing 20% to $71.88 USD annually from March 2026. The increase adds AI features and enhanced security tools, but existing users keep current rates until renewal after the deadline.
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$200M on the Line: Pentagon Meets Anthropic CEO Over AI Restrictions
Aminu Abdullahi / eweek - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as the Pentagon presses for broader military use of Claude.The post $200M on the Line: Pentagon Meets Anthropic CEO Over AI Restrictions appeared first on eWEEK.
- $200M contract at stake amid Anthropic dispute (2)
- Anthropic holds firm on safety red lines (1)
- Pentagon's Friday ultimatum: DPA threat and supply-chain pressure (10)
- Search for Claude replacements: Grok, Gemini, OpenAI options (2)
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$200M contract at stake amid Anthropic dispute
Anthropic holds firm on safety red lines
Pentagon's Friday ultimatum: DPA threat and supply-chain pressure
Search for Claude replacements: Grok, Gemini, OpenAI options
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AI accounting startup Basis raises $100M at $1.15B valuation from Accel, GV to automate Big Four drudgery
Vignesh R / techfundingnews - Artificial intelligence is no longer just a back-office tool in finance. It is now directly affecting how accounting…
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Nimble raises $47M to scale agentic web search platform for enterprise AI
Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Nimble announced today that it has raised $47 million in new funding to accelerate development of its agentic web search platform, expand its multi-agent research capabilities and scale up its governed real-time web data infrastructure for enterprise arti…
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Anthropic launches new push for enterprise agents with plugins for finance, engineering, and design
Russell Brandom / techcrunch - It's a major opportunity to grow Anthropic’s enterprise client base — and a significant threat to SaaS products currently performing those functions.
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Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls, AI Kill Switches
BeauHD / slashdot - Firefox 148 introduces granular AI controls and a global "AI kill switch" that allows users to disable or selectively manage the browser's AI features. Phoronix reports: Among the AI features that can be toggled individually are around translations, image…
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Anthropic accuses Chinese firms of distillation attacks
Tom Chivers / semafor - Distillation involves training less capable models on more advanced ones’ output.
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Canva acquires Cavalry and Mango AI to dominate motion design
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Canva announced the acquisition of Cavalry and Mango AI on Monday to strengthen its animation and marketing capabilities. UK-based Cavalry develops 2D motion animation tools for advertising, marketing, gaming, and generative art. Mango AI was building rei…
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Munich-based VoiceLine raises €10 million to scale its voice AI platform for enterprise frontline teams
Rahul Raj / eu-startups - VoiceLine, a Munich-based voice AI platform for enterprise frontline teams, today announced that it has closed a €10 million Series A funding round to scale its team and platform, as well as expand internationally. The round was led by Alstin Capital and …
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OpenAI Calls In the Consultants For Its Enterprise Push
BeauHD / slashdot - OpenAI has formed a multi-year "Frontier Alliance" with four consulting heavyweights to accelerate enterprise adoption of its no-code AI agent platform, OpenAI Frontier. TechCrunch reports: The alliance includes multi-year partnerships between OpenAI and …
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Amazon to Sink $12 Billion Into Data Centers as Wall Street (and Everyone Else) Turns Against AI Spending
AJ Dellinger / gizmodo - Surely they can just spend their way out.
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Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.K. and other markets
Lauren Forristal / techcrunch - Spotify continues to test its AI-powered “Prompted Playlists” feature, now rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden.
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IBM Shares Crater 13% After Anthropic Says Claude Code Can Tackle COBOL Modernization
msmash / slashdot - IBM shares plunged nearly 13% on Monday after Anthropic published a blog post arguing that its Claude Code tool could automate much of the complex analysis work involved in modernizing COBOL, the decades-old programming language that still underpins an es…
- Anthropic's Claude Code technical claims (2)
- Developer reaction: COBOL community responds (1)
- Market panic: IBM shares tumble (6)
- Sector ripple: consulting and crypto wobble (2)
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Anthropic's Claude Code technical claims
Developer reaction: COBOL community responds
Market panic: IBM shares tumble
Sector ripple: consulting and crypto wobble
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Sam Altman is tired of ‘unfair’ critiques about AI’s energy use. Climate experts say his defensive stance is misguided
Kristin Toussaint / fastcompany - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has defended the resource-intensive use of AI by comparing it to all the energy—and food—that humans require, sparking a wave of backlash across social media. That comparison, experts in climate and tech spaces say, is misguided, dow…
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Google Bans AI Subscribers Over OpenClaw, Skips Refunds
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google has permanently banned paid AI Pro and Ultra subscribers for routing Gemini through OpenClaw via Antigravity OAuth, offering no appeals and no refunds.The post Google Bans AI Subscribers Over OpenClaw, Skips Refunds appeared first on WinBuzzer.
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Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of abusing Claude to improve their own models
Jackson Chen / engadget - Anthropic is issuing a call to action against AI "distillation attacks," after accusing three AI companies of misusing its Claude chatbot. On its website, Anthropic claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax have been conducting "industrial-scale campaig…
- Allegations arrive amid export-control debate and industry lobbying pressure (3)
- Anthropic details ‘distillation’ attacks: 24,000 fake accounts, 16 million queries (11)
- Online critics ridicule Anthropic, accuse hypocrisy and industry posturing (5)
- OTHER: Chinese firms' growth and unrelated community reactions (1)
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Allegations arrive amid export-control debate and industry lobbying pressure
Anthropic details ‘distillation’ attacks: 24,000 fake accounts, 16 million queries
Online critics ridicule Anthropic, accuse hypocrisy and industry posturing
OTHER: Chinese firms' growth and unrelated community reactions
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Microsoft just handed the Xbox keys to an AI exec. The internet is already freaking out
Chris Morris / fastcompany - Friday’s news of a major shakeup at Microsoft’s Xbox division caught the gaming world by surprise. Phil Spencer, who has run Xbox for almost 12 years, announced his retirement, effective immediately—just months after Microsoft insisted he was “not retirin…
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Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
Simon Willison / simonwillison - Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AIReally interesting case-study from Andreas Kling on advanced, sophisticated use of coding agents for ambitious coding projects with critical code. After a few years hoping Swift's platform support outside of the Appl…
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