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VCs and founders took much of the $2.4 billion, but money was left for a payout to all employees, sources say.

Fundamental Research Labs is releasing multiple AI products related to gaming and productivity.

The internet-connected sex toy maker said it fixed the vulnerabilities that exposed users’ private email addresses and accounts to takeovers, but said it was also planning to take legal action following the disclosure.

The app’s call recording feature will no longer be available on iPhones starting September 30. Users with saved call recordings can either download them to their devices, share them via email or messaging apps, or switch their storage preference to iCloud to keep the recordings accessible.

The app features TikTok’s new “Sunshine Programme,” which allows users to support charitable organizations.

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The oversubscribed round came months ahead of schedule, and is part of OpenAI’s strategy to raise $40 billion.

Until now, Instagram allowed anyone to go live, regardless of their follower count or whether their account was public or private.

Autonomous weapons, decentralized strategy, and startup speed — this isn’t the future of defense, it’s the now. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Ethan Thornton, CEO and founder of Mach Industries, steps onto the AI Stage to talk about how next-gen defense is being built from the ground up with AI at its core. Inside the AI … Read more

Investors have bought into Pearl Edison’s idea and recently poured $3 .3 million into the startup.

The round could make the AI data storage company one of the most valuable in the world.

German authorities said they have seized the servers used by the long-running ransomware gang, BlackSuit, which is blamed for cyberattacks across Europe and the U.S., including the City of Dallas.

Details are slim, though, regarding when Klarna will schedule its debut; no final decisions have been made.

All Raise released a report that said 18.6% of the top roles at leading VC firms are held by women, which is double what it was in 2018.

Reddit is working on a new unified interface that will merge its legacy search and AI-powered Q&A features, as well as make its search box more prominently visible in the app.

Joby’s years of R&D with the DoD may be paying off. The company has signed an agreement with defense contractor L3Harris to develop a gas-turbine hybrid VTOL that can fly autonomously — for defense applications.

Google released its first publicly available “multi-agent” AI system, which uses more computational resources, but produces better answers.

Latvian startup Handwave aims to compete with Amazon palm payments by offering an independent alternative.

SixSense offers an AI-powered platform that helps chip makers prevent defects. It landed backing led by Peak XV’s Surge (formerly Sequoia India & SEA).

Andy Jassy’s description of an AI-generated ad that Alexa+ delivers in a multistep conversation, which could help users find new products, is uncharted territory for Amazon and the broader tech industry.

While sales growth suggests fear of tariffs helped fuel sales, Cook downplayed the “pull forward” effect, noting that consumers were more motivated by the “strength of the product.”

Reddit reported its Q2 earnings, and it’s clear that its focus on AI has ramped up significantly.

The rate of iPhone sales growth has accelerated too. This uptick in sales might be temporary, though.

Apple is open to M&A to accelerate its AI strategy, and says it’s made seven acquisitions this year so far.

Will Griffith is a seed investor in Figma. Investors didn’t want to sell millions of shares. He explains why they did it anyway.

Anthropic holds 32% of enterprise LLM market share by usage. This is a sharp reversal from just two years ago when OpenAI held 50%.

Yoel Roth shares concerns about the open social web’s ability to combat misinformation, spam, and other illegal content.

While the 2010 original film focused on Mark Zuckerberg’s rise, “Social Network Part II” is said to draw from Jeff Horwitz’s “The Facebook Files,” which exposed Facebook’s harmful effects on teens and its role in spreading misinformation.

Search engines are indexing links to ChatGPT conversations that have been made sharable with a link.

There has been so much demand for this stock that people on X are posting funny pictures of their orders being fulfilled.