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Since the release of GPT 5.2, AI tools have become inescapable in high-level mathematics.

The company offers a platform that helps mobile app developers market their wares and has an army of bankers working on its IPO.

Digg, a reboot of an earlier social news site, is now relaunching as a Reddit competitor focused on communities.

The Trends Explore page for users to analyze search interest just got a major upgrade. It now uses Gemini to identify and compare relevant trends.

We want musicians to keep making music, and for fans to have confidence that the music they find on Bandcamp was created by humans, the company said.

Type One Energy has raised more than $160 million from investors to date. The new funding will help the company further refine its stellarator technology.

Skild AI, which is building general-purpose robotic software, just raised a $1.4 billion funding round led by SoftBank.

Personal Intelligence is off by default, as users have the option to choose if and when they want to connect their Google apps to Gemini.

The company used an AI-native platform to help companies fight threats.

Shipping tech company Bluspark left internal plaintext passwords, including those of executives, exposed to the internet, at a time when hacks in the shipping industry are on the rise.

Parents will be able toggle the Shorts time limit on connected children's accounts.

It's a huge change to Tesla's approach with FSD, and it could impact Musk's $1T pay package and the company's myriad legal troubles.

VoiceRun, a startup that creates voice agents, raised $5.5 million in a round led by FlyBridge.

Meta is laying off 10% of staff in its Reality Labs division, which is core to developing the company's VR and metaverse products.

The Austin-based marketplace offers imagery from more than 50 space-based imagery providers.

The tech giant has pledged to be a good neighbor as it continues to invest in AI infrastructure throughout the country.

A consumer economics watchdog says Google's new Universal Commerce Protocol is ripe for misuse where consumers could pay more for items. Google denies this.

1X released a new world model that it says is a solid step toward its robots being able to teach themselves new tasks.

Google is now allowing users to create vertical videos using references image.

India's labor ministry is pushing the country's booming quick-commerce sector to prioritize the wellness and safety of its gig workers.

The company said it took only five months to go from $200 million to $330 million in annual recurring revenue.

The bundle includes access to Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro on Mac and iPad, as well as Motion, Compressor, and MainStage on Mac.

Deepgram is raising its Series C round at a $1.3 billion valuation.

Salesforce unveils Slackbot, a new AI agent that allows users to complete tasks across multiple enterprise applications from Slack.

Superorganism launched in 2023 as what it claims is the first venture capital firm focused on biodiversity, aiming to serve as the conservationist on the cap table for nature-friendly startups. Now, the firm has closed its first fund, securing $25.9 million in capital commitments from Cisco Foundation, AMB Holdings, and Builders Vision, among others, along []

Brazil's competition watchdog has ordered WhatsApp to put on hold its policy that bars third-party AI companies from using its business API to offer chatbots on the app. The agency has also started an investigation against the company to determine if the policy is anti-competitive.

AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz.

Hupo, backed by Meta, pivoted from mental wellness to AI sales coaching for banks and insurers, and secured a $10M Series A led by DST Global

Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year.

AI health records startup Torch will be using its tech for OpenAI's new ChatGPT Health, according to co-founder Ilya Abyzov.

We tried Amazon's new AI wearable Bee. It's not for pro users yet, but more features are expected this year.

Anthropic's Claude for Healthcare is unveiled about a week after OpenAI announced its ChatGPT Health product.

Pebble's founder talks about how his new company is doing things differently.

Built into the Claude Desktop app, Cowork lets users designate a specific folder where Claude can read or modify files, with further instructions given through the standard chat interface.

The Trump administration is planning to stop assigning value to human life when analyzing the costs and benefits of air pollution controls.

Amazon is counting on its Alexa footprint to help it gain traction in the consumer AI race.

Hackers gained access to some Betterment customers personal information through a social engineering attack, then targeted some of them with a crypto-related phishing message.

Apple says its services had a ecord-breaking year, as Apple TV, Apple Music, and Apple Pay also soared.

Apple and Google have embarked on a non-exclusive, multi-year partnership that will involve Apple using Gemini models and Google cloud technology for future foundational models.

Paramount has filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. Discovery, demanding greater financial disclosure regarding Netflix's $82.7 billion acquisition.

For more than two years, an app called ClothOff has been terrorizing young women online and its been maddeningly difficult to stop. The app has been taken down from the two major app stores and its banned from most social platforms, but its still available on the web and through a Telegram bot. In []

As Netflix gears up to acquire Warner Bros., the streaming giant took home 7 awards at the Golden Globes last night.

The bid comes from Quantum Computing Inc., which already lined up to buy Luminar's semiconductor division. Luminar founder Austin Russell has also expressed interest.

Before joining Meta, Powell McCormick was working as deputy national security advisor to PresidentDonald Trump.

French defense tech company Harmattan AI is now valued at $1.4 billion after raising a $200 million Series B round led by Dassault Aviation, which is best known for making the Rafale fighter jet.

African defense company Terra comes out of stealth with a $11.75M round led by Joe Lonsdale's 8VC.

Advertising on inDrive is being rolled out across its top 20 markets following mid-2025 tests.

Motional says it will launch a driverless robotaxi service in Las Vegas before the end of 2026.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page appear to be pulling back from the state where they co-founded Google.

Instagram says that although some users received suspicious-looking password reset requests, it has not been breached.