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Customer service AI agent startup Sierra claims to have hundreds of customers including SoFi, Ramp and Brex, among others.

The company previously laid off around 140 workers in its manufacturing division in June.

The poke-tracking feature is largely designed to appeal to younger users who have grown up with gamification elements built into their social apps, like Snapchat and TikTok Streaks.

Stripe is funding a new blockchain called Tempo to process stablecoins faster. And many big names are joining the effort.

Mark S. Zuckerberg, an attorney, says that he’s losing business because his Facebook business profile keeps getting disabled.

The new fund hopes to send a “Seqouia-like” signal to other investors that there are promising later-stage climate tech startups waiting to be funded.

Ella provides recommendations to customers across the three retailers on what to purchase or rent to make an outfit come to life. 

Though the feature shipped in beta in May, XChat is now accessible for more users, including those who do not subscribe to X Premium.

The OpenAI Jobs Platform is set to launch in mid-2026, and will use AI to match candidates with businesses.

Nepal has moved to block 26 social media platforms for failing to comply with its registration requirements.

Having built and sold e-commerce shipping startup Deliverr to Shopify for $2.1 billion in 2022, co-founder and CEO Harish Abbott knows the logistics industry well. Abbott felt that many manual tasks in logistics could be automated using AI. That’s why last year he launched Augment which offers an AI assistant called ‘Augie’ that can take … Read more

It’s the first airport in California that Waymo will offer rides to and from. The company’s been active at the Phoenix airport for nearly two years.

Meta says that the 10,000 characters give people more room to express themselves, but also allows them to promote their work and drive others to “wherever it lives,” even if not on Threads itself.

Legacy aerospace pairs with next-gen aviation startup in this major deal.

Google Photos already offers video generation through its “Photo to video” feature, but the company says the addition of Veo 3 enhances that functionality with higher-quality video.

Lambda, which allows companies to rent GPUs, is reportedly following its rival CoreWeave to the public market.

Captions, the AI-powered video creation and editing app for content creators, is rebranding to Mirage.

Former Meta exec Nick Clegg recalls an MMA session with Zuckerberg at a management offsite.

While many other airlines are choosing Starlink, JetBlue is opting for Amazon’s newer Kuiper satellites. But the service won’t launch until 2027.

Google’s Circle to Search feature now supports translation.

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Adobe is planning to bring its video editing software Premiere to the iPhone. The company has listed the app on the App Store with a pre-order link and an expected release date of September 30.

Productivity software maker Atlassian has agreed to acquire The Browser Company, which makes the Arc and Dia browsers, for $610 million in cash.

With DuckDuckGo’s $9.99 per month plan, users will be able to access newer models, including OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta’s Llama Maverick.

Orbital Paradigm is moving fast and cheap to industrialize low Earth orbit.

The two-year-old OpenAI rival, founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, develops open source language models and Le Chat, its AI chatbot built for European audiences.

Scale is clearly concerned enough about the threat of Mercor, and the poaching of one of its employees, to pursue legal action.

An AI Siri is in the works and it could be running Gemini under the hood.

Mike Liberatore left xAI at the end of July. He is the latest in a string of executive departures at Elon Musk’s AI firm.

FirstClub has raised $23 million in a Series A round co-led by Accel and RTP Global to expand its premium quick commerce platform.