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Vibe-coding sensation Replit has hit another funding milestone. The company announced Wednesday that it raised a $400 million Series D at a $9 billion valuation, led by previous investor Georgian Partners. Other participating investors include G Squared, Prysm Capital, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Accenture Ventures, Okta Ventures, and Databricks Ventures. Founder and CEO Amjad Masad also said in a post on X that backers include angel investors Shaquille O’Neal and Jared Leto. This follows the $3 billion valuation the startup hit in September, when it raised a $250 million round. At that time, Replit said it was…
March 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it has introduced a unified platform designed to streamline the analysis of reports on drug side effects.* The new platform, called FDA Adverse Event MonitoringSystem (AEMS), would include adverse-event reports submitted tothe U.S. health regulator for drugs, biologics, vaccines,cosmetics and animal food on a single, streamlined dashboard. * AEMS will contain real-time adverse-event reports for allFDA-regulated products by the end of May. * The FDA will publish reports in real time, rather thanquarterly, potentially reducing the Freedom of Information Actrequests to the agency for unreleased adverse-event reports.…
WordPress’s publishing software can now run entirely in the web browser, the organization behind the open source publishing software announced on Wednesday. Through a new service called my.WordPress.net, the WordPress software lets users set up a site and begin publishing without signing up, setting up a hosting plan, or registering a domain. Instead, the new solution leverages the same technology that powers WordPress demos and makes it available as a permanent, personal publishing platform. There is a big caveat to running WordPress this way: The sites set up on my.WordPress.net are private by default and not accessible from the public…
VILLA RICA, Ga. (AP) — A 12-year-old girl was taken to a hospital and died days after she collapsed in the street following a fistfight near a school bus stop in her Georgia neighborhood, according to police.The death of sixth grader Jada West is being investigated by police in suburban Villa Rica, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of Atlanta. Sgt. Spencer Crawford, a police spokesman, said Wednesday that investigators are reviewing evidence, including cellphone video of the fight, and are awaiting autopsy results. He said police plan to meet later this week with prosecutors, who will ultimately decide whether…
There’s a lot happening in the news right now. So it’s possible you’re not aware that the Oscars are happening this Sunday.It’s also possible that you wouldn’t be paying attention to the Oscars no matter what kind of news cycle we are in. The cultural footprint of what used to be a giant television event celebrating movies has been shrinking for years, for pretty obvious reasons: We are watching less TV, and spending less time going to the movies.But this year’s awards show does seem like it’s happening at a particularly newsworthy time for Hollywood, which has already been going…
Mind Robotics, an industrial robotics lab spun out of the electric vehicle maker Rivian, has raised $500 million in a Series A funding round co-led by venture firms Accel and Andreessen Horowitz. The financing, announced Wednesday, follows a $115 million seed round that was led by Eclipse in late 2025, bringing Mind Robotics’ total fundraising to $615 million in the few months since its founding. This round brings the startup’s valuation to around $2 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news. Mind Robotics was created by Rivian CEO and founder RJ Scaringe. It was spun out…
BOSTON (AP) — A coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging a Trump administration policy that requires higher education institutions to collect data showing they aren’t considering race in admissions.President Donald Trump ordered the new policy in August after he raised concerns that colleges and universities were using personal statements and other proxies to consider race, which he views as illegal discrimination. In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled against the use of affirmative action in admissions but said colleges may still consider how race has shaped students’ lives if applicants share that information in their…
Staffers in the US Senate are now allowed to use three major AI chatbots for official business. Loading audio narration… In a memo sent to Senate offices on Monday and obtained by Business Insider, the Senate Sergeant at Arms’ Chief Information Officer approved the use of three major AI chatbots using Senate data: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot.The existence of the memo was first reported by The New York Times.The memo specifically highlighted Copilot, noting that it’s integrated into the Microsoft 365 tools that Senate staff already use.The memo said that the tool may be used for “drafting…
When news broke Tuesday morning that Meta bought Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, it may have left some people scratching their heads. What on earth would Meta — an ad-supported company — want with a social network where the users are bots? Bots, after all, are not the target audience of brand marketers and advertisers. Meta isn’t saying much. Its only official comment was a brief statement that the Moltbook team was joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, which would open up “new ways for AI agents to work with people and businesses.” Reading between the lines, this was an…
When news broke Tuesday morning that Meta bought Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, it may have left some people scratching their heads. What on earth would Meta — an ad-supported company — want with a social network where the users are bots? Bots, after all, are not the target audience of brand marketers and advertisers. Meta isn’t saying much. Its only official comment was a brief statement that the Moltbook team was joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, which would open up “new ways for AI agents to work with people and businesses.” Reading between the lines, this was an…