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Meta rolls out a new AI creator assistant on Facebook
Meta announced on Thursday that it’s introducing a new AI creator assistant on Facebook that will give creators personalized recommendations based on their content style, performance, community, and goals. Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to...
What to expect from WWDC 2026: Siri’s highly anticipated revamp and Apple Intelligence updates
As Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC 2026, approaches, the excitement is building around what Apple has in store for us this year. From Siri’s overhaul to new Apple Intelligence updates, there’s a lot to look forward to. The annual Worldwide Developers...
A burglar used a Waymo to steal yoga clothes in San Francisco — and got away with it
A burglar used a Waymo while stealing yoga clothes in San Francisco this past January, and police have still not caught them. That may sound counterintuitive given the widespread concern that Waymo vehicles and other robotaxis are rolling surveillance machines. But...
Cash App launches a wand for tap-and-pay
Digital wallet app Cash App is launching a new gadget on Thursday, seemingly inspired by the social media trend that involves paying for items in the real world with a tap of a homemade magic wand, which hides a tap-and-pay credit card. Now, there’s a real wand you...
Waymo’s spent robotaxi batteries will be used as grid storage
Waymo has announced a deal with an energy storage company called B2U to use retired robotaxi batteries to serve electricity grids in California and Texas. The deal helps answer the question of how Waymo is thinking about the end-of-life treatment of the thousands of...
Oura Ring 5 review: Thinner, lighter, better
When I first opened the box the Oura Ring 5 comes in, my first thought was, “Wow, that’s tiny.” My second thought was that this is a smart ring a lot of people have been waiting for. As someone who got quite used to wearing the Oura Ring 4 Ceramic, I was surprised...
Benchmark raises its first-ever growth fund as part of $2B capital raise
Benchmark Capital, the storied Silicon Valley VC firm known for early investments in eBay, Snap, Uber, and Twitter, is breaking with one of its signature traditions: keeping its funds to about $425 million and backing only young startups. After more than two decades...
Quick commerce FirstClub doubles valuation to $255M in nine months
In a quick-commerce market obsessed with speed, Indian startup FirstClub has convinced investors that quality may be a fresh opportunity, helping to double its valuation just nine months after its last funding round. The Bengaluru-based startup has raised $55 million...
Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says
Lovable and Google announced an expanded multiyear collaboration on Wednesday. Lovable, the fast-growing Stockholm vibe-coding startup, has long been a Google Cloud user. Under the new agreement, it will be a much bigger one. While the companies did not disclose the...
Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce
In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money. The company admitted this test — which it called Project Deal — was only “a pilot experiment with...
Maine’s governor vetoes data center moratorium
Maine Governor Janet Mills has vetoed a bill that would have temporarily brought permits for new data centers to a halt. If it had become law, L.D. 307 would have imposed the country’s first statewide moratorium on new data centers — lasting, in this case, until...
OpenAI CEO apologizes to Tumbler Ridge community
In a letter to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he is “deeply sorry” that his company failed to alert law enforcement about the suspect in a recent mass shooting. After police identified 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar as a suspected...
The climate tech IPO window could finally be cracking open
Climate tech startups are capital intensive, timelines are long, and the technology is often considered “first of its kind.” What’s more, a key value proposition is addressing pollution — an externality that is, at best, poorly priced by the market. Those aren’t the...
Why Cohere is merging with Aleph Alpha
Canadian AI startup Cohere is taking over Germany-based Aleph Alpha with support from Schwarz Group (parent company of grocery chain Lidl). With the blessing of their governments, the companies intend to offer a sovereign alternative to enterprises in an AI landscape...
Why Tokyo is the most important tech destination of 2026
Every major tech conference has themes. Most are vague enough to mean everything and nothing at the same time. SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 is doing something different — four tightly defined technology domains, each backed by live demonstrations, dedicated exhibit floors,...
Lachy Groom to back India startup Pronto at a $200M valuation, sources say
Pronto, an Indian instant house-help startup, is finalizing a funding round led by tech investor Lachy Groom that would value the fast-growing company at about $200 million after investment, TechCrunch has learned. The deal is expected to bring in about $20 million in...
Steve Ballmer blasts founder he backed who pleaded guilty to fraud: ‘I was duped and feel silly’
Silicon Valley tends to tolerate a certain amount of founder exaggeration when pitching investors, often dismissing it as part of selling a vision. But some choices cross the line and can lead to jail time for founders and scandal for their investors. A case in point...
Palantir is reportedly helping the IRS investigate financial crimes
Palantir has helped the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigations office probe a variety of financial crimes in the U.S. for much of the last decade, The Intercept reported. The IRS has paid the firm $130 million since 2018 to use its data analysis software...
Cohere acquires, merges with German-based startup to create a ‘transatlantic AI powerhouse’
Cohere, the Canada-based enterprise AI unicorn, announced Friday that it would merge with the German-based enterprise AI company Aleph Alpha. The deal, which has yet to close, will value the newly formed company at $20 billion, the FT reported. Schwarz Group, one of...
CVSS scored these two Palo Alto CVEs as manageable. Chained, they gave attackers root access to 13,000 devices.
During Operation Lunar Peek in November 2024, attackers gained unauthenticated remote admin access — and eventual root — across more than 13,000 exposed Palo Alto Networks management interfaces. Palo Alto Networks scored CVE-2024-0012 at 9.3 and CVE-2024-9474 at 6.9...
Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage
Series, a social networking app, announced that it raised a $5.1 million pre-seed round, with investors including Venmo co-founder Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Pear VC, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, and GPTZero founder Edward Tian. The company was founded early last year by Yale...
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Will Online Casinos Ever Take the Place of Traditional Casinos?
Each year, people from around the world spend billions of pounds in both online and traditional casinos. But, the shift to online casinos seems to be the current trend. As the younger generation turns of legal age, many of them are using their smart devices to...
Enterprise IoT: The Future is Here, Now What?
Today's network of interconnected devices continues to grow in both size and scale. With everything from refrigerators to security cameras to baby monitors being developed with a wireless internet connection, these IoT (Internet of Things) devices are quickly bringing...
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