Tombot’s emotional support robot dog, Jennie, was a surprise hit at CES, leading to over 5,000 pre-orders. That success directly fueled a $6.1 million Series A round and has the company planning for a massive $100 million raise in 2027.
The Flatpak team is looking at a radical solution for its persistent graphics driver issues: borrowing GPU virtualization tech from virtual machines. The idea is to use the Venus driver and virglrenderer to completely isolate apps from the host’s GPU drivers. It’s a complex workaround, but it could
AMD has announced its next-generation Ryzen AI 400 series laptop processors, set to arrive in Q1 2026. The chips offer modest clock speed improvements over last year’s models and pack powerful NPUs to handle Windows Copilot+ features and creative apps.
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.
