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Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confidential startup information with rival Sidechat

SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs

A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed

China is catching up to Elon Musk’s reusable rockets

Disney+ is considering a free streaming tier, report says

Dumb Co dared me to trade my iPhone for a hacked flip phone

Oratomic raises $300M to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits

Netflix could be planning ‘always-on’ live TV channels

EU threatens Meta with fines over addictive features on Facebook and Instagram

Florida ransomware negotiator convicted for helping ransomware gang extort US companies

Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

After Apple, India’s smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo JV

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OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter

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Don’t want to invest in Elon Musk? Two new ETFs explicitly exclude him

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Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s No. 2 role

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OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6

An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise

OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing

Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic

Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?

Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1

Charles Hudson shares the common mistakes he’s seen after investing in 500+ startups

New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial

Slate Auto teams up with Crayola to color its EV truck

FanDuel sent a video from star athlete Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling problem

Mercor is in talks for a $20B valuation

Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI

Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia

How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?

Instagram users: Here’s how to stop Meta’s AI from using your photos

Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September

Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created

Block reaches $45M settlement with 46 states over Cash App fraud probe

Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI

Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits

Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist

Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund

Truecaller clashes with India’s telecom regulator over anti-spam rules

Despite ‘misgivings,’ judge approves Elon Musk’s $1.5M SEC settlement

Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B

Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders

Google’s deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic

With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing

Autonomous drone delivery startup Manna plots major US expansion

SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’

‘Slow-cial’ app Roost forces you to slow down to the speed of a carrier pigeon

This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment