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Capital One acquires Brex for a steep discount to its peak valuation, but early believers are laughing all the way to the bank

Voice AI engine and OpenAI partner LiveKit hits $1B valuation

Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts

Microsoft 365 hit by outage, preventing access to emails and files

Ring is adding a new content verification feature to videos

Google DeepMind CEO is ‘surprised’ OpenAI is rushing forward with ads in ChatGPT

Humans& thinks coordination is the next frontier for AI, and they’re building a model to prove it

Substack launches a TV app

Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin with no human safety driver

Meta seeks to limit evidence in child safety case

Google now offers free SAT practice exams, powered by Gemini

Former CEO of celeb fav gym Dogpound launches $5M fund to back wellness companies

Struggling fusion power company General Fusion to go public via $1B reverse merger

Waymo continues robotaxi ramp up with Miami service now open to public

Ireland proposes new law allowing police to use spyware

Google’s AI Mode can now tap into your Gmail and Photos to provide tailored responses

Here’s what you should know about the US TikTok deal

Under Armour says it’s ‘aware’ of data breach claims after 72M customer records were posted online

Google snags team behind AI voice startup Hume AI

From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing

Anthropic has to keep revising its technical interview test as Claude improves

Blue Origin schedules third New Glenn launch for late February, but not to the moon

Spotify brings AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the US and Canada

Snapchat gives parents new insights into teens’ screen time and friends

Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference — and it’s paying off

Tiger Global, Microsoft to fully exit Walmart-backed PhonePe via its IPO

Tiger Global and Microsoft to fully exit Walmart-backed PhonePe via its IPO

Former Google trio is building an interactive AI-powered learning app for kids

Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable

Sources: Project SGLang spins out as RadixArk with $400M valuation as inference market explodes

A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025

X copies Bluesky with a ‘Starterpacks’ feature that helps you find who to follow

Todoist’s app now lets you add tasks to your to-do list by speaking to its AI

Apple plans to make Siri an AI chatbot, report says

Anthropic revises Claude’s ‘Constitution,’ and hints at chatbot consciousness

Apps for boycotting American products surge to the top of the Danish App Store

Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference

Blue Origin’s satellite internet network TeraWave will move data at 6 Tbps

Zipline charts drone delivery expansion with $600M in new funding

OpenEvidence hits $12B valuation, with new round led by Thrive, DST

Threads rolls out ads to all users worldwide

YouTube TV’s multiview is getting a huge upgrade, letting viewers mix and match channels

We’re not nostalgic for 2016 — we’re nostalgic for the internet before all the slop

OpenAI’s former sales leader joins VC firm Acrew: OpenAI taught her where startups can build a ‘moat’

YouTube will soon let creators make Shorts with their own AI likeness

OpenAI aims to ship its first device in 2026, and it could be earbuds

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 tickets now on sale: Lowest rates all year

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries

NYT Games’ Scrabble-like game Crossplay is a dream come true