Early-stage VC firm Antler is going all-in on a high-volume investment strategy, making over 400 bets in 2025. With a new $160 million U.S. fund, it plans to hit roughly 500 investments this year, betting that spreading capital wide in the AI era is the best path to returns.
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical MongoDB vulnerability dubbed “MongoBleed” to steal sensitive data from server memory. The flaw, which requires no authentication, affects a wide range of versions and has a functional exploit tool with a GUI already in use.
Acer is targeting a new hybrid user at CES 2026: the AI-power user who also games. Its new Predator and Nitro laptops come with Copilot+ certification and NPUs for on-device AI tasks, all while packing serious gaming specs like RTX 5070 GPUs.
Flutterwave has acquired open banking infrastructure firm Mono in a move to deepen its alternative payments stack. The deal highlights a strategic shift towards bank-based payments in Africa, even as open banking struggles for awareness in the US.
Microsoft has set a hard stop for several major products in 2026. Support for Windows 11 24H2 and Office 2021 ends on October 13th, 2026, forcing users to upgrade. The niche Windows 11 SE for education is also being discontinued.
Researchers at Google Quantum AI used their Willow processor to demonstrate that a strange property called quantum contextuality likely contributes to quantum computing’s potential power. The experiment ran an algorithm on up to 105 qubits, showing a more efficient path than a classical computer, th
The traditional path to CEO is being dismantled by AI. As routine entry-level work vanishes, companies are losing their passive leadership training ground and must now cultivate executives more deliberately from a wider talent pool.
The open-source RADV driver now supports new performance counters for AMD’s upcoming RDNA4 graphics architecture. This gives developers on Linux a crucial head start for profiling and optimization ahead of the hardware’s release.
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra and its siblings might launch later than usual in 2026. A reliable leaker points to a February 25th Unpacked event, with sales starting in early March. In surprising news, Samsung may also freeze flagship prices again despite rising costs.
Researchers have found that ChatGPT can exhibit patterns similar to human anxiety when given violent or traumatic prompts. To counter this, they successfully used mindfulness-style instructions to stabilize the AI’s output. The findings highlight new challenges for AI safety in sensitive application
