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A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.

In the wake of a massive hours-long gridlock event, San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie has told state regulators it’s time to put more requirements on robotaxi operators like Waymo.

The company didn’t immediately say what went wrong. SpaceX’s stock plunged more than 4% in after-hours trading before paring losses.

Coca Cola said dairy production at its Fairlife unit will “remain suspended” in the United States following a hack.

Ryan Beiermeister, who demonstrated cool analysis in the Founders Fund YouTube series “Mafia,” has joined the firm as a partner.

Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.

Roblox’s new “Build” feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.

BP Ventures is shutting down, ending a nearly 20-year run that was marked by reportedly lackluster returns.

Uber has agreed to acquire Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion all-stock deal that would nearly double the company’s global footprint and create one of the world’s largest food-delivery platforms outside China.

Beehiiv is launching an AI Copilot to help publishers with user growth and analytics.

X will use Grok AI to better detect stolen content, redirect payouts to original creators, and crack down on engagement bait.

Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion. 

With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.

Google said users can soon access their notebooks through AI Mode in Search.

DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal, marking another step toward software designed for AI agents instead of just humans.

While everyone in AI is chasing “superintelligence,” Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.

The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion. 

Aina is going to pilot a new device in the coming weeks.

The updates come as Meta and other tech companies are facing scrutiny from regulators and parents around how AI chatbots respond to users in crisis, particularly teenagers.

Syntetica, a French startup that has developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, has already obtained big-name partners and investors.

Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.

By keeping the number of investments to about 25 per fund, Greylock aims to remain what it calls “the most important partner” to its founders.

Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors’ models.

The safety board confirmed Tesla’s account of the crash, which the company shared days after it happened last month.

Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person’s health.

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.

The vulnerability in the decades-old game could have allowed hackers to take over victims’ computers with a malicious game invite.

Apple has published the policies governing its upcoming Maps advertising business, revealing a strategy that differs from Google’s. The new rules prohibit home services businesses like plumbers, electricians, locksmiths, and roofers from advertising on Apple Maps, along with several other sensitive categories, suggesting Apple is taking a more curated approach to these ads.

The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after SpaceX went public.

It’s the company’s first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.