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Substack launches a built-in recording studio

Facebook Marketplace now lets Meta AI respond to buyers’ messages

Tinder tries to lure people back to online dating with IRL events, virtual speed dating

Atlassian follows Block’s footsteps and cuts staff in the name of AI

Lucid Motors shows off robotaxi concept called ‘Lunar’

Humanoid robotics maker Sunday reaches $1.15B valuation to build household robots

Humanoid maker Sunday reaches $1.15 billion valuation to build household robots

Webflow buys AI content-generation platform Vidoso to bolster its marketing suite

Bumble to launch an AI dating assistant, ‘Bee’

Law enforcement shuts down botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked routers

A writer is suing Grammarly for turning her and other authors into ‘AI editors’ without consent

Tesla becomes a utility in the UK, setting up showdown with Octopus Energy

Gumloop lands $50M from Benchmark to turn every employee into an AI agent builder

Alexa+ gets a new ‘adults only’ personality option that curses but won’t get into NSFW content

Wonderful raises $150M Series B at $2B valuation

Rivian R2 launch: Here’s what $57,990 gets you

Uber, Wayve, and Nissan plan to launch a robotaxi service in Tokyo this year

Disney+ is rolling out its TikTok-like ‘Verts’ short-form video feed

Honda scraps 3 EVs planned for the US, blaming tariffs and Chinese competition

Google is using old news reports and AI to predict flash floods

Google Maps is getting an AI ‘Ask Maps’ feature and upgraded ‘immersive’ navigation

Group14 opens factory to produce battery materials for flash charging EVs

When startups become a family business

Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch

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AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood put out the worst song I’ve ever heard

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Nuro is testing its autonomous vehicle tech on Tokyo’s streets

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Google Play is adding new paid and PC games, game trials, community posts, and more

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Ford’s new AI assistant will help fleet owners know if seatbelts are being used

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Ride-hailing inDrive acquires Pakistan’s Krave Mart to bolster grocery delivery

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Zendesk acquires agentic customer service startup Forethought

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India neobank Fi winds down banking services on its platform

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Netflix may have paid $600 million for Ben Affleck’s AI startup

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Lovable says it added $100M in revenue last month alone, with just 146 employees

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Quince hits $10B valuation with giant $500M round led by Iconiq

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Alternative app store AltStore PAL joins the fediverse

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Drivers in fatal Ford BlueCruise crashes were likely distracted before impact

Replit snags $9B valuation 6 months after hitting $3B

Pro-Iran hacktivist group says it is behind attack on medical tech giant Stryker

Breakout Ventures raises $114M fund to back AI science startups

Almost 40 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are

VC mega-funds are back with General Catalyst, Spark rumored to be raising billions

Poppi founder on TikTok, Super Bowl ads, and her return to Shark Tank

Hacker broke into FBI and compromised Epstein files, report says

WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net

Rivian spin-out Mind Robotics raises $500M for industrial AI-powered robots

EV startup Harbinger reveals a smaller work truck with electric and hybrid variants

Meta’s Moltbook deal points to a future built around AI agents

WhatsApp is launching parent-linked accounts for pre-teens

Amazon expands a program that lets customers shop from other retailers’ sites

Meta rolls out new scam detection tools to Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger