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Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . February 6, 2026
People without coding backgrounds are discovering that they can build their own custom apps using so-called vibe coding — solutions like Lovable that turn plain-language
AI layoffs or ‘AI-washing’? | TechCrunch
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . February 2, 2026
How many of the companies with recent layoffs are truly adapting their workforces to the efficiencies and challenges of artificial intelligence? And how many of
Zuckerberg teases agentic commerce tools and major AI rollout in 2026
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . January 29, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta users will start to see new AI models and products from the company in a matter of months. “In 2025, we
Gmail is having issues with spam and misclassification
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . January 25, 2026
If your Gmail account doesn’t seem to be working properly today, you’re not alone. The official status dashboard for Google Workspace suggests that the issues
One-time hot insurance tech Ethos poised to be first tech IPO of the year
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . January 21, 2026
Ethos Technologies has priced its initial public offering and the expectation is that it will go public on Thursday, making it one of the first
AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR — and it started with a Reddit post
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . January 17, 2026
Runpod, an AI app hosting platform that launched four years ago, has hit a $120 million annual revenue run rate, founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep
Hands-on with Bee, Amazon’s latest AI wearable
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . January 13, 2026
In early tests with a review unit of Bee, we found the device itself was easy to use. It’s just a press of a button
Governments grapple with the flood of non-consensual nudity on X
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . January 8, 2026
For the past two weeks, X has been flooded with AI-manipulated nude images, created by the Grok AI chatbot. An alarming range of women have
Can a social app fix the ‘terrible devastation’ of social media?
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . January 4, 2026
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp have raised new funding for their social media startup West Co. The startup launched an invite-only
Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch heads to Meta
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . October 11, 2025
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has lost one of its co-founders to Meta. The Wall Street Journal