An AI startup founder says he’s planning a ‘March for Billionaires’ in protest of California’s wealth tax

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‘Industry’ season 4 captures tech fraud better than any show on TV right now

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Apple is working to make CarPlay compatible with AI chatbots like ChatGPT

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From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads

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It just got easier for Claude to check in on your WordPress site

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Prince Andrew advisor pitched Jeffrey Epstein on investing in EV startups like Lucid Motors

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Google- and Microsoft-backed Terradot acquires carbon-removal competitor

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Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all

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How Elon Musk is rewriting the rules on founder power

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Reddit says it’s looking for more acquisitions in adtech and elsewhere

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Here’s how Roblox’s age checks work

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Senator, who has repeatedly warned about secret US government surveillance, sounds new alarm over ‘CIA activities’

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The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a pricey but pretty e-ink color tablet with AI features

EU says TikTok must disable ‘addictive’ features like infinite scroll, fix its recommendation engine

China’s Salt Typhoon hackers broke into Norwegian companies

Spotify’s new feature lets you explore the story behind the song you’re listening to

How AI is helping solve the labor issue in treating rare diseases

The backlash over OpenAI’s decision to retire GPT-4o shows how dangerous AI companions can be

Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users

Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools

Reddit looks to AI search as its next big opportunity

AWS revenue continues to soar as cloud demand remains high

Amazon and Google are winning the AI capex race — but what’s the prize?

The Washington Post is retreating from Silicon Valley when it matters most

a16z VC wants founders to stop stressing over insane ARR numbers

OpenAI launches new agentic coding model only minutes after Anthropic drops its own

One of Europe’s largest universities knocked offline for days after cyberattack

Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers

NASA astronauts can now bring their phones with them on their mission to the moon

OpenAI launches a way for enterprises to build and manage AI agents

Anthropic releases Opus 4.6 with new ‘agent teams’

Secondary sales shift from founder windfalls to employee-retention tools

Meta tests a stand-alone app for its AI-generated ‘Vibes’ videos

Pacific Fusion finds a cheaper way to make its fusion reactor work

Trump’s critical mineral reserve is an admission that the future is electric

Data breach at govtech giant Conduent balloons, affecting millions more Americans

Fundamental raises $255M Series A with a new take on big data analysis

Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers

ElevenLabs CEO: Voice is the next interface for AI

Google’s subscriptions rise in Q4 as YouTube pulls $60B in yearly revenue

Spotify ventures into physical book sales, adds new audiobook features

Sam Altman got exceptionally testy over Claude Super Bowl ads

As it preps Specs for the masses, Snap’s Q4 shows revenue growth but fewer daily users

Mundi Ventures closes on €750M for Kembara, its largest deep tech and climate fund

Stripe alumni raise €30M Series A for Duna, backed by Stripe and Adyen execs

Alphabet won’t talk about the Google-Apple AI deal, even to investors

Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users

The Wayback Machine debuts a new plug-in designed to fix the internet’s broken links problem

Elon Musk’s SpaceX company town is getting a police department