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Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.

With the midterms right around the corner, the new group is positioned to back candidates who support the AI company's policy agenda.

There are many iPad apps to help you organize recipes, sync tasks across devices, be more productive, and manage your notes.

Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret it.

A new poll shows that the debate over data centers is far from settled.

It's a new era for Tesla and one that will rely on its ability to launch the Cybercab and mass-produce the Optimus robot.

CERT-EU blamed the cybercrime group TeamPCP for the recent hack on the European Commission, and said the notorious ShinyHunters gang was responsible for leaking the stolen data online.

Moonbounce has raised $12 million to grow its AI control engine that converts content moderation policies into consistent, predictable AI behavior.

The e-commerce giant called the surcharge emporary but couldn't give a date for when the policy would be retired.

The U.S. telehealth giant says hackers stole customer support ticket data over the course of several days in February.

Next time around, the pressure will be on SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Gateway Capital, the Milwaukee-based venture firm founded by Dana Guthrie, can now begin investment operations for its $25M Fund II.

TBPN, Silicon Valley's