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SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket lifted off on its 10th test flight Tuesday evening, hitting two long-sought milestones...
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Bounce, a new technology that adds a critical component to the open social web, launches to the...
Pintarnya, an Indonesian employment platform that goes beyond job matching by offering financial services along with full-time...
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In a new blog post, OpenAI warns against “unauthorized opportunities to gain exposure to OpenAI through a...
Intel officially announced an agreement with President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday afternoon, following Trump’s statement that...
Meta is partnering with Midjourney to license the startup’s AI image and video generation technology, Meta Chief...
The U.S. government plans to take a 10% stake in Intel, President Donald Trump told reporters Friday....
OpenAI has announced plans to open its first office in India, just days after launching a ChatGPT...
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A Florida judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed against embattled HR and payroll provider Deel. And...
A federal appeals court handed SpaceX a win on Tuesday, in a ruling that prevents the National...
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for...
OpenAI announced late Friday that it’s updating its latest model to be “warmer and friendlier.” The company...
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A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into left-leaning advocacy...
Anthropic has announced new capabilities that will allow some of its newest, largest models to end conversations...
Another crypto company is headed for the public markets. This time, it’s Gemini Space Station Inc., the...
Rental car startup Kyte has shut down nearly one year after slashing staff and exiting most of...
The Trump administration continues to meddle with semiconductor giant Intel. The U.S. government is reportedly in discussions...
Two years after launching, social network Bluesky is revising its Community Guidelines and other policies, and asking...
Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI startup, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday...
Rapido, a popular ride-hailing platform in India, has quietly begun beta testing its food delivery service in...
When OpenAI launched GPT-5 last week, the company said the model would simplify the ChatGPT experience. OpenAI...
Demand for AI “companion” applications outside of bigger names, like ChatGPT and Grok, is growing. Of the...
Two months ago, Indian electric motorcycle startup Ultraviolette expanded into 10 European countries. Now, fueled with $21...
Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup that has stayed profitable in a notoriously tough and low-margin market,...
A security researcher said flaws in a carmaker’s online dealership portal exposed the private information and vehicle...
Stanford University has confirmed its admissions policies for fall 2026 will continue considering legacy status, a decision...
Sometimes it’s nice to have a simple app that does one thing well without a lot of...
During a Reddit ask-me-anything session on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and key members of the GPT-5...
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The Browser Company has launched a Pro subscription plan for Dia, its new web browser that heavily...
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Sales automation startup Clay has raised a $100 million Series C at a $3.1 billion valuation in...
Linda Yaccarino’s next role after departing X as CEO will be another chief executive role at eMed...
Indian startup Jeh Aerospace founders Vishal Sanghavi and Venkatesh Mudragalla have had a front row seat to...
Rivian has filed a lawsuit in Ohio to be able to sell its electric vehicles directly to...
Apple has formed a new team to build a ChatGPT-like app, according to according to Bloomberg’s Mark...
SAP announced Friday that it has reached an agreement to acquire recruiting software company SmartRecruiters. In a...
Apple CEO Tim Cook held an hourlong all-hands meeting in which he told employees that the company...
Anthropic has revoked OpenAI’s access to its Claude family of AI models, according to a report in...
CRV has secured $750 million toward the 55-year-old venture firm’s twentieth flagship fund, it announced on Friday....
Google has backed STAN, an Indian social gaming platform that connects gamers with creators, communities, and publishers....
Paying with a handwave once sounded like science fiction, but contactless palm recognition service Amazon One has...
Google lost its appeal of a judge’s court order requiring the tech giant to revamp its app store...
GitHub Copilot, an AI coding tool offered by Microsoft-owned GitHub, has now reached more than 20 million...
Eric Glyman, co-founder and CEO of expense management startup Ramp, announced on Wednesday a fresh $500 million...
American warfighters need jam-proof communications, and the Space Force is planning to spend hundreds of millions to...
Cash App launched a new peer-to-peer payment feature on Tuesday called “Pools” that allows users to pool...
Julius AI, a startup that describes itself as an AI data analyst, announced it has raised a...
Google on Monday announced an update to its Chrome web browser that will introduce AI-generated store reviews...
