AI
MongoDB Turned Agent Memory Into Database Plumbing. It Might Actually Help.
MongoDB's May 7 London launch tries to make agents less forgetful and less duct-taped. The pitch is glorified data plumbing, which is exactly why it feels credible.
AI
MongoDB's May 7 London launch tries to make agents less forgetful and less duct-taped. The pitch is glorified data plumbing, which is exactly why it feels credible.
Launch
Huawei crammed ECG, golf maps, diving chops, and week-long battery life into a slim square watch. It is overqualified, Apple-coded, and more convincing than it should be.
Startups
A prediction market startup is now worth $22 billion after its third funding doubling in seven months. The only thing harder to predict than the future is apparently Kalshi's valuation.
Startups
Davis says it can turn months of real-estate feasibility work into days. Slightly insane pitch, oddly grounded founders, and a pre-seed I can picture.
Deep Dive
Robotaxis are finally carrying paying riders at scale. This guide explains the tech, economics, safety fights, and why geofences still run the show.
Big Tech
In February, Musk called Anthropic “misanthropic and evil.” In May, he handed them 220,000 GPUs, cleared them on his evil detector, and signed a receipt.
Review
The Arctis Nova Pro Omni is brilliant, excessive, and oddly practical: one pricey headset for your PC, console, phone, and your inability to pick a lane.
Startups
Corvera thinks CPG brands do not need more dashboards. They need fewer humans trapped between inboxes, ERPs, and Amazon settlement reports.
AI
Collibra’s AI Command Center promises real-time oversight for agentic AI. The branding is surveillance chic, but the enterprise logic is harder to mock than I’d like.
Layoffs
I like Coinbase. I want Coinbase to win. Which is why watching it dress a plain old layoff in AI-native cosplay is so irritating.
Startups
Pacific Hybreed thinks shellfish farming starts with better seed, not louder software. The $1M round is tiny, earnest, and weirdly convincing.
Fintech
Stripe’s latest Treasury and card launches show stablecoins becoming business banking infrastructure, with cashback and custody hiding the crypto.