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Enterprise service management startup Serval Inc. announced today it has raised $150 million in new funding at a $3 billion valuation to bring its automation agents to more departments beyond information technology. Serval offers a service management platform where staff describe a workflow in plain language and artificial intelligence agents write the automation, then use it to resolve employee requests as they arrive. Older IT service management products, according to the company, mostly just track tickets. Founded in 2024, Serval started out on the IT help desk, and customers have since pulled the software into human resources, finance and legal…

A for-sale sign on a home sold through Zillow Offers, the company’s home-flipping business, which Zillow shut down in 2021. The company has agreed to pay $212.5 million to settle an investor lawsuit over its statements about the business. (Zillow Photo) Zillow will pay $212.5 million to settle a shareholder class action lawsuit over its handling of Zillow Offers, the home-flipping business it shut down in 2021. The lawsuit alleged that Zillow executives painted an overly positive picture of Zillow Offers in the months before the shutdown, without disclosing how poorly the company was able to predict home prices. That…

Jio Platforms soared 21% in India’s biggest-ever market debut. Jio Platforms officially made history. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s telecom and digital ecosystem raised over $3 billion in India’s largest-ever initial public offering- with shares surging 21% on their Mumbai stock market debut. Bids exceeded available shares by more than 22 times, catapulting Jio’s market capitalization above $130 billion and making it India’s second-most valuable publicly traded company. Jio had disrupted Indian telecommunications by handing out free 4G data and driving legacy competitors out of business. And now with over 540 million subscribers, Jio commands the country’s digital infrastructure. Yet investors don’t…

It feels like the skies above our AI-frenzied world have darkened in the past month. Employees at Anthropic and Google started quitting, citing fears that the AI was spiraling out of control. After a string of agents started hacking websites, researchers used AI to discover vulnerabilities in critical systems, leading to large swaths of the web going dark last week and giving rise to a scary term: Black October. At the same time, as it continued to ramp up AI spending, Microsoft offered buyouts to 60,000 employees — over a quarter of its workforce — and economists once again warned…

Reading about complicated subjects can get a little dry, especially when diagrams and textbook explanations leave you scratching your head. Google wants to make that experience more fun and engaging with Immersive Explorations, a new Gemini feature that turns complex topics into interactive visual experiences. You can explore everything from ancient trade routes to jet engines, uncovering details layer by layer. Dive into new topics with immersive explorations in Gemini.Whether it’s tracing trade routes on the Silk Road, peering inside a jet engine, or studying the physics of lightning, each scene unfolds into interactive layers with guided explanations that let…

For centuries, infrastructure has evolved alongside technology. New materials and engineering techniques enabled taller buildings, longer bridges, and larger cities. Computing and digital technologies later transformed how infrastructure was designed, monitored, and operated.Now, the pace of change is accelerating, and challenges are arriving simultaneously. Climate change is increasing pressure on water, energy, and other resources. Artificial intelligence is beginning to transform engineering and design, and its energy needs, along with aging grid infrastructure, is creating significant challenges, as well as new opportunities. In addition, geopolitical complexity is exposing vulnerabilities in global supply chains, and demand for infrastructure is rising, particularly…

Glare is another issue with conventional, low-brightness OLED laptops that the MacBook Pro improves. When deeper blacks are rendered on the screen, it often results in harsher reflections. Sometimes it can get so bad, it feels like you’re looking into a mirror. The brightness alone on the MacBook Pro goes a long way toward overpowering glare and reflections, but Apple is also using what it claims is a “state-of-the-art” anti-reflective coating. Almost every laptop screen uses some kind antireflective coating, so one can hope that Apple’s “state-of-the-art” coating is at least on par with those, but I can attest that…

When preparing for a presentation, most people run through slides at their desk, perhaps talking to their screen and making updates here and there. But what if you could walk and talk to your slides and make changes as you move? Could you find a way to rehearse on the go, one slide at a time, using an AI system capable of actually helping?

With all the fuss about Apple finally releasing a touchscreen MacBook Pro, you may have forgotten about the new model’s other key display technology: OLED, or what Apple calls PROLED XDR. It’s typical of Apple to change a standard tech term to a cringy marketing-focused name, but in this case, the “PRO” designation appears to be justified.  The new MacBook Pros are squarely aimed at photographers, artists and video editors who can justify the high price for a high-quality touch display. To appeal to those folks, Apple didn’t just integrate a touch feature and OLED display and call it a day. Rather,…

Altera Corp. today announced Agilex 2X, a portfolio of field-programmable gate arrays and system-on-chip devices aimed at artificial intelligence infrastructure, robotics, communications and intelligent edge systems, pairing new hardware architecture with an agentic software strategy designed to accelerate development. The first family, Agilex 27, targets applications that demand high throughput and bandwidth. Altera claims a 1.8-times improvement in performance per watt over Agilex 7, alongside a new on-chip data network and support for next-generation connectivity. Software support is available now in Quartus Prime 26.3, but Agilex 27 engineering samples are expected in the second half of 2027. QuartusIQ, the company’s…