OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections
A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise…
Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup
SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it…
Travis Kalanick kicks off another round of VC bashing: ‘1% are helpful’
After raising $1.7 billion for his new robotics company Atoms, Travis Kalanick is introspective about the role VCs…
Nigeria has taught entrepreneurship for years. Is it actually converting?
Nigeria has spent nearly two decades embedding entrepreneurship education in higher education. But with 85% of surveyed institutions…

VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push
Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first…
These Kenyan startups raised $500 million before shutting down. Where are the founders now?
Over the past five years, startups across logistics, e-commerce, agriculture, fintech, food delivery, clean energy, AI, and auto…
Nigeria to earn $41 million from MTN’s $406 million dividend payout
The Nigerian government is set to be the second-biggest beneficiary of MTN Nigeria’s ₦545.89 billion ($406.37 million) dividend…

GLM-5.3 hits the API at $1.4/$4.4 per million tokens
After a stunning debut last week with cyber capabilities so advanced they reportedly found a previously undetected vulnerability…

Block’s new Apache 2.0 agent workspace Berd works across models and harnesses, stores conversation history locally
Block, the technology company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that owns Square, Cash App and the…