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First Voyage has raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round from a16z speed run, SignalFire, True Global, and other investors.

After successfully lobbying the Trump administration to approve the sales of its H200 chips to China, Nvidia is now thinking of adding capacity to produce more of the chips.

Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

Thea Energy says that its planar-coil fusion power plant could be cheaper and easier to build thanks to AI-powered control software.

iRobot survived three decades of competition, but couldn’t survive European regulators killing its Amazon buyout. Now it’s being taken over by its own supplier in bankruptcy court.

Meta has three months to comply with Indian government directions that could affect how WhatsApp operates in the country.

Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musk’s xAI and popularized on his social media platform X, appears to have repeatedly spread misinformation about today’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia.

Fintech startup Mesa has shut down its Homeowners Card, which awarded points to cardholders for paying their mortgages.

Netflix’s $82.6 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. encapsulates a fraught moment for Hollywood, as the entertainment business is increasingly overshadowed by tech giants.

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Spinny is set to be valued at about $1.8 billion post-money in its latest funding round.

A woman is facing felony charges in Evansville, Indiana over a DoorDash delivery in which she allegedly sprayed the food with a substance that made the customers vomit.

Improvements to roads, bridges, and other infrastructure could take a hit as data center construction accelerates.

Rivian demonstrated the progress it’s made, and in the process showed just how far it still has to go to make its cars autonomous.

Your iPhone clock doesn’t have to be so “glassy” anymore, thanks to a new Apple software update.

Apple released patches for all of its flagship devices to fix security flaws under attack. Google also updated Chrome to remediate one vulnerability exploited in the attacks.

Women ran an experiment to see if LinkedIn’s new algo was being sexist and thought they proved it. But there’s more complexity involved, experts say.

Microsoft’s data center ambitions have imperiled its 2030 pledge to remove more carbon than it generates, making carbon removal credits all but necessary.

700Credit, a company that runs credit checks and identity verification services for auto dealerships across the U.S., had a data breach that allowed a hacker to steal names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers.

Trump signed an AI executive order targeting state laws and promising one national rulebook. Critics warn it could trigger court battles and prolong uncertainty for startups while Congress debates federal rules.

The real-time headphone translations experience keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and cadence intact, so it’s easier to follow the conversation and tell who’s saying what.

Retro’s new feature, Rewind, let you look back at your photo memories and scroll through them with a dial.

Hama Film makes photo booths that upload pictures and videos online. But their backend systems have a simple flaw that allows anyone to download customer pictures.

As robotaxi adoption continues, wild ideas like personal ownership and renting them out are starting to pop up again.

Reddit, one of the world’s largest social platforms, is arguing that it doesn’t meet the definition of “social media platforms” as it seeks to overturn Australia’s law banning children under 16 years of age from social media.

A baby was born in a Waymo this week, and it wasn’t even the first one.  What started as a novelty story quickly became a reminder of how autonomous vehicles have quietly become part of everyday life, complete with all the messiness that entails. The real coming-of-age story this week, however, wasn’t happening in San Francisco’s robotaxis. It was playing out in … Read more

Tools for Humanity, the company behind the app, is seeking to expand its “real human network.”

His reporting on a Stanford University president put Theo Baker on the map, but his upcoming book may cement his reputation as the rare young journalist willing to challenge Silicon Valley’s startup machine.

For the first time, developers can embed Google’s Deep Research tool, based on Gemini 3 Pro, into their own apps.

Despite launching as a humanoid robot designed to help consumers around the house, 1X’s Neo robots are heading to industrial use cases.