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Claude’s new Reflect dashboard doesn’t just visualize how you use AI. It also subtly reinforces how much of your daily work now depends on Anthropic’s chatbot.

Three big AI IPOs are set to generate more value than all the U.S. VC backed exits since 2000.

Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.

In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company’s core product, users can chat with these shows’ characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.

Nilekani remains Fundamentum’s anchor investor as the firm expands its leadership team and targets AI and fintech startups in India.

The caller ID company says users are increasingly ignoring and blocking calls from India’s dedicated business number series.

The saga of Musk’s tussle with the SEC over how he disclosed his growing stake in Twitter (now X) has come to an end.

The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said emergency scenes are not “edge cases.”

Earlier this week, a picture that seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extreme distress. It turned out to be an AI-generated fake.

Like its U.S. counterpart, the European Chips Act aims to foster the semiconductor industry — in part thanks to state subsidies. One of the beneficiaries is QuantumDiamonds, a German startup that applies a novel approach to inspecting chips.

Manna is launching a U.S. operations and manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will eventually employ 1,000 people.

Elon Musk’s tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.

This developer didn’t expect his side project to grow to 300,000 users, but people love Roost because it’s an alternative to an always-on, fast-paced online culture.

X plans to send users direct messages when posts they’ve liked, replied to, or reposted receive Community Notes, an update aimed at addressing criticism that the platform’s crowdsourced fact-checking system often arrives too late to curb misinformation.

The feature can do things like apply cinematic relighting to brighten up a dark clip, swap out a plain background for something fun, or add artistic styles to videos.

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a … Read more

Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use.

OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.

For Paradigm, the technical frontier will stretch beyond its cryptocurrency investment roots. This fund is expected to expand its investment focus to include robotics and AI.

Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs.

The cyberattack targeting a U.S. insurance giant is the largest known breach of driver’s license numbers so far in 2026.

There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.

Vermilion Cliffs Ventures announced Wednesday the close of a $25 million Fund II.

Apple has signed a $30 billion+ multiyear deal with Broadcom to design and produce more than 15 billion U.S.-made custom wireless connectivity chips for Apple products. 

Build a new kind of rocket engine, and the world will beat a path to your door.

Blue Origin is raising $10 billion at a $130 billion pre-money valuation from Coatue Asset Management, Bezos himself and other big-name investors, the New York Times reported.

With funding from tennis star and angel investor Venus Williams, the French app WeWard says that it increases walking time by almost 25%.

Kevin Weil’s new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.

ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.