In the long-running saga that is Cerebras Systems’s IPO, the finish line is finally in sight. The AI chipmaker said on Monday that it is preparing to sell 28 million shares at $115 to $125 a share. This would raise $3.5 billion and give it a $26.6 billion market cap at the high end. That…
Image model releases are driving growth for AI mobile apps, generating 6.5x more downloads than traditional model updates, according to a new report from app intelligence provider Appfigures. This marks a shift from earlier days, when the release of new models powering the conversational experiences drove more demand, alongside the new features like a voice…
Web search and content retrieval have quietly become the most critical infrastructure decisions in AI agent development. An agent without reliable access to live web data is effectively operating on stale knowledge — a hard limitation for any production deployment handling research, lead enrichment, competitive intelligence, or real-time monitoring. In 2026, the ecosystem of search…
Nearly a week after the makers of the popular web server management software cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) alerted users of a critical flaw in its software, hackers are still targeting thousands of websites that use the vulnerable software. As of Monday there are more than 550,000 potentially vulnerable servers running cPanel, a number that…
When will we take AI doomers critically? That’s a key subtext of Elon Musk’s try and shut down OpenAI’s for-profit AI enterprise. His attorneys argue that the group was arrange as a charity centered on AI security, and misplaced its method in pursuit of lucre. To show that, they cite outdated emails and statements from…
When do we take AI doomers seriously? That’s a key subtext of Elon Musk’s attempt to shut down OpenAI’s for-profit AI business. His attorneys argue that the organization was set up as a charity focused on AI safety, and lost its way in pursuit of lucre. To prove that, they cite old emails and statements…
On Monday, Anthropic announced a joint venture focusing on deploying enterprise AI services. Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs will be founding partners in the new venture, which is backed by a group of VCs, hedge funds, and private equity firms, including Apollo Global Management, General Atlantic, GIC, Leonard Green, and Sequoia Capital. The…
Almost all of the 20 U.S. state government-run health insurance marketplaces shared residents’ application information with advertising and tech giants, including Google, LinkedIn, Meta, and Snap, according to a new investigation by Bloomberg. The report drives home the privacy problems created by pixel-sized trackers, which allow website owners to collect information about their visitors, often…
DoorDash on Monday added new AI-powered tools that let merchants speed up onboarding, edit photos to make dishes look better, and create websites based on their app listings. The onboarding tool works similarly to the one Amazon launched in 2024. Merchants can point the tool to their website, from which it will automatically fetch information…
The tech industry has spent the last decade asking whether self-driving cars need lidar sensors, cameras, or all of the above. Lidar company Ouster says it has a new answer: put them both in the same sensor. On Monday, the San Francisco-based company announced a new lineup of lidar sensors it calls “Rev8,” all of…
