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The company’s regulatory policy team is trying to clean up a mess that CEO Elon Musk spent $300 million to help create.

Spotify sets the record straight about the distribution rights of artists, podcasters, creators, and authors on the platform.

Subscribers to ChatGPT’s $200-a-month Pro plan will get to try out Pulse, OpenAI’s latest agent product.

Threads is developing a new feature that would let users control what they see by ‘tagging’ the algorithm.

The recruiting startup has over 2,500 customers, including recruiters at Perplexity, Ramp and OpenAI.

Food supply chains are notoriously messy. Orders arrive through different channels, staff spend hours manually entering them into clunky enterprise software systems, and compliance often depends on spreadsheets. For decades, software vendors have tried, with mixed success, to modernize the workflows behind the global movement of perishable goods. Now, a Y Combinator startup called Burnt … Read more

The company will be required to pay a $1 billion civil penalty and provide $1.5 billion in refunds back to an estimated 35 million consumers harmed by the company’s “deceptive Prime enrollment practices,” the FTC says.

These online communities have become more critical in a time LGBTQ+ rights are under attack in the U.S.

A new test from OpenAI aims to understand how close AI is to outperforming humans at economically valuable work.

xAI has reached a deal with the U.S. GSA to sell Grok to federal agencies for 42 cents over 18 months, undercutting OpenAI and Anthropic.

From dating apps and AI-powered matchmaking to full-on digital companionship, artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a third party in our most personal relationships. But is it truly helping us find deeper connection — or just reshaping romance into an algorithmic illusion?

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Doorstep integrates into existing delivery apps and then, using phone sensors, tracks when a driver has entered a building, gone up an elevator, and made it to the desired doorstep.  

Teen Accounts first rolled out to Instagram a year ago after Meta and other popular social networks were grilled by U.S. lawmakers for not doing enough to protect teens on their services.

The AI platform Clarifai has launched a new reasoning engine that it claims will make running AI models twice as fast and 40% less expensive.

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Databricks is on the hook to pay at least $100 million to OpenAI in this deal, even if customer usage falls short. It’s a bet, but one that Databricks has already hedged.

Apple is blaming the EU’s enforcement of the DMA for delaying the launch of some features in the EU, saying the rules are “leading to a worse experience” for Apple customers in the bloc by exposing them to new risks and reducing choices.

Starpath is changing the space-rated solar panel industry in its quest to build off-world colonies.

Drivers who listen to TuneIn will now receive real-time alerts, including extreme weather warnings and other emergencies. 

Spotify is launching a music spam filter, labeling AI tracks, and clarifying its rules around AI voice clones.

Nothing is making its affordable devices brand CMF into a separate entity with headquarters in India.

While the industry’s biggest players cement ever-tighter partnerships, Google is hellbent on capturing the next generation of AI companies before they become too big to court.

The accelerator has introduced a new application track called Early Decision, designed for students who want to start companies but don’t want to drop out.

X sued the Indian government in March over content takedown orders issued through its centralized portal.

In a new, scathing Financial Times op-ed, the former Sequoia Capital honcho compares the White House to Tony Soprano’s pork store, calling its new H-1B visa plan another “brutish extortion scheme.”

Medical device funding is hitting levels we haven’t seen since 2021, with investors pouring billions into diagnostics and imaging companies. While innovation has raced ahead, a fundamental problem still hasn’t changed: Critical medical hardware like MRI machines cost millions of dollars and is limited to large hospitals. So how do you take one of the … Read more

A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.

The exemption would allow the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company to commercially deploy its custom-built robotaxis, which lack traditional controls like pedals and a steering wheel.

Lithium Americas asked for a small change to the loan repayment period, which spurred the latest Trump administration request for equity.