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Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), the venture division of private equity firm Bain Capital, has raised a new, $1.6 billion fund, which is 14% larger than its previous $1.4 billion fund the firm announced three years ago.

Apple announced its rugged Apple Watch Ultra 4 last Wednesday, and I’ve been testing it since then and asking myself: Should people buy it? 

The new wearable’s controversial audio features aren’t available yet, but there are plenty of upgrades here.

NVIDIA, Google and Emerald AI have launched a new coalition called the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), the companies announced. The aim is to promote more flexible AI data centers that won’t be disruptive to electricity grids or require massive, taxpayer-funded upgrades. In exchange, the coalition wants utility operators to connect their data centers faster.

Comp AI, a cybersecurity and compliance startup, announced that it has raised a $34 million Series A round on Thursday. The round was led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures. 

The group has repeatedly criticized the company’s handling of AI-generated material.

X will now allow users to trade from their timelines. The Elon Musk-owned social network on Wednesday launched a feature called Cashtag that will let U.S. users on X place stock tradeslude Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase

TULSA, Okla. — The future of drone technology is taking flight in Tulsa this week, with hundreds of students from around the world putting their skills, and their aircraft, to the test.

Anthropic has launched Claude Docs, a new feature that lets the AI assistant/chatbot create documents for you. As part of the company’s efforts to make it easier to access Claude’s many capabilities — more on this later — you’ll be able to ask it to make a document for you right within your conversation. You…

Making games can be a brutal business, and another studio may have fallen victim to those struggles. Heart Machine Founder Alx Preston posted on LinkedIn today that the maker of Hyper Light Drifter has cut most of its team: