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Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales

As AI coding tools generate billions of lines of code each month, a new bottleneck is emerging: ensuring that software works as intended. Qodo, a startup building AI agents for code review, testing, and governance, is betting that verification will define the next phase of software development. The New York-headquartered startup has raised a $70 million Series B round led by Qumra Capital…
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Anthropic’s Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing

Whatever the final outcome for Anthropic from its feud with the Department of Defense, the attention it has generated – coupled with the company’s funny Super Bowl ads taking aim at OpenAI and the surging popularity of Claude Code – has made Anthropic more popular with consumers than ever. An examination of billions of anonymized credit card transactions from about 28 million…
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A ‘pound of flesh’ from data centers: one senator’s answer to AI job losses

The signs that AI could lead to mass job displacement are already piling up: Entry-level job postings in the U.S. have sunk 35% since 2023, mass layoffs have swept across Big Tech, and even AI leaders are warning about what’s coming. Backstage at the Axios AI Summit in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said a venture capitalist recently told him he’s writing…
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With Sift, two ex-SpaceX engineers are bringing the software that helped launch rockets to the factory floor

The cry of “atoms, not bits!” – a phrase capturing Silicon Valley’s growing obsession with physical manufacturing over digital products – reached a fever pitch last week with word that Jeff Bezos is putting together a $100 billion fund to roll up and automate factories. But automating factories isn’t purely a hardware problem. It increasingly depends on…
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