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WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
Developers may not realize they are sharing their users' location data with advertisers, per new research.
A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.
Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.
On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.
AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step towards decoupling apps from models.
June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.

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