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YouTube Shorts is getting a makeover.

Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.

The prediction market giant Polymarket said it’s refunding users who had funds stolen due to a third-party breach.

The price increase comes amid rising components costs.

The company said it is discontinuing its email inbox in favor of its AI agent offering as users are increasingly handing over the reins of their email to the agents.

Base Power is skipping the PJM’s troubled interconnection queue by placing its batteries at people’s homes, offering backup services in exchange.

Despite ChatGPT’s commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude, data shows.

General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.

Un-0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company’s technology can replicate conventional AI systems.

Market research company Klue told customers that it believes the hacking group that stole their data is now deleting it. The company, however, warned about a second group of hackers wanting ransom.

Netris provides software that runs on network switches, and offers a platform that helps neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live.

The Department of Commerce declined to give the Chinese-owned automaker a special authorization to keep selling EVs in the U.S.

Apple raises prices of MacBook Air and Pro along with iPad Air and Pro.

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The Department of Transportation wants to remove the brake-pedal requirement for vehicles “designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems.”

Adobe said that it will integrate Topaz Labs’ tools across its apps.

Amazon’s latest India investment comes as global tech companies race to expand AI infrastructure in the country.

Security researchers found evidence that Russian authorities hacked the iPhone of a political opponent using a phone-unlocking device made by Cellebrite, even after the company said it would stop selling to Putin’s government.

As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools — gear first shipped about a decade ago — the same machines the MATCH Act would now put off limits.

Backed by Mayfield and Aramco Ventures, Vishal Sikka’s new venture brings together veterans from SAP, Infosys, and VianAI.

Right now he’s merely a several-hundred-billionaire, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.

In its first earnings report since going public, the AI chipmaker forecast a narrower gross margin in its core business, scaring investors.

While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers are actually making up a larger share of new hires, according to SignalFire data.

Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following departures from top scientists Noam Shazeer and John Jumper.

Revenue quadrupled to $41.45 billion compared with the same period a year ago. The company’s profit, meanwhile, rose from $1.88 billion to an incredible $28.2 billion year-over-year.

According to a new site, 24% of the most popular websites in the world don’t offer support for passkeys, which are considered the most secure way to log in to apps and services.

The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.

While there was probably a moment when Slate’s leadership had to green-light the switch from one battery type to another, the momentum toward that decision had been building for years.

The new app, which is currently being tested with select creators, will have Facebook’s recently launched AI creator assistant built into it.

Global music streaming service Deezer is taking a contrarian approach to AI, even as it adds a feature that lets fans remix songs.