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Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

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Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable

Tesla spending skyrockets as Cybercab, Semi, Megapack production timeline slips

Social media addiction lawsuit against Meta is dropped

SoundCloud acquires decentralized music platform Nina Protocol months after its shutdown

How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Science Corporation’s vision-restoring chip wins EU approval

Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads

Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains why Anthropic is winning (and it’s not the model)

Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI

Google is making it easier to switch from iPhone to Android

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous

Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI

OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B

If you pay a hacker’s ransom, chances are that they’ll come back for more

Cascade raises $3.5M to help construction firms find and win projects

The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari

WhatsApp adds Apple CarPlay and Android Auto upgrades, iPad sign-ups, and more

Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US

Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era

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Synthesia’s AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching

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The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter

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Dimension Capital’s $800M third fund shows the intersection of science and compute is booming

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Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination

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These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models

OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models

Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents

AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app

Bucking EV slowdown, Sila raises $300M to expand battery materials factory

Einride bets $38M on EV charging as it scales electric trucking

Apple teams up with Klarna to launch a lease-to-own program for iPhones, iPads, and Macs

Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035

Tesla spins up robotaxi pilots in Orlando and Tampa ahead of Q2 earnings

Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro

Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts

Threads rolls out parental supervision tools

US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft

Light made a flip phone — it’s colorful and it’s cheap

After TikTok, Snap settles social media addiction case

AI music generator Suno breach affects 55M users, per Have I Been Pwned

What to know about the landmark Warner Bros. Discovery sale

UK government scraps plans for digital ID cards after millions of Brits opposed

The Xteink X4 Pro could be the tiny e-reader of your dreams

Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated

Bluecore Energy raises $10M to build portable nuclear reactors on barges

Gritt exits stealth with $32 million for robots to build solar plants — then, everything else

Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved

Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation