Vimeo starts layoffs after acquisition by Bending Spoons

Vimeo is laying off staff across its global operations. This news follows the video platform’s recent acquisition by the Italian technology conglomerate Bending Spoons. The purchase, completed last year, was an all-cash deal valued at one point three eight billion…

OpenAI is coming for those sweet enterprise dollars in 2026

OpenAI has reorganized its leadership and selected a familiar figure to head its push into selling AI to business customers. The company aims to catch up to its rivals in 2026. The company appointed Barret Zoph to lead its efforts…

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts

Nearly two years ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicted that AI would soon replace knowledge work—the white-collar jobs held by lawyers, investment bankers, librarians, accountants, IT professionals, and others. Despite the significant progress made by foundation models, this transformation in…

Microsoft 365 hit by outage, preventing access to emails and files

An ongoing Microsoft outage is preventing enterprise customers from accessing their email inboxes, files, meetings, and other Microsoft cloud services. The technology giant stated around 2:30 p.m. ET that the outage was caused by a portion of service infrastructure in…

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts.

Nearly two years ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicted that AI would replace knowledge work, the white-collar jobs held by lawyers, investment bankers, librarians, accountants, IT professionals, and others. Despite the enormous progress made by foundation models, this transformation in…

Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM

The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular tool into a VC-backed startup, Inferact, raising 150 million dollars in seed funding at an 800 million dollar valuation. The funding round was co-led by…

Voice AI engine and OpenAI partner LiveKit hits $1B valuation

LiveKit, a developer of infrastructure software for real-time AI voice and video applications, has announced the raise of one hundred million dollars in funding at a one billion dollar valuation. This round was led by Index Ventures and included participation…