Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools

The startup — with backing from Accel — is building a financial layer that handles the authentication and micro-payments required for AI agents.

Reddit looks to AI search as its next big opportunity

Reddit says its search business, including AI answers, is an “enormous” opportunity.

AWS revenue continues to soar as cloud demand remains high 

AWS recorded its best quarter, in terms of revenue growth, in 13 quarters in Q4 2025 as AI drives AWS adoption.

Canva now lets ChatGPT create designs that match your brand design and logo

With a new Canva update, your ChatGPT designs can now match your brand’s look, pulling in the right colours, fonts and logos without you having to tweak or redesign anything manually.
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Amazon and Google are winning the AI capex race — but what’s the prize?

In 2026, Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capex. Google is just behind at $175 billion to $185 billion. It’s a lot of money!

Musk’s Xs Merge, Apple Acquires Q AI, Google’s Record Haul, ElevenLabs Nabs $500 Million, $100 Million For Abovitz’ AI

X Merges X AI And Space X, Apple Acquires Q AI, Synthbee, Raises $100 billion, Amazon Invests in OpenAI, Amazon invests in OpenAI, And The Super Bowl of AI Commercials.

How Micro-Voting Could Give Politics A Needed Upgrade

Democracy was designed for a world of carrier pigeons. Micro-voting, biometric identity and decoupled governance could finally upgrade the signal-to-noise ratio.

OpenAI launches new agentic coding model only minutes after Anthropic drops its own

The new model is build to accelerate the capabilities of Codex, the agentic coding tool OpenAI launched earlier this week.

Cerebras Pockets $1 Billion To Challenge Nvidia In AI With ‘20X Faster’ Chip

Hello Nvidia. Here comes Cerebras, the new darling of AI compute, with a $10 billion OpenAI contract and a new $1 billion in a series H funding round.

Elon Musk’s Orbital Data Centers Face Huge Challenges

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the new inductees to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 3D-printed housing and more.