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After watching Reddit’s OpenAI and Anthropic communities, Sam Altman thinks social media cannot be trusted. And bots are to blame.

Deep Fission had been seeking to raise $15 million in a seed round as recently as April. The reverse merger will raise twice that amount.

Bluesky adds bookmarks so users can privately save posts they want to reference later.

Cefalo is the founder of Space DOTs, which launched in 2022 to detect space threats. She and her team have created a software platform for space tech manufacturers and operators to help them capture various data points, like radiation interference, as well as track any in-orbit anomalies, to help make space travel safer. 

The venture capital giant, behind cyber giants Wiz and Databricks, said it has notified current and former employees and the firm’s limited partners of its January breach.

Founders Fund, the Peter Thiel-backed VC, led Cognition’s latest round, with participation from existing investors like Lux Capital, Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, Elad Gil, Definition Capital and Swish Ventures. 

Google’s AI Mode is rolling out in Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese.

Signal introduces backups with both free and paid plans.

The breach, now known to have begun in March, raises questions about why it took six months for Salesloft to detect the breach.

Four whistleblowers share documents with Congress alleging that the company may have suppressed research on children’s safety.

As Anthropic endorses SB 53, much of Silicon Valley and the federal government are pushing back on AI safety efforts.

Just months after raising a whopping $10 billion, Databricks has confirmed another $1 billion raise at a $100 billion valuation.

Over 17.3 million viewers tuned in for YouTube’s first-ever exclusive global broadcast of an NFL game with the Chiefs and Chargers.

In his early 20s, Harry Qi left a million-year hedge fund job to join Y Combinator. His SMB AI agent startup is now growing fast.

Spotify is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audiobooks and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ.

The lawsuit marks the second time that an advertising exchange has sued Google since a federal judge ruled in April that the search giant had illegally monopolized ad exchanges and ad servers.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has agreed to acquire 50MHz of wireless spectrum and Mobile Satellite Service spectrum licenses from EchoStar for about $17 billion in cash and stock for its Starlink satellite network.

Amazon Music’s new feature “Weekly Vibe,” generates personalized playlists every Monday that are tailored to each listener’s evolving music tastes.

InDrive plans to expand into multiple verticals over the next 12 months across its top markets, starting with grocery deliveries in Kazakhstan.

Momenta is one of 20 global AV partners that Uber has scooped up across its ridehail, delivery, and freight businesses. Uber says those partnerships have already generated an annualized rate of 1.5 million mobility and delivery.

How can a chatbot be so wrong — and sound so confident in its wrongness?

One investor says Koah is “building the essential monetization layer for consumer AI.”

The shakeup comes as the startup was still struggling to get its test vehicle off the ground — literally. The first flight was only in March.

It’s not clear who cut the cables or why.

This is a bad idea.

This is the EU’s largest antitrust penalty ever — and Trump has already threatened to “nullify” it.

As age and identity verification laws become more mainstream, this legislation could have a dire impact on privacy.

Musk used to say Tesla would make 20 million cars and one million humanoid robots per year. The company’s board wants far less than that in exchange for $1 trillion.

OpenAI is shuffling the team that shapes its AI models’ behavior, and its leader is moving on to another project within the company.