The massive Las Vegas venue known as Sphere will be screening its first classic movie, “The Wizard...
The Department of Government Efficiency hopes to use a new AI tool to eliminate half of the...
A U.K. law requiring that pornography websites verify the age of their users took effect Friday. The...
Tea, an app that allows women to post anonymous comments about men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday...
Tesla is launching an even-more-limited version of its early robotaxi service in San Francisco this weekend, according...
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Two years after securing $1 billion in commitments from over 20 countries, the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF)...
Google on Thursday is launching a new AI-powered feature called Web Guide for organizing Google Search results....
A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for...
The Trump administration published its much-anticipated AI Action Plan on Wednesday, a document that takes a sharp...
PayPal announced Wednesday it has partnered with global wallet companies to create a platform called PayPal World...
The Florida GOP isn’t the only one profiting from the detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” by...
South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI announced a partnership on Tuesday to supply its AI chip, RNGD,...
Google announced Monday that it’s introducing a new feature that lets iOS users easily switch between work...
Few companies have grown as quickly as Tesla, especially just before and after the company launched the...
Autonomous robotics startup Cartken, known for its four-wheeled robots that deliver food on college campuses and through...
Following a Pro Publica report that Microsoft was using engineers in China to help maintain cloud computing...
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Greptile, an AI-powered code review startup, is in the process of raising a Series A. Sources familiar...
SpaceX employees are more likely to be injured while working at Starbase than any of its other...
While OpenAI has cemented its lead in the U.S., Perplexity is taking a different route — quietly...
Meta appointed Connor Hayes, Meta’s VP of product for generative AI, to become the head of Threads,...
Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey isn’t just vibe-coding new social apps, like Bitchat and Sun...
Elon Musk’s xAI just released its AI companions, which include the goth waifu Ani and the homicidal...
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Lucid Motors is set to roll out a software update on July 30 that will enable hands-free...
Nvidia announced Monday that it’s filing applications to restart sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to...
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Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup that uses AI to generate human-sounding voices. A Meta spokesperson...
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A research institute connected to the United Nations has created two AI-powered avatars designed to teach people...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Friday the company is delaying the release of its open model, which...
Bitcoin achieved a new all-time high of $118,900 on Friday after exceeding its previous record, $113,822, on...
During xAI’s launch of Grok 4 on Wednesday night, Elon Musk said — while livestreaming the event...
With the departure of X CEO Linda Yaccarino, which was announced Wednesday, the company that defined text-first...
Cluely, an AI startup that uses a hidden in-browser window to analyze online conversations, has shot to...
AI-powered coding tools like Cursor, Replit, Claude Code, and Lovable are helping developers write many lines of...
Also Inc., the micromobility startup spun out of Rivian earlier this year, has raised $200 million from...
TikTok owner ByteDance is planning to move U.S. users to a new version of CapCut, its video...
Apple’s head of AI models, Ruoming Pang, is leaving the company to work at Meta, Bloomberg reported...
Instagram Threads is close to catching up to top competitor X in terms of mobile app users,...
On Friday morning, Elon Musk declared, “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when...
Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers —...
The venture capital world has always had a hot-and-cold relationship with the Midwest. Investors rush in during...
Microsoft is closing its operations in Pakistan, marking the end of a 25-year presence in the South...
Earlier this week, San Diego startup Gallant announced $18 million in funding to bring the first FDA-approved...
The European Union on Friday said it will stick to its timeline for implementing its landmark AI...
Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos, has stopped promoting that its upcoming pickup truck will...
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OpenAI wants to make clear that Robinhood’s sale of “OpenAI tokens” will not give everyday consumers equity...
A security vulnerability in a stealthy Android spyware operation called Catwatchful has exposed thousands of its customers,...
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Grammarly announced Tuesday the acquisition of email client Superhuman in a push to build out its AI...
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022....
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With Meta successfully poaching a number of its senior researchers, an OpenAI executive reportedly reassured team members...
Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI. Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that Meta had...
An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire...
The FBI and cybersecurity firms are warning that the prolific hacking group known as Scattered Spider is...
If you’re a founder looking to grow your startup, chances are you’re wrestling with more than just...
The Danish government is working to change copyright law to give its citizens the right to their...
