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Disney signs deal with OpenAI to allow Sora to generate AI videos featuring its characters

On Me raises $6M to shake up the gift card industry

TIME names ‘Architects of AI’ its Person of the Year

Security flaws in Freedom Chat app exposed users’ phone numbers and PINs

Opera wants you to pay $20 a month to use its AI-powered browser Neon

Interest in Spoor’s bird-monitoring AI software is soaring

Eclipse Energy’s microbes can turn idle oil wells into hydrogen factories

Runware raises $50M Series A to help make image, video generation easier for developers

Port raises $100M at $800M valuation to take on Spotify’s Backstage

Harness hits $5.5B valuation with $240M raise to automate AI’s ‘after-code’ gap

Baby delivered in Waymo continues proud tradition of not making it to the hospital

Google’s answer to the AI arms race — promote the guy behind its data center tech

State attorneys general warn Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, and other AI giants to fix ‘delusional’ outputs

Nvidia is reportedly testing tracking software as chip-smuggling rumors swirl

You can now share live video with emergency services on Android

CEO of South Korean retail giant Coupang resigns after massive data breach

Spotify tests more personalized, AI-powered ‘Prompted Playlists’

Overview Energy wants to beam energy from space to existing solar farms

OSHA investigating new crane accident at SpaceX’s Starbase facility

Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI

YouTube TV to launch genre-based subscription plans in 2026

Reddit is testing verification badges

Google is testing AI-powered article overviews on select publications’ Google News pages

Amazon changes how copyright protection is applied to Kindle Direct’s self-published e-books

ChatGPT is Apple’s most downloaded app of 2025 in the US

Amazon now offers same-day delivery of perishable groceries in 2,300 US cities

Oboe raises $16 million from a16z for its AI-powered course-generation platform

Google launches managed MCP servers that let AI agents simply plug into its tools

Unacademy’s founder says startup is now worth less than $500M, confirms M&A talks

Figma launches new AI-powered object removal and image extension

AI startup Tavus founder says users talk to its AI Santa ‘for hours’ per day

Petco takes down Vetco website after exposing customers’ personal information

Google launches sub-$5 AI Plus plan in India to compete with ChatGPT Go

Instagram’s new ‘Your Algorithm’ tool gives you more control over the Reels you see

Adobe brings Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat features to ChatGPT

Amazon to invest additional $35B in India by 2030, taking total planned spending to $75B

Google invests in Fervo’s $462M round to unlock even more geothermal energy

Meesho’s $606M IPO pops as enthusiasm for India’s e-commerce startups rises

Fertility startup Inito wants to use AI-designed antibodies to expand at-home health tests

CoreWeave CEO defends AI circular deals as ‘working together’

Unconventional AI confirms its massive $475M seed round

Hinge CEO steps down to launch Overtone, an AI dating app

Fal nabs $140M in fresh funding led by Sequoia, tripling valuation to $4.5B

Cashew Research is going after the $90B market research industry with AI

SpaceX reportedly planning 2026 IPO with $1.5T valuation target

B Capital founding partner Kabir Narang leaves to launch new investment platform

Why Cursor’s CEO believes OpenAI, Anthropic competition won’t crush his startup

Rivian is building its own AI assistant

Three in 10 US teens use AI chatbots every day, but safety concerns are growing

Slack CEO Denise Dresser to join OpenAI as chief revenue officer