Juan Pablo Tejela, CEO and co-founder of Metricool, is a software engineer and technology entrepreneur who has led the company since 2014, helping develop it into a comprehensive platform for managing and measuring digital content. Before launching Metricool, he spent nearly nine years at Optimyth Software, where his responsibilities included product management, application development, user…
SkinBit has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to expand a technology platform designed to make full-body skin imaging more accessible and give patients a consistent record of how their skin changes over time. The round includes investments from Boost VC, Cleo Capital, Manna Ventures and Profluent Capital, alongside Lyft co-founder Logan Green and nine…
Meta has shipped Muse Code, its first coding agent, in a beta release alongside Muse Spark 1.2, a new version of its flagship model that the company says was co-trained with the agent for tighter integration. Muse Code is a terminal agent that installs with a single command and takes on complete software engineering tasks,…
Wordsmith AI has secured a $14 million extension to its Series B financing as companies increasingly explore whether artificial intelligence can help their internal legal teams handle work that would traditionally be sent to outside counsel. The new investment was led by Intact Private Capital, with participation from existing backers Highland Europe and Index Ventures….
Anthropic launched inference hooks on August 5, 2026, a beta feature for Claude Enterprise that routes every employee prompt through the organization’s own security server for an allow-or-deny verdict before the model ever sees it. The system, described in Anthropic’s announcement, extends the kind of inline data loss prevention that security teams already run on…
Houston Methodist researchers have published what they describe as the first peer-reviewed evidence that ambient AI in the operating room is associated with a measurable increase in surgical case volume: a 7% rise, or roughly 25 additional cases per month, in a high-acuity cardiothoracic suite after the system deployed Apella’s computer-vision platform. The study, published…
Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist and one of the central figures in modern AI infrastructure, is leaving the company after nearly 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a startup whose stated goal is to automate the experimental loops of scientific research itself. The departure was announced on August 5, 2026 as part of a broader…
The rise of AI in education has created real excitement around personalized learning, instant feedback, and increased engagement. While the increasing access to information has undeniable value, this factor alone has never been the goal of education. If learning becomes increasingly frictionless, what will happen to curiosity, persistence, and reflection? Education has always been about…
Last year, Absa, one of the largest banks in Africa, needed 120 days to move a new financial crime detection model from build to production. While that was close to the industry average at the time, that same bank today can deploy a new model in 15 days, even with the same regulatory environment, transaction…
Anthropic confirmed on August 5, 2026 that it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, the first time the AI lab has publicly acknowledged the effort. The confirmation came in a company statement to Business Insider alongside a job listing for a Silicon Engineer that Anthropic posted to its own…