Henrik Werdelin has spent the last 15 years helping entrepreneurs build big brands like Barkbox through his...
Jeff Bezos is apparently trying to capitalize on the recent blow-up between President Donald Trump and Elon...
Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr has raised $100 million in an all-equity Series B round led by...
AI-native startups are rewriting the rules of what early traction looks like — and too often, investors...
The conversational AI market has exploded since ChatGPT was released in November 2022 and is predicted to...
Amazon announced on Tuesday that it is expanding its Same-Day and Next-Day delivery services to over 4,000...
Legal filings submitted earlier this month from lawyers representing OpenAI and Jony Ive’s io reveal new details...
Two U.S. senators have requested that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigate Spotify due to allegations that...
OpenAI has pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer...
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European governments may be reconsidering their use of American technology and services, according to a new report...
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If becoming a spy sounds like an exciting way to live like a le Carré character, let...
Startups live and die by their early hires. And in a world where top talent has options...
When Baiju Bhatt stepped away from his role as Chief Creative Officer at Robinhood last year, only...
Amazon said on Thursday that it would invest about $233 million in its India business to further...
For some tense minutes on Wednesday, X users were surprised to see one of those crypto “airdrop”...
Iran’s largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, said Wednesday that it was hacked and funds have been drained from...
The latest San Francisco startup culture drama happened on Monday night. And it centered around “the most...
One month after the House passed its version of a reconciliation bill, Senate Republicans released their take...
OpenAI and Microsoft may be reaching an inflection point in their relationship, according to a report from...
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While Silicon Valley executives like those from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI are grabbing headlines for trading their...
DNA testing service 23andMe has undergone serious upheaval in recent months, creating concerns for the 15 million...
Meta’s big investment in Scale AI may be giving some of the startup’s customers pause. Reuters reports...
Beleaguered genetic testing company 23andMe announced Friday that it has reached an agreement to sell itself to...
New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from...
At Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 Demo Day on Wednesday, nearly every presenting startup had something to do...
Felicis founder Aydin Senkut is celebrating his 20th year as an institutional early-stage investor by announcing the...
Nnamdi Emelifeonwu was always curious about what work life was like for his colleague Feargus MacDaeid, one...
When Apple unveiled Image Playground last year, the company touted it as a quick and easy way...
Traditional web tools are facing an existential crisis as AI products and tools increasingly eat up attention...
The release of OpenAI’s first open model in years will be delayed until later this summer, CEO...
U.K.-based autonomous vehicle technology company Wayve and Uber plan to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in...
At this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 25), Apple announced a slew of updates to its operating...
Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Alphawave Semi, a U.K.-based semiconductor company focused on high-speed data center connectivity,...
As Apple prepares to unveil iOS 19 at WWDC 2025 on Monday, several rumors have surfaced, including...
As Apple prepares to unveil iOS 19 at WWDC 2025 on Monday, several rumors have surfaced, including...
The High Court of England and Wales says lawyers need to take stronger steps to prevent the...
Indian grocery delivery startup KiranaPro’s recent data loss story has more holes than Swiss cheese, as the...
Narrowing down the 30 most visionary startups of the year to just five finalists was no easy...
A U.S. court denied Apple a stay on a ruling that requires the company to stop charging...
Anysphere, the maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, has raised $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation,...
Anthropic says that it has released a new set of AI models tailored for U.S. national security...
As Apple prepares to unveil iOS 19 at WWDC 2025 on Monday, several rumors have surfaced, including...
Journaling app Rosebud has raised $6 million in seed funding as it seeks to further flesh out...
Windsurf, the popular vibe coding startup that’s reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, said Anthropic significantly reduced its...
Kettering Health, a network with dozens of medical and emergency centers in Ohio, is still working to...
After a while, Danae Shell got tired of hearing the same story over and over again. “Something...
Samsung is closing in on an investment in AI search startup Perplexity that would also see the...
Elon Musk’s interview with CBS Sunday Morning seemed to get off to an awkward start, as reporter...
The NAACP is calling on local officials to halt operations at Colossus, the “supercomputer” facility operated by...
It’s no surprise that many big, left-leaning social media accounts have recently joined Bluesky — but a...
