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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.

The court rejected Google’s argument that the trial judge made legal errors in the antitrust case that unfairly favored Epic Games.

With dating app fatigue rising, some people are finding love in unexpected places — the forums and sites they use to pass idle time online, as opposed to those dedicated to online dating.

Side products can no longer be maintained, even if they have “loads of happy and loyal customers,” as the Iconfactory’s co-founder, Ged Maheux, says.

Quora’s Poe platform is releasing an API to let developers access more than 100 models across text, image, video, and voice.

As part of the changes, TikTok’s head of Operations and Trust & Safety Adam Presser will become the general manager of TikTok USDS, a separate entity of TikTok that’s tasked with safeguarding U.S. national security interests, TechCrunch confirmed with TikTok.

OpenAI said the new Norway-based data center comes as the European Union races to achieve AI sovereignty by investing in data center and compute power.

Google confirmed it will sign the European Union’s general purpose AI code of practice. Meta has already said it will not sign the voluntary framework.

All U.S. TikTok users are able to view the notes that have been rated as helpful and submit their own ratings in return.

The social network is bringing new parental controls to Family Pairing, its feature that allows parents to link their accounts with their teen’s account to customize safety settings.

The Space Force is leveraging commercial competition for the next phase of its PTS program.

AI chip startup Groq is in talks to raise a fresh $600 million at a near $6 billion valuation, sources tell Bloomberg, although the deal isn’t yet final and terms could change. 

Both Luma and Runway have reportedly held conversations with self-driving car and robotics companies as they look toward the future.

The new round is being led by Iconiq Capital, with the possibility of a co-lead investor joining.

SOSV is investing in more than 25 plasma-related startups over the next five years.

Cash App’s new feature lets users pool money with a group to pay for expenses like vacations and gifts.

With this new capability, NotebookLM is taking a more visual approach to helping users understand different topics and ideas.

Google said it has “never built a backdoor” for its services, but refused to rule out that it had received a secret U.K. surveillance order demanding access to encrypted data.

OpenAI’s Study Mode aims to help students develop their own critical thinking skills, rather than just giving answers.

Spotify says AI will allow for “much more interactive” consumer experiences in its app.

Dating safety app Tea experienced a second data breach in as many weeks, exposing over a million sensitive messages between users.

YouTube is introducing age detection technology to identify teens on the platform in the U.S. and apply prtections.

The tech giant is rolling out a new Canvas feature, the ability to get real-time help with Search Live, and the option to search what you see while browsing.

The telecom giant, one of the largest in the world with customers in Europe and Africa, said customers are experiencing ongoing disruption to its services due to an unspecified hack.

Construction could start fast — but that speed has edangered Boring Company workers in the past.