Modal Labs, a startup specializing in AI inference infrastructure, is in the process of raising a new round at a valuation of about $2.5 billion, according to four people with knowledge of the deal. Should the deal close at these terms, the funding round would more than double the company’s valuation of $1.1 billion announced less than five months ago. …

The Global Procurement and Supply Chain Summit 2026 brought together senior sourcing and supply chain leaders from Pakistan’s textile industry to examine how evolving regulatory frameworks in Europe are altering procurement decisions and export competitiveness. The event, held at the Mövenpick Hotel, drew participation from prominent mills, technology firms, vendor networks, and trade bodies. Speakers described a growing shift in …

OpenAI has disbanded a team that focused on — as the company itself described — ensuring that its AI systems are “safe, trustworthy, and consistently aligned with human values.” At the same time, the team’s former leader has been given a new role as the company’s “chief futurist.” OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch that the team’s members have now been assigned …

(Ironwood Studios Image) The Seattle-area independent production studio behind the hit video game Pacific Drive raised $4 million in seed funding. The round, led by Lifelike Capital, is aimed toward financing Redmond, Wash.-based Ironwood Studios’ next game. Pacific Drive, released in Feb. 2024 for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC and published by Kepler Interactive, is a “driving survival” game set in …

Cleveland’s Terminal Tower, a landmark of the city’s skyline since 1930. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb responded Wednesday to a GeekWire guest column in which Seattle tech veteran and angel investor Charles Fitzgerald warned the Pacific Northwest tech hub not to repeat the mistakes that led to the Ohio city’s decades-long decline. The real lesson, …

Less than a week after Valve admitted that the current shortage (and growing prices) of RAM were affecting its hardware plans, the Steam Deck is completely sold out. The Steam Deck has gone in and out of stock in the past, but as Kotaku notes, the timing does raise the question whether Valve’s RAM issues could also be impacting its …

Apple has been promising a new-and-improved, cutting-edge, AI-powered Siri since it first unveiled Apple Intelligence in 2024. Over about a year and a half since then, the release date for this new era of Siri has been continuously pushed back. According to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, we’ll likely have to wait even longer. While the new Siri …

Uber Eats announced a new AI feature, “Cart Assistant,” on Wednesday designed to fill customers’ grocery carts faster and easier. The beta version is now available in the app.​ To use the new chatbot, users search for a grocery store in the Uber Eats app and tap the purple Cart Assistant icon on the store’s page to begin shopping.  Customers …

Enterprise AI is shifting fast from chatbots that answer questions to systems that actually do the work across an organization. But who will own the AI layer that powers all of it?  Glean, which started as an enterprise search product, has evolved into what it calls an “AI work assistant,” aiming to sit underneath other AI experiences, connecting to internal systems, …

Microsoft has rolled out fixes for security vulnerabilities in Windows and Office, which the company says are being actively abused by hackers to break into people’s computers. The exploits are one-click attacks, meaning that a hacker can plant malware or gain access to a victim’s computer with minimal user interaction. At least two flaws can be exploited by tricking someone …

ExpressVPN is back on sale again, and its two-year plans are up to 81 percent off right now. You can get the Advanced tier for $88 for 28 months. This is marked down from the $392 that this time frame normally costs. On a per-month basis, it works out to roughly $3.14 for the promo period. We’ve consistently liked ExpressVPN …

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