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The Samsara Tracking Label hides a BLE system that can offer real-time location in a disposable package.

After years of struggling to curb my screen time, apparently all I needed was a $59 hunk of plastic.

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New details have emerged about Valor’s latest fund, which last year announced it was raising an unspecified amount of capital.

The Jeff Bezos-backed startup finally revealed more pricing details for its debut EV, including a $29,950 starting price for the SUV variant, and boosted the base range to 205 miles.

TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC evening in Los Angeles late last week brought together two of the more straight-talking investors working in AI right now. They were as entertaining as they were illuminating.

Walmart-backed Flipkart has crossed 1,000 micro-fulfillment centers as Amazon accelerates its own quick-commerce push in India.

The all-cash deal gives MoEngage access to technology that assigns AI agents to individual customers.

Superhuman, which also has an AI detection tool as part of Grammarly, has snapped up GPTZero.

Menlo has created a solid rep for itself as an AI investor, all based on one gutsy $750 million move in 2024.

It’s unclear why Klue had not revoked the credential after the limited pilot, which hackers then used to breach a system holding keys for accessing customers’ data.

The app would be independent of Meta’s other social media offerings, although sources told the NYT that those social sites could direct users to engagement with the app.

Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows.

This is the second data breach to affect LastPass customers in recent years, after one of the password manager’s tech partners was recently breached.

HaloBraid aims to help salons speed up braiding with its first device, slated to launch later this year, that acts as a braiding assistant for professional stylists.

The smart glasses are available in several countries starting today in a variety of color and lens combinations.

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Ribbie lets you follow along live with MLB games with a delightful, arcade-inspired interface.

Stockholm-based startup Fika Jobs is building a video-first hiring platform that combines AI interview agents with short-form video profiles, creating something that feels like a cross between LinkedIn and TikTok.

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

OpenAI is attempting to tackle the security issues of the open source software community.

Whether the Autopilot system was truly active, overridden, or malfunctioning likely won’t be resolved until investigators finish combing through the vehicle’s data logs.

The lawsuit, led by a Detroit pension fund, alleges Uber’s board and management has cut too many compliance corners, resulting in thousands of lawsuits.

The loop takes agentic AI a step further, by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.

Microsoft inked a 20-year power purchase agreement with Chevron, locking in decades of carbon emissions from a new natural gas power plant.

What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.

Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI’s biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.

The incident comes as Tata Electronics expands its role in global technology supply chains.

European offensive cybersecurity company Paradigm Shift released details of a flaw and a technique to exploit it that opens the door for hackers to unlock and break into older iPhones.

Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.