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16 of the most interesting startups from YC W26 Demo Day

Google Translate’s real-time headphone translations feature expands to iOS and more countries

OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPT’s erotic mode

Data centers get ready — the Senate wants to see your power bills

Defense startup Shield AI lands $12.7B valuation, up 140%, after US Air Force deal

Apple made strides with iOS 26 security, but leaked hacking tools still leave millions exposed to spyware attacks

Google is launching Search Live globally

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

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

Why hiring the weirdos works

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

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

Cohere launches an open source voice model specifically for transcription

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

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

Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Melania Trump wants a robot to homeschool your child

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

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

Meta is cutting several hundred jobs

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

Bernie Sanders and AOC propose a ban on data center construction

DeleteMe acquires social media security tool Block Party

Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model

Russia arrests alleged owner of cybercrime forum LeakBase, report says

Waymo relies on firefighters and police to bail out stuck robotaxis

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

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

Harvey confirms $11B valuation: Sequoia triples down

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

Meta launches new initiative to support entrepreneurship, drive AI adoption

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

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

Sony and Honda give up on their joint EV project

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

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

Harbinger’s next product will be hybrid emergency vehicles

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

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

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

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