Modern enterprises generate enormous amounts of security data, but legacy tools like Splunk still require companies to store all of it in one place before they can detect threats – a slow and costly process that’s increasingly breaking down in cloud environments where volumes are exploding and data lives everywhere.
AI cybersecurity startup Vega Security wants to flip that approach by running…
Hauler Hero collects $16M for its AI waste management software
February 11, 2026
Hauler Hero has picked up fresh funds as demand for its AI-powered waste management software continues to pile up.
The New York-based startup raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Frontier Growth with participation from K5 Global and Somersault Ventures, among…
The most seductive narrative in American work culture right now isn’t that AI will take your job. It’s that AI will save you from it.
That’s the version the industry has spent the last three years selling to millions of nervous people who are eager to buy it. Yes, some…
On Monday, Databricks announced it reached a $5.4 billion revenue run rate, growing 65% year-over-year, of which more than $1.4 billion was from its AI products.
Co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi wanted to share these growth numbers because there’s so much talk about how AI is going to kill the SaaS business, he told TechCrunch.
“Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, it’s SaaS. What’s going to happen to…
ChatGPT rolls out ads
February 10, 2026
OpenAI on Monday announced it’s beginning to test ads in the U.S. for users on its Free and Go subscription tiers.
The newer Go plan is a low-cost subscription at $8 per month in the U.S. and was introduced globally in mid-January.
Subscribers to OpenAI’s paid plans…
Ex-Googlers are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data
February 10, 2026
Businesses are generating more video than ever. From years of broadcast archives to thousands of store cameras and countless hours of production footage, most of it just sits unused on servers, unwatched and unanalyzed. This is dark data: a massive, untapped resource that…
The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a pricey but pretty e-ink color tablet with AI features
February 9, 2026
If you primarily want a tablet device to mark up, highlight, and annotate your e-books and documents, and perhaps sometimes scribble some notes, Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft could be worth the hefty investment. For everyone else, it’s probably going to be hard to justify the cost of the 11-inch, $630+ e-ink tablet with a writeable color display.
However, if you were already leaning…
Modern biotech has the tools to edit genes and design drugs, yet thousands of rare diseases remain untreated. According to executives from Insilico Medicine and GenEditBio, the missing ingredient for years has been finding enough smart people to continue the work. AI, they…
The backlash over OpenAI’s decision to retire GPT-4o shows how dangerous AI companions can be
February 9, 2026
OpenAI announced last week that it will retire some older ChatGPT models by February 13. That includes GPT-4o, the model infamous for excessively flattering and affirming users.
For thousands of users protesting the decision online, the retirement of 4o feels akin to losing…
Anthropic releases Opus 4.6 with new ‘agent teams’
February 6, 2026
On Thursday, Anthropic released the latest version of Opus – its most advanced model and a particularly important model for Claude Code. Opus 4.5 was only released last November, and with 4.6, the company has sought to broaden its model’s capabilities and appeal, allowing for a greater variety of uses and customers.
Perhaps the most notable addition to the newest version of Opus is the…
