Base44, the vibe coding platform that Wix acquired for $80 million just one year ago — when the company was barely six months old and had a team of eight — has started rolling out its own AI model to support its users in creating apps with natural language. The move comes as the discussion…
Nearly every vehicle on the market today is offered with some type of cloud-based subscription services.©2026 Michael Harley/Schnell Auto, Inc.Your next car may send you a monthly billing reminder—nagging you for a dozen other fees you didn’t know you’d signed up for. The industry’s quiet pivot toward subscriptions and software‑locked features is changing what it…
Microsoft’s internal AI transformation offers a valuable lesson for every organization: adding AI tools is only the beginning.Adobe StockThe biggest mistake leaders can make with AI is to treat it like another software rollout. That was one of the clearest messages from Bosch Connected World 2026 in Berlin, where Katy George, Corporate Vice President of…
In Brief Posted: 1:55 PM PDT · June 29, 2026 Image Credits:Brian Ach / Getty Images for TechCrunch Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that the AI coding startup he founded raised a sizable Series A. The company, 8090 Labs, closed a $135 million…
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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…





