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AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round

Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs

OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO

The 11 standout startups from YC’s Demo Day, according to VCs

Almost half of U.S. singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says

Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips

Rivian owners sue over false promises on self-driving features

Rivian owners file lawsuit alleging false promises on self-driving features

Mivo’s new app takes a mindful approach to managing screen time

AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid

The smartphone era created an attention crisis. Slowtech is fixing it

Texas government data breach allowed hackers to steal 3 million driver’s licenses and passports

‘Queer Eye’s’ life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone

Apple opens up App Store to new competition in Brazil

MapTap, a daily geography game, is my new Wordle

General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation

A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight

Spotify’s reserved ticket sales to music superfans are now going live

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Adobe adds its AI assistant to Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign

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Pixi’s new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences

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Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones

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NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX

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How to turn off AI in your Google Docs

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AI is hurting Apple in more ways than one: it may force iPhone price increases

Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming — now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI

Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors

After unveiling ridiculously expensive AR glasses, Snap’s stock takes a dive

NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI

FTC lawsuit reveals how subscription scam networks evade app store enforcement

World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.

Anthropic becomes first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition

Cybercriminals allegedly hacked tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls used by major companies all over the world

Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms

World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names

Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web

Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows

Two Stanford grads raise $11M to build a noninvasive wearable for hormone tracking

Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker

PayPal Ventures shutters as company restructuring continues

The slowtech revolution is here to kill your phone addiction and rescue your attention span

Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.

Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI

SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants

Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom

DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation

Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027

Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’

Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests

Apple plans to change its Hide My Email privacy feature that could make it less effective

SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon