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Krish Ramineni is CEO & Co-founder at Fireflies.ai, an AI teammate for meetings used by people at 75% of Fortune 500 companies. gettyA decade ago, starting a software company was expensive. You needed engineers, cloud hosting, infrastructure, design and months of development just to ship something mediocre. Most founders never even got past the prototype…

Ben Blanquera – VP – AI and Sustainability, Rackspace Technology. gettyIn my role as vice-president of sustainability and AI at Rackspace Technology, I’m seeing organizations invest in enterprise artificial intelligence, expecting massive productivity gains, particularly in business process returns. But as companies rush deployments, they often encounter significant roadblocks unrelated to coding or data as…

Amazon’s Prime Day is off to a solid start, but the main news may not be how much shoppers are shelling out. It may be what they’re buying. U.S. online spending on the first day of Amazon’s four-day Prime Day event jumped 5.3% to $8.3 billion across merchants from a year ago…

In Brief Posted: 5:38 PM PDT · June 26, 2026 Image Credits:Spencer Platt / Getty Images Elon Musk is eyeing an acquisition of Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers last year developing hardware for fast data center communications. The potential acquisition, which was revealed in a Federal Trade Commission filing…

ToplineOpenAI is now leaning toward delaying its public debut from later this year to next year, unnamed sources told The New York Times, as Elon Musk’s SpaceX stock tumbles after its record IPO and the public tech market slumps more broadly. WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 3: CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman talks to reporters following…

silicon wafersgettyChina’s focus on technology self-reliance has minted a new billionaire as investors pile into the shares of semiconductor component maker Chongqing Genori Technology. The firm’s shares have soared almost 1,200% from its initial public offering price within days of its Wednesday market debut in Shanghai, leading Chairman and CEO Wang Bing to amass a…

Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark, maker of open source data room software, accused Corgi of stealing its software and passing it off as its own. Corgi denies this. “No code was used from Papermark,” the company tells TechCrunch. But there were reasons why…

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AI agents are becoming more sophisticated. They are evolving from answering questions to autonomously executing multi-step complex tasks. But before these agents can be trusted to book trips or conduct financial analysis on behalf of users, model providers and the startups building such agents want to ensure that they perform reliably across a vast range…

Kitty litter and food for my 18-year-old cat, Caroline, usually weighs more than the rest of our groceries put together. Having those items delivered right to our door makes sense, and during the Covid pandemic, it was sometimes a necessity. Tens of millions of other pet owners discovered the same …