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Claude’s chatbot may ask to verify your age and identity “in certain circumstances,” such as with a passport or driver’s license, according to a privacy policy change.

Amazon is planning to increase the footprint of its new conversational AI assistant Alexa+ to India and is inviting users in the country to test out a Hindi-language version.

Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia’s latest GB300 AI chips and supporting hardware across SpaceX’s Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, Tennessee.

WhatsApp gets a new boss, as Will Cathcart moves to a new role at Meta, while Shah steps down as CEO of Indian fintech giant CRED to replace Cathcart.

Instagram is coming for streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video as it sets its ambitions for living room viewing.

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The company is also eliminating a production shift at its Arizona factory to align “production plans with anticipated demand.”

After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early-stage investor Seedcamp said that it has raised $320 million for its latest fund which will see it expanding its presence in the United States.

Huntress, HackerOne, Jamf, Recorded Future, and Tanium are among the cybersecurity companies that had data stolen following an earlier breach at market research firm Klue.

Mach’s approach differs sharply from some of its peers.

Claude Guillemot, who founded Ubisoft with his four brothers, has died at the age of 69.

Many of those videos were reportedly filmed on “near-perfect copies” of the Polymarket website, while featuring trades and winnings that were not real.

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On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration’s latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.

Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in iOS 27.

“These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

So … what’s your In the Weights score?

Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.

Jumper isn’t the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.

While it’s not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of additions to iOS 27 worth looking at.

French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.

Go’s IPO — Japan’s biggest so far this year — has done more than provide a much-needed boost to the country’s languishing listing season. It has also supplied the taxi-hailing app with the capital required to address an existential issue: Japan’s shortage of drivers. Go, which went public Tuesday, plans to use the ¥88.6 billion … Read more

What’s the most cliche possible gift you can give a relative? A digital photo frame, displaying a rotating slideshow of family photos. Now Aura has completely refreshed this product space with its gorgeous Aura Ink frame, which uses e-ink to create a display that doesn’t even look digital. Digital frames have always been so popular … Read more

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails.  Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jailbreaks exist in other models. So is … Read more

Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.

Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what’s next is less clear.

There’s a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.

Telegram argues India should block specific content, not an entire platform used by millions.

DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.

Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush” marches on.