Despite the lingering perception that no one really uses Copilot, Microsoft said on Wednesday that the number of users and engagement is growing.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Google Cloud surpasses $20B but says growth was capacity-constrained
Google Cloud topped $20B in quarterly revenue for the first time, fueled by surging demand for AI. But capacity constraints mean it could have grown even faster.
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Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats
Think Discord chats, but with AI characters in addition to humans.
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Firestorm Labs raises $82M to take drone factories into the field
A defense startup just raised $82 million to put drone factories inside shipping containers and bring manufacturing to the front lines.
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BMW i Ventures has a new $300M fund and AI is riding shotgun
BMW i Ventures is interested in startups working on agentic AI and physical AI, as well as industrial software, advanced materials, and manufacturing and supply chain technologies.
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Google Translate now lets you practice pronunciation
The feature is rolling out in the U.S. and India with support for English, Spanish, and Hindi.
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Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public
Divine, a Vine reboot backed by Jack Dorsey’s nonprofit, revives six-second looping videos.
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Coby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100 million to train its models for war. We visited its bootcamp.
We visited Scout AI's training ground where it's working on AI agents that give individual soldiers control of fleets of autonomous vehicles.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2026
How one venture firm is investing in an increasingly fragmented world
Geopolitical turmoil has made venture investing challenging, leading Kompas VC to carve out a niche in startups focused on the physical world.
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At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship
It's a story Musk has told before -- in interviews and to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk -- but Tuesday was the first time he said it under oath.
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BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables
The startup specializes in "non-invasive" "mind-reading" tech—a kind of neural data collection that, its CEO hopes, will have all sorts of consumer applications.
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Red Hat’s OpenClaw maintainer just made enterprise Claw deployments a lot safer
Tank OS puts OpenClaw AI agents into a container that let's it run reliably and more safely, especially for those running fleets of them.
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Otter’s new feature lets users search across their enterprise tools
Otter is also releasing a new Windows app that can capture meeting notes without joining one
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Monday, April 27, 2026
Drizzle on top: a new high-end dog food brand is coming for the 1%
Golden Child is launching with two "five-star" products: a fresh frozen meal system and, more intriguingly, a "drizzle." It has also raised $37 million in funding.
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India’s Snabbit closes $56M round as investor interest in on-demand home services heats up
Snabbit now processes over 40,000 daily jobs and has cut costs sharply as it expands across cities and services.
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