Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the “low nine figures” — Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, is making its next big move. The company behind the assistant …
Paper, which allows designers to connect directly with production code and the AI agents that create it, raised a $34M Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ — Paper, a design platform for teams using AI, locked up a $34 million Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ, CEO Stephen Haney tells Axios Pro exclusively.
The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for allegedly providing CBP with a “duress” passcode that wiped the contents of his GrapheneOS phone — Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS
Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion — Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT's voice mode, rival Anthropic is making …
AMD unveils the Venice-X CPU, with 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache, 96 cores, and up to 5.15 GHz clock speeds, available in H2 2027 — It's the same cache amount and core count as Genoa-X, but with far faster cores. … AMD's Venice-X CPU is launching in the second half of 2027, the company revealed Thursday at its Advancing AI event.
Source: Stripe revenue jumped by a third to $6.8B in 2025, its fastest revenue growth since 2021, with free cash flow up 52% to $3.2B — Stripe is coming off a banner year thanks to booming growth in the AI sector, where the company processes payments for big AI labs and small developers alike.
Yope, a social network that has ~15M registered users for its “micro communities” and no algorithms, ads, or public content, raised $12.3M seed led by Northzone — As social media has evolved from a place to connect with friends into large-scale entertainment platforms …