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Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service.

Helion now has another $225 million to help speed development of its first fusion power plant, due to provide Microsoft with electricity in 2028.

Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users

Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.

DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China’s largest funding rounds, just days after the US ordered federal agencies to remove its technology over national security concerns.

Tesla said Wednesday it will start selling its Cybercab to customers by the end of the year, even as federal regulators investigate whether the vehicle meets vehicle safety standards. The gold-hued, autonomous two-seater lacks a steering wheel and other traditional controls. During the company’s third-quarter earnings call, Lars Moravy, vice president of engineering at Tesla, … Read more

Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn’t panicked by market jitters.

The social media giant is planning a new stock strategy to help power its broad investments in AI models and services.

Hosts are threatening to leave the platform after Airbnb says that they can no longer require guests to strip beds or do other time-consuming cleaning chores.

Meta Muse users are adopting the app for shopping and personal productivity, the company said during Q3 earnings. The AI app now has over 10M users.

Tesla’s revenue was flat and its expenses skyrocketed as it pressed the accelerator on its Optimus robots, AI, and autonomous driving.

Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.

Automattic has begun laying off employees across multiple teams, including WordPress.com and its enterprise business, following a board shakeup and a series of executive departures. Sources say more cuts could follow as the company looks to improve its finances.

To compete with Tesla, Rivian, and a host of Chinese automakers, GM’s fourth-gen EV platform will roll out a new central computer and electrical architecture that will debut in 2028 in the Cadillac Escalade IQ.

The payout is related to a recent trial involving the social media giant that revolved around its data privacy practices.

As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers’ behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.

From AI-discovered PHP vulnerabilities to flaws in Node.js and popular AI tool LiteLLM, cybersecurity teams have plenty to worry about this week.

Legal AI startup Legora announced Wednesday that it raised a $550 million Series E round, valuing it at $8.8 billion. 

Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion. 

Pickups and dropoffs will happen at dedicated “autonomous vehicle zones” at Terminal 1 and Terminal 3.

Foursquare raised $411 million in funding according to PitchBook data, but its equity holders saw no returns from its final acquisition.

More than 50% of managers say they’re finding it harder to evaluate employees’ work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.

Refrigerants startup Pascal has a new take on heat pump and cooling tech using a sponge-like material that promises to be 20% more efficient.

The startup initially set out to build better, faster, and cheaper surveying hardware in 2021.

The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model’s release without the permission of a judge.

Elon Musk likes the idea but says he is not on either committee, which is made up of independent directors.

Before you share the Netflix documentary “AI Gone Rogue” take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face’s co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went “full doomer mode” and isn’t accurate.

Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.

SpaceX hit profitably in the third-quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.

OpenAI says it’s adding Orchestra’s team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.