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Tesla’s energy storage business could use a boost after reporting two consecutive quarters of declining installations.

Oura CEO Tom Hale addresses viral backlash, talks about future of the smart ring maker.

The new emojis include a trombone, a treasure chest, an eyes-bulging face, a fight cloud, an apple core, an orca whale, a gender-neutral ballet dancer, a landslide, and Bigfoot.

Dig Energy’s water-jet drilling right promises to cut drilling costs by up to 80%, helping geothermal heating hit price parity with fossil fuel furnaces.

Customers are urged to take action after a database containing scrambled passwords and authentication information was compromised.

Nuclearn has developed AI tools to help reactor operators automate routine paperwork. “Think of it as the junior employee,” the company tells customers.

VideoVerse is an Indian AI startup that lets broadcasters extract highlights and create content from sports footage.

OpenAI executives are discussing a potential relocation out of California as increasing political resistance threatens the company’s efforts to convert from nonprofit to for-profit status, according to The WSJ, but the company says it has no plans to leave.

Finnish startup ReOrbit, has raised a record €45 million Series A for the country to offer “sovereign” satellites.

Nepal has reversed its social media ban following nationwide “Gen Z” protests and public backlash.

CEO Evan Spiegel just announced the company is restructuring around small “startup squads” of 10 to 15 people to regain agility against larger competitors.

Intel also announced the creation of a central engineering group that will build custom chips for outside customers.

The 13-year-old company could be valued up to $6.5, with Lightspeed’s stake worth $1.1 billion.

After watching Reddit’s OpenAI and Anthropic communities, Sam Altman thinks social media cannot be trusted. And bots are to blame.

Deep Fission had been seeking to raise $15 million in a seed round as recently as April. The reverse merger will raise twice that amount.

Bluesky adds bookmarks so users can privately save posts they want to reference later.

Cefalo is the founder of Space DOTs, which launched in 2022 to detect space threats. She and her team have created a software platform for space tech manufacturers and operators to help them capture various data points, like radiation interference, as well as track any in-orbit anomalies, to help make space travel safer. 

The venture capital giant, behind cyber giants Wiz and Databricks, said it has notified current and former employees and the firm’s limited partners of its January breach.

Founders Fund, the Peter Thiel-backed VC, led Cognition’s latest round, with participation from existing investors like Lux Capital, Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, Elad Gil, Definition Capital and Swish Ventures. 

Google’s AI Mode is rolling out in Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese.

Signal introduces backups with both free and paid plans.

The breach, now known to have begun in March, raises questions about why it took six months for Salesloft to detect the breach.

Four whistleblowers share documents with Congress alleging that the company may have suppressed research on children’s safety.

As Anthropic endorses SB 53, much of Silicon Valley and the federal government are pushing back on AI safety efforts.

Just months after raising a whopping $10 billion, Databricks has confirmed another $1 billion raise at a $100 billion valuation.

Over 17.3 million viewers tuned in for YouTube’s first-ever exclusive global broadcast of an NFL game with the Chiefs and Chargers.

In his early 20s, Harry Qi left a million-year hedge fund job to join Y Combinator. His SMB AI agent startup is now growing fast.

Spotify is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audiobooks and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ.

The lawsuit marks the second time that an advertising exchange has sued Google since a federal judge ruled in April that the search giant had illegally monopolized ad exchanges and ad servers.

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