Estuary, a data platform addressing the infrastructure challenges that slow AI adoption, has raised $17 million in Series A funding. M13 led the investment round, with participation from Firstmark and Operator Partners. The funding will support Estuary’s expansion as it works to simplify how organizations handle data movement. The company’s platform promises dependable pipelines, predictable

When a company known for job listings suddenly starts talking about voice-AI infrastructure, you know something big’s brewing. Apna.co, one of India’s fastest-growing career platforms, has tossed its hat into the artificial intelligence ring with the launch of BlueMachines.ai — an enterprise-grade voice-AI system built to handle multilingual, high-volume conversations for businesses. That’s not a

It’s not every day you see a startup throw down the gauntlet at giants like WPP and Ogilvy, but that’s exactly what Pepper just did. The content-tech company, once known as Pepper Content, has shed its old skin and rebranded as simply Pepper—declaring itself an “anti-WPP,” AI-native marketing services company. The move marks a radical

There’s something oddly refreshing about having a space where you can chat without bumping into the usual censors or awkward moderation walls. That’s where Soulfun AI’s NSFW Chat comes in. Unlike many “AI chat” tools that promise the world but then slap you with restrictions, Soulfun leans into the freedom part. If you’ve ever felt

Uncensored AI video generation is one of those ideas that sounds like hype until you actually see it in motion. Soulfun’s AI Video Generator leans directly into that territory—it doesn’t just promise flashy visuals but gives you the freedom to actually create videos without being boxed in by filters or censorship. That freedom alone makes

When you hear “NSFW image generator,” you probably think of clunky, half-baked outputs or over-policed platforms that censor everything the second you get creative. Soulfun doesn’t play that game. It gives you an actual playground where you can experiment with fantasies, tweak visuals, and push boundaries without the usual brick walls. The whole vibe is

A new startup called Flint wants to end the era of static web pages by building sites that literally run themselves. In its latest reveal, the company announced a $5 million seed round backed by Accel and Sheryl Sandberg’s venture fund to fund a platform that creates and optimizes web pages without human help. The

Pinterest has introduced a new control feature that lets users decide how much AI-generated content appears in their feeds. The update, dubbed the “AI tuner,” allows people to reduce or increase machine-generated posts in popular categories like beauty, art, fashion, and home décor, as reported in The Verge’s breakdown of the feature. But the catch?

Monday got off to a bad start for Amazon Web Services users served by the company’s US-EAST-1 region, when a DNS problem rendered the DynamoDB API unreliable, with consequences for many AWS services and customers. Although the root cause of the incident apparently affected a single API in just one of many AWS cloud regions,

Visual Studio Code 1.105, the latest release of Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio Code editor, introduces several new AI coding features, including the ability to resolve merge conflicts with AI assistance, the ability to resume recent chat sessions, and the ability to install Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from the MCP marketplace. Announced October 9, VS