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Andreessen Horowitz is pausing its Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund and program, according to multiple sources.

Over the last year, certain AI markets appear to be nearly sewn up by startup market leaders.

Flock said around 3% of its law enforcement customers do not use multi-factor authentication, potentially exposing dozens of law enforcement agency accounts open to compromise and improper access.

OpenAI’s approach to working with copyrighted content is to ask forgiveness, not permission.

Locket’s social app is using iOS Live Activities to reach Gen Alpha via the iPhone Lock Screen.

The CEOs of OpenAI and Microsoft are betting that AI will continue to consume more electricity, but they’re not sure how much. That could leave some investors holding the bag.

Before this update, users could see individual pages for apps on the web, but there was no way to browse within the App Store.

Peter Williams sold eight exploits to a Russian zero-day broker by smuggling them from his employer’s highly secured air-gapped network. A court document, plus exclusive reporting by TechCrunch and interviews with former Trenchant staff, explains how Williams pulled off the heist of hacking tools.

This deal was announced just hours after Microsoft announced a $9.7 billion deal with Australian data center company IREN.

Three people, including two U.S. ransomware negotiators, are accused of working on behalf of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang.

Detroit, Las Vegas, and San Diego are next on Waymo’s robotaxi tick list.

This update will allow Facebook Groups to expand their reach without having to start a public group from scratch or exposing their members’ past posts.

Desktop users who have enhanced autofill enabled with see their passport and driver’s license number, vehicle information, like their license plate or VIN, and more automatically filled.

Dia’s AI browser has a head start on what works for consumers thanks to learnings from its browser experiment, Arc.

The Indian fintech already has a presence in 20 countries worldwide.

The awards will include “Creator of the Year,” “Video of the Year,” “Muse of the Year,” “Breakthrough Artist of the Year,” and more.

OpenAI isn’t done securing the AI infrastructure it needs to rapidly scale agentic workloads. The ChatGPT-maker on Monday said it has reached a deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion in cloud computing services over the next seven years.  

For the first time, the U.S. has granted Microsoft a license to export Nvidia chips to the UAE – a move that positions the country as both a proving ground for U.S. export-control diplomacy and a regional anchor of American AI influence.  

The deal will give Microsoft access to compute infrastructure built with Nvidia’s GB300 GPUs, which will be deployed over phases through 2026.

Brian Koo’s Stock Farm Road and Utopai Studios have partnered up to form Utopai East, an AI-powered film production company.

“As an investor, you kind of have to not only say, okay, cool tech, sure, but emotionally, how does it make me feel? And how does it make others feel around me?”

Despite the emphasis on detachment from ideas, X employees do have significant skin in the game when projects spin out.

At Disrupt, Botha had advice for founders who are swimming in terms sheets right now.

Senator Martha Blackburn argued Gemma’s fabrications are “not a harmless ‘hallucination,’” but rather “an act of defamation produced and distributed by a Google-owned AI model.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that the company is doing “well more” than $13 billion in annual revenue — and he sounded a little testy when pressed on how it will pay for its massive spending commitments.

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The White House released more details Saturday about a trade deal reached between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Meta’s AI spending is starting to make Wall Street nervous.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are still taking swipes at each other on Musk’s social media platform X.

While Armstrong may have helped some Kalshi and Polymarket users make a little money, he was also illustrating how easily these markets can be manipulated.