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This is the first time the Alphabet-owned company has turned to debt financing.

Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of popular Cal AI calorie tracking app, has launched a new personal AI agent startup that competes with Instinct, Muse and Bee.

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Google’s new AI Edge Foresight app takes on Granola with an offline meeting note-taker that can transcribe conversations, generate notes, and answer questions using on-device AI.

Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the funding round, and existing shareholders Tencent, HSG (formerly known as Sequoia China), ZhenFund and others also participated.

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The lineup includes three models: Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, Amazon Alexa Tablet 11, and Amazon Alexa Tablet 8.

The two companies said on Thursday that they would begin testing Pony.ai’s Gen-7 robotaxis in London in the coming weeks.

Starlink is still awaiting security clearance before it can seek spectrum and begin commercial services in India.

The startup pays people to record everyday tasks.

Endeavor Catalyst just raised $320 million to keep backing founders outside Silicon Valley. Half the profits go back to the nonprofit that finds them.

The developer of Hermes agent raised a $90 million Series B.

Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.

Meta’s AI agent Muse is now available on iPad, just a month after its mobile debut, as the company rapidly expands the assistant’s reach and integrations.

ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.

X is turning its NFL-focused Gametime feature into a year-round sports destination, starting with MLB and with other professional leagues to follow.

OpenAI is launching a new user interface that will bring interactive visuals to ChatGPT.

As it turns out, the cure for stuffy, chemical-infused office air might be a tower of leafy greenery.

Meta launches new AI tools after discovering ads on its platforms that may look normal but direct users to harmful content elsewhere online.

The financing includes an $8M seed round co-led by Sequoia Capital and First Round Capital, and a $30 million Series A led by Hummingbird Ventures.

The Detroit startup has widened its scope beyond mobility to help drone and robotics companies find U.S.-based manufacturers, shippers, and more.

Parallel Systems raised $100 million to scale production of its autonomous electric rail vehicle, which can shuttle thousands of pounds of freight up to 500 miles.

The “father of the iPod” says the first generation of AI gadgets failed to solve real problems — and the next wave will need to earn consumers’ trust.

Google Labs is working on a new AI-powered game-creation platform called Playground for users to build browser-based games using simple text prompts.

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Spotify will make 350,000 titles available in over 120 languages for this expansion

“I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless,” one shopper wrote on Threads.

Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.