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Gemini Spark helps automate everyday tasks, from inbox summaries to local event planning, but it’s unclear why Google made it a separate product.

“If you’re 22 years old in San Francisco and building something in AI, there may be a seed term sheet in your inbox — but if you’re 19, oh my God, this means you’re really good; you might already have a Series A [offer],” said one, half-kiddingly.

The Ninja Artisan Outdoor Pizza Oven is aimed at people who want delicious pizza nights without having to deal with things like propane or wood pellets, unlike many other pizza ovens.

TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.

The ruling drew support from founders, while lawyers said it could force platforms to revisit how they handle trademarked keywords.

The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing drugs — may herald a new business model that the tech industry is ready to embrace.

SpaceX already generated one-fifth of its 2025 revenue from government contracts, the company revealed in its IPO filing.

While AI is helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, researchers warn. And that could cause problems down the road for them. 

The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Box founder Aaron Levie, who pointed to this as an example of “AI psychosis.” Indeed, ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents, tech layoffs in 2026 are already nearly matching all of 2025, … Read more

Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining the way AI models respond to prompted requests, per Axios. 

A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is responsible for securing software.

Cognition makes Devin, the first and arguably most successful AI coding agent. But famed coder Wu says it isn’t designed to supplant human programmers.

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If you’re looking for a fun way to connect with nature while collecting bird species on an app like Pokémon, give this smart feeder a try.

South Korean chip startup Xcena is betting that AI’s real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.

The explosion is likely a major setback for Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company, and its attempt to compete with SpaceX.

The enterprise AI search startup tripled its annual revenue even as tech giants entered the category.

A new law and AV tracker tool gives the clearest accounting yet of how many robotaxis and self-driving trucks are in Texas.

As AI agents move from experiments to production, AWS, Cloudflare, and others are redesigning cloud infrastructure for a future dominated by machine-generated internet traffic instead of human users.

Asana will incorporate StackAI into its growing suite of AI workflow tools.

In its latest update, Bluesky is getting into long-form content.

A new hacking campaign is trying to trick Signal users to give up their secret recovery key, which can be used to access online backups containing past messages.

Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, marking what could be the AI startup’s final private fundraise before a highly anticipated IPO.

Large exchanges are designing derivative products around AI tokens, which are increasingly being considered less a computational output and more a raw material input, like electricity or bandwidth.

CEO Ariel Katz argues that while AI can replicate workflow SaaS, it can’t copy H1’s unique doctor data.

Europe’s startup ecosystem has matured significantly; its founders are increasingly willing to scale companies domestically instead of immediately looking to relocate to the U.S.

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Insurance tech Corgi announced today an $106 million Series B1 raise, valuing the company at $2.6 billion, just three weeks after announcing a $160 million Series B.