Crustdata announced today it has closed a $6 million seed funding round led by Y Combinator and A Capital. General Catalyst, SV Angel, and Phosphor Capital also participated in the round. The company, which graduated from Y Combinator’s Fall 2024 cohort, has already proven its business model works. In just seven months, Crustdata scaled revenue

Snapchat just dropped something pretty wild — a tool that lets your imagination quite literally take over your screen. The new Imagine Lens turns simple text prompts into full-blown AI-generated images, and it’s now available to users in the U.S. If you’ve ever wanted to see yourself as a cyberpunk samurai or floating through space

Spam calls are no joke anymore—especially when they sound eerily human. In India, where nearly every phone buzz feels suspicious, startups like Equal AI are reimagining how we deal with the chaos. As reported by Forbes India, these young innovators are letting AI pick up your calls, chat with the stranger, and tell you whether

Python 3.14 is here, and it’s bursting with goodies! Plus, Rust is making it easier to redistribute Python apps, PDM is simplifying Python package management, and Java is challenging Python for developing AI applications. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld The best new features and fixes in Python 3.14Welcome to the biggest new Python

Vercel’s React framework for building full-stack web applications gets an upgrade in Next.js 16, with more explicit caching and AI-based debugging, among other features. Announced October 21, Next.js 16 now is generally available, with installation instructions available at nextjs.org. Highlights include Cache Components, a new set of features designed to make caching both more explicit

This week, the impossible happened—again. Amazon Web Services, the backbone of the digital economy and the world’s largest cloud provider, suffered a large-scale outage. If you work in IT or depend on cloud services, you didn’t need a news alert to know something was wrong. Productivity ground to a halt, websites failed to load, business

Over the next few years, agentic AI is expected to bring not only rapid technological breakthroughs, but a societal transformation, redefining how we live, work and interact with the world. And this shift is happening quickly. “By 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling

Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI chatbot, seems to be a brilliant, all-seeing savant, able to locate the most difficult-to-find facts on command. Now integrated into a wide swath of the company’s products — including the Microsoft 365 apps, Windows, Edge, Bing, and more — Copilot can be a godsend for those who create business documents, from

The US government is reportedly considering new export controls that could block a wide range of products made with US software from being shipped to China, in what could become one of Washington’s most sweeping trade measures to date. If implemented, the move could disrupt global technology supply chains and heighten uncertainty for multinational manufacturers

Google Quantum AI has demonstrated what it describes as a verifiable quantum advantage — running a new algorithm on quantum hardware that outperforms classical supercomputers by a factor of 13,000. The breakthrough, announced on Wednesday, marks the first time a quantum computer has executed a verifiable algorithm with real-world applications, potentially accelerating enterprise workloads in