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Codeium is starting the New Year by making coding more accessible with Windsurf Cascade. Their AI-powered tool is empowering a new generation of coders with:  🚀 Ease of Use: Start coding with no prior experience. 👥 AI Collaboration: Work alongside AI for guidance and support.  🔓 Creativity Unlocked: Build anything from games to apps; if you can dream it, Windsurf can help create  it. Jeremy Caplan has the latest in Fast Company here 👉 https://lnkd.in/g3u8PnsU CC: Varun Mohan, Douglas Chen, Anshul Ramachandran, Jeff Wang #AI #TechInnovation #Codeium

Just because it's the holidays doesn’t mean scammers are on vacation. Our friends at BrandShield uncovered this year’s top holiday shopping scams, from shoes to beauty products to tech gadgets, and Vicky Nguyen from The Today Show has the scoop on it all. Check out Vicky’s segment for NBC News to learn more. p.s. you might see one of our own share her story about how she fell victim to an online shopping scam 👀🎁 https://lnkd.in/dHeSGubs

100,000 whole-body MRI scans and counting! Prenuvo is rewriting the rules of healthcare, proactively helping spot potential health issues before they start. Plus, their new #WarriorsProgram is live, offering discounted scans for firefighters, police officers, military personnel, and veterans. Learn more in this exclusive story by Nate Berg at Fast Company: https://lnkd.in/e_9ukDKN

Congratulations to our friends at Brigit who recently announced a major milestone for their company - they’ve been acquired by Upbound Group! These two companies are coming together to bring cutting-edge financial resources to those who have been underserved by financial institutions in the past. Ryan Lawler has more on the news in Axios here: https://lnkd.in/gbz_5HZ3 CC: Zuben Mathews, Hamel Kothari, Fara Remtulla, George Yury Revutsky, Christy Center, Maggie Philbin, Vijay Chattha, Kayla Abbassi, Brook Klingel, Raven Raines, Grace Wharton #Acquisition #Fintech #M&A #FinancialInclusion

The future of AI came into focus last night 🚀 Encord and CRV hosted an intimate dinner, bringing together friends from media, VC, and across the industry to explore what’s next for AI in 2025. Topics ranged from multimodal magic to autonomous agents and the redefinition of reasoning—sparking lively debates and bold ideas. Huge thanks to Encord and CRV for curating such a dynamic evening and to the amazing guests who made it so engaging. CC: Ulrik Stig Hansen, Eric Landau, Anna Khan, Vijay Chattha, Riley Munks, Natasha Mascarenhas, Anu Hariharan, ChenLi Wang, Walter Thompson, Sara B., Piyush Prahladka, Vasumathi Raman, Ivan Poupyrev, Dr., Dasha Shunina, Saeed Ezzati, Kalpana Seshadrinathan, Menglong Ye, Sri Muppidi

Big things are happening at NeuBird.ai 🚀 Hawkeye, the AI-powered digital engineer for ITOps, is officially stepping out of early access trials and into action. With $22.5M in new funding led by M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund—with participation from Mayfield Fund, StepStone Group, and Prosperity7 Ventures—Hawkeye is helping enterprises tackle their IT challenges head-on. Marina Temkin, CFA at TechCrunch has the scoop: https://lnkd.in/eCUZpNp5 CC: Gou Rao, Vinod Jayaraman, Shilpi Srivastava, Vijay Chattha, Kayla Abbassi, John Vollmer, Statyn Coppage, Raven Raines #digitalteammate #GenAI #ITOps

Baby biometric devices promise peace of mind but often deliver the opposite – fueling anxiety and stress for parents. This is why experts like Harbor’s Director of Nursing and Bye Bye Baby Biometrics founding member Kelly Brown strongly caution against their use. Read Kelly’s experience as a mom and nurse and why she’s opposed to devices like these in Today's Parent: https://lnkd.in/gdNCM2AS

Some relationships just don’t work out. BlockJoy’s BlockVisor 2.0 is here to help blockchain operators cut ties with costly, unreliable cloud infrastructure. It’s not just about saving money—it’s about taking back control with speed, transparency, and true decentralization. Ready to see how Larry did it? It’s time to divorce AWS: https://lnkd.in/eTDu7P_9 #AWSreInvent #Web3Innovation #BlockchainSolutions

Codeium made Inc.'s Best in Business 2024 list for one reason: real impact 🌟 From launching The Windsurf Editor, the first agentic AI-powered code editor, to growing to over 800K users, Codeium is continuing to push the bounds of software development as we know it. Congrats to the team! CC: Varun Mohan, Douglas Chen, Anshul Ramachandran, Jeff Wang https://lnkd.in/gMbdVY-T #AI #TechInnovation #Codeium

Since the Roman era, we've relied on the same outdated methods to manage infrastructure—routine checks, manual assessments, and reactive fixes. But the world has changed, and so must our approach. With the launch of Stateful OS, our partner BrightAI is bringing real-time intelligence to critical infrastructure. 250,000 AI endpoints across 25,000 sites are providing blue-collar workforces with the insights they need to spot issues before they escalate, ensuring smarter, more resilient systems. Full story by Rebecca Szkutak at TechCrunch: https://lnkd.in/exs2DJD3