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ByteDance’s new AI video generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, comes to CapCut

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Why hiring the weirdos works

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A major hacking tool has leaked online, putting millions of iPhones at risk. Here’s what you need to know.

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Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst, YC to build an AI search engine for security video systems

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Cohere launches an open source voice model specifically for transcription

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WhatsApp can now draft AI-generated responses based on your conversations

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A ‘pound of flesh’ from data centers: one senator’s answer to AI job losses

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Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation

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A little-known Croatian startup is coming for the robotaxi market with help from Uber

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The least surprising chapter of the Manus story is what’s happening right now

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Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India

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Silicon Valley’s two biggest dramas have intersected: LiteLLM and Delve

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The AI skills gap is here, says AI company, and power users are pulling ahead

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Convicted spyware chief hints that Greece’s government was behind dozens of phone hacks

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Who’s driving Waymo’s self-driving cars? Sometimes, the police.

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Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

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Melania Trump wants a robot to homeschool your child

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Riding the GLP-1 boom, VITL lands $7.5M to overhaul cash-pay clinic prescribing

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Jury finds Meta and Google negligent in landmark social media addiction trial

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Meta is cutting several hundred jobs

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Apple overhauls its app developer platform with 100 new metrics, more tools

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Bernie Sanders and AOC propose a ban on data center construction

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DeleteMe acquires social media security tool Block Party

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Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model

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Russia arrests alleged owner of cybercrime forum LeakBase, report says

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Waymo relies on firefighters and police to bail out stuck robotaxis

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Reddit takes on the bots with new ‘human verification’ requirements for fishy behavior

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How soap opera-TikTok hybrids became a billion-dollar business

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Harvey confirms $11B valuation: Sequoia triples down

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Granola raises $125M, hits $1.5B valuation as it expands from meeting notetaker to enterprise AI app

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Meta launches new initiative to support entrepreneurship, drive AI adoption

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Arbor Energy just landed a billion-dollar order to bring rocket turbine tech to the power grid

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Meta turns to AI to make shopping easier on Instagram and Facebook

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Sony and Honda give up on their joint EV project

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Elon Musk pauses changes to X’s creator revenue-sharing program after backlash

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With Sift, two ex-SpaceX engineers are bringing the software that helped launch rockets to the factory floor

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Harbinger’s next product will be hybrid emergency vehicles

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Arinna raises $4M seed round to solve the space power problem

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After pivoting, Y Combinator grad Glimpse raises $35M led by a16z

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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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