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Lucid Bots raises $20M to keep up with demand for its window-washing drones

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A former Thiel fellow’s startup just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters

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Amazon just bought a startup making kid-size humanoid robots

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With $3.5B in fresh capital, Kleiner Perkins is going all in on AI

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New Mexico just handed Meta its first courtroom defeat over child safety, and the rest of the country is watching

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Lululemon bets Epoch Biodesign can eat its shorts, literally

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OpenAI’s Sora was the creepiest app on your phone — now it’s shutting down

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Accel, Prosus pick six ‘off-the-map’ startups for inaugural India cohort

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Kentucky woman rejects $26M offer to turn her farm into a data center

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Anthropic hands Claude Code more control, but keeps it on a leash

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Spotify tests new tool to stop AI slop from being attributed to real artists

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Databricks bought two startups to underpin its new AI security product

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Crusoe makes big battery buys for its data centers

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Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history

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OpenAI’s plans to make ChatGPT more like Amazon aren’t going so well

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Google TV’s new Gemini features keep fans updated on sports teams and more

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OpenAI adds open source tools to help developers build for teen safety

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Talat’s AI meeting notes stay on your machine, not in the cloud

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BRK Capital raises $14.5M (so far) to invest in Black founders

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BKR Capital raises $14.5M (so far) to invest in Black founders

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Crunchyroll confirms data breach after hacker claims unauthorized access

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Doss raises $55M for AI inventory management that plugs into ERP

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Apple Music partners with Ticketmaster to power its concert discovery feature

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Meet the former Apple designer building a new AI interface at Hark

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Epic Games cuts 1,000 jobs, says Fortnite engagement is down

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Flighty’s new update gives you real-time alerts about airport disturbances

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Ads are coming to Apple Maps, as Apple expands its business offerings

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Roku’s $3 Howdy subscription service launches on Prime Video

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FCC bans import of new consumer routers made overseas, citing security risks

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Zoox brings its robotaxis to Austin and Miami

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TikTok ads are about to get a tad more disruptive

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Spotify’s new SongDNA feature maps how your favorite songs are connected

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Snapchat’s new ‘AI Clips’ Lens format turns photos into five-second videos

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Pinterest launches a new feature to promote a Pin

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Mirage raises $75M to continue building models for its AI video-editing app Captions

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Cauldron Ferm has turned microbes into nonstop assembly lines

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Agile Robots becomes the latest robotics company to partner with Google DeepMind

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Ultrahuman ramps up US push with Ring Pro as Oura tightens its grip

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Insight Partners scrubs investment post about Delve amid ‘fake compliance’ allegations

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Insight Partners scrubs Delve investment post amid ‘fake compliance’ allegations

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Emil Michael, now a senior Pentagon official, says he’ll never forgive Uber investors who ousted him and Kalanick

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Bengaluru food delivery startup Swish raises $38M, its third round in 18 months

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Despite bitter rivalry, Kalshi, Polymarket CEOs back $35M predictions markets VC fund

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Air Street becomes one of the largest solo VCs in Europe with $232M fund

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Apple Maps may be about to get ads

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Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones

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Zipline snaps up another $200M to fuel its drone delivery expansion

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Bernie Sanders’ AI ‘gotcha’ video flops, but the memes are great

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Russian authorities block paywall removal site Archive.today

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Bipartisan bill seeks to ban sports betting on Kalshi and Polymarket

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