Console raises $6.2M from Thrive to free IT teams from mundane tasks with AI
Console's mission is to help IT teams reduce mundane, repetitive tasks, thereby freeing up time for help desk professionals to work on more strategic and sophisticated projects.
Read moreFormer DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg co-leads $15.5M Series A for AI video ad platform
DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg’s venture fund WndrCo co-led a $15.5 million Series A round for Creatify, an AI video ad platform. Creatify’s AdMax platform uses AI to quickly generate dozens of video advertisements, which are geared toward social media marketing — AdMax analyzes high-performing social video campaigns on apps like
Read moreMicrosoft Bing gets a free Sora-powered AI video generator
Microsoft Bing announced Monday that it is introducing the Bing Video Creator to its app, which uses OpenAI's Sora model to let users generate videos from text prompts.
Read moreSnowflake to acquire database startup Crunchy Data
Cloud data platform Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Crunchy Data, a Postgres database partner, late this afternoon.
Read more7 Codility alternatives for developer and technical assessments in 2025
Last year, 78% of tech leaders reported their struggles with finding and hiring skilled candidates for the right roles. A “messy” hiring process can be frustrating, especially if you’re short on time and resources to make the right offer. As the race for top-tier developers gets even faster, teams are
Read moreDigg’s founders explain how they’re building a site for humans in the AI era
The rebooted version of social site Digg aims to bring back the spirit of the old web.
Read moreChatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feeds
Character.AI's new multimedia features include AvatarFX, plus Scenes and Streams, which allow users to create videos featuring their characters and then share them on a new social feed.
Read moreFalse witnesses
Fermat’s little theorem says that if p is a prime and a is not a multiple of p, then ap−1 = 1 (mod p). The contrapositive of Fermat’s little theorem says if ap−1 ≠ 1 (mod p) then either p is not prime or a is a multiple of p. The contrapositive is used to test whether a number is prime. Pick a
Read moreSalesforce buys Moonhub, a startup building AI tools for hiring
Salesforce has quietly snapped up Moonhub, a startup building AI to vet and hire talent. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. In a post on Moonhub’s website on Monday, the company said that its entire Menlo Park, California-based team will be joining Salesforce, an early investor in Moonhub. “As
Read moreChime, last valued at $25B, aims for $11B in upcoming IPO
Chime, whose pending IPO is expected to be one of 2025’s blockbuster hits, issued a share price range on Monday of $24 to $26. That’s an up-to-$11.2-billion market cap. At the mid-range, the company will raise $800 million for itself and a handful of investors, including European VC powerhouse Cathay
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