Startups raise money in stages to match risk with progress. Early on, there’s more uncertainty, so checks are smaller and terms are simpler. As traction improves, investors write bigger checks on clearer milestones, rounds. The labels pre-seed, seed, Series A, B, C and beyond, are simply shorthand for how

Albania just made headlines. The government has appointed an AI avatar, Diella, as a virtual cabinet minister in charge of public procurement. The goal is ambitious: eliminate corruption, speed up tenders, increase transparency. What is Diella and the promise Introduced in January 2025 as a virtual assistant on Albania’s

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If you’ve been hearing “RAG” tossed around in tech meetings, investor decks, or even client conversations I’ll break down what Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is, why it matters, and how you can apply it without getting lost in tech jargon. What is RAG in plain terms RAG, is like

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Apple has just revealed the AirPods Pro 3, and among its headline features is Live Translation - a real‐time translator built into the AirPods + iPhone combination. Live Translation lets users wear the AirPods and speak naturally, while the other party’s speech is translated into your preferred language through

Apple’s latest Xcode 26 quietly gained a powerful co-pilot the "Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4" and that matters for anyone building software on the Apple stack. Developers can now sign into a Claude account inside Xcode and tap coding intelligence for writing, explaining, refactoring and even making

What just happened between OpenAi and Oracle and why it matters? OpenAI has reportedly signed one of the largest cloud contracts in history - a roughly $300 billion agreement to purchase compute from Oracle over about five years, beginning in 2027. If you’re keeping score, that’s around $60