Pinterest to lay off 15% of staff to redirect resources to AI
Pinterest says it’s “reallocating resources to AI-focused roles and teams that drive AI adoption and execution” and “prioritizing AI‑powered products and capabilities.”
January 2026
Luminar receives a larger $33 million bid for its lidar business
A new leading bidder has appeared in the Luminar bankruptcy case: Redmond, Washington-based MicroVision, which beat out Quantum Computing Inc.’s bid by $5 million.
China’s Moonshot releases a new open-source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent
The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens.
Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint Ventures
Flora’s node-based design tool is being used by companies like Pentagram and Lionsgate.
This Humanoid Is Ready to Bring You a Toothbrush
Fauna, a new startup, is betting that humanoid robots will find success as hospitality workers, research assistants, and entertainers.
Kira Upgrades + Litera and AL Webinar – March 3rd
Contract AI stalwart, Kira, which has long been part of Litera, is getting a bunch of upgrades. Meanwhile, here’s one for your diary: a new …
How Automated NLP Pipelines Cut Oncology Data Abstraction from Weeks to Hours
Abhijit Nayak, Senior Data Scientist at Cognizant and IEEE conference speaker, discusses building production-grade information extraction systems for cancer research and why domain expertise matters more than model size. A…
CLM Summize Bags $50m, Claims 100% ARR Growth For 5 Years
Summize, a CLM company that started back in 2018 in Manchester, has raised $50m. The news comes as a number of other legal tech businesses …
Uber launches an ‘AV Labs’ division to gather driving data for robotaxi partners
Uber is not developing its own robotaxis again; instead it plans to collect and offer data. It’s a bet that more volume will help autonomous vehicle partners solve the weirdest…
EU vs X: Grok’s Explicit-Image Mess Has Officially Crossed the Line
The EU has now singled X out – and this time it’s not political, misinformation based or some nebulous free speech argument. It has to do with porn: Specifically, there’s this…