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Elon Musk says X will begin identifying “manipulated media” but doesn’t share details.

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Outtake makes an agentic cybersecurity platform to help enterprises detect identity fraud. Its angel investors read like a who’s who of tech industry names.

The company’s sales fell for a second year in a row, as Tesla looks to AI and robotics, including a new $2B investment in CEO Elon Musk’s company xAI.

ServiceNow partners with Anthropic just a week after announcing a partnership with OpenAI as the company takes a multi-model approach.

An unidentified bidder submitted a Hail Mary offer that was “substantially higher” than the winning bid at auction. Founder Austin Russell has been circling a bid, but it’s not clear he was behind it.

WhatsApp plans to charge developers of AI chatbots per message.

The organic kids’ snack food company may debut as soon as next week. It has issued a price range for shares, an SEC filing shows.

The deal is structured as an acquihire of nine key Cleanlab’s researchers.

Google Chrome is adding Gemini in sidebar and is rolling out an agentic feature for AI Pro and Ultra users

Patreon isn’t happy about Apple’s new subscription billing mandate, arguing Apple’s shifting rules create uncertainty for creators.

30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from a US company.

SpaceX eyes June for IPO to align with Musk’s birthday and the planets.

Apple’s Creator Studio Pro leverages AI to help creators with tedious tasks—like finding clips or building slides—without trying to do the work for them

The investigation is looking into a January 17 crash where a Zoox robotaxi hit the driver’s side door of a parked car, which Zoox said was “suddenly opened.”

How do you build tooling for the AI software stack? A company called Modelence has an interesting answer.

Once symbolic of a mid-2010s San Francisco tech bro, Allbirds is cutting costs to “support the long-term health of the business.”

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A report cited officials as saying that Homeland Security sought to determine if there was any harm to government security as a result of the lapse.

ASML’s record orders show chipmakers are still betting big on AI data centers.

Investors including a16z are betting that nuclear industry suppliers will be the big winners of the AI demand-driven nuclear renaissance.

LinkedIn is partnering with Descript, Lovable, Replit, and Relay.app at launch

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Samsung said that the upcoming feature will let you protect selected parts of the screen like notification popup area.

This is Amazon’s second layoff after the company cut 14,000 corporate jobs in October.

The social media company’s smartglasses are set to be released to the public later this year.

Google is the latest investor to back Redwood Materials as the battery recycling startup scales a new energy storage venture to power AI data centers and other industrial sites.

Waabi has secured a $750 million Series C round to accelerate autonomous trucking, and another roughly $250 million commitment from Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis exclusively on its platform.

Google’s launch of practice tests for JEE follows its recent move to offer full-length SAT practice tests in Gemini.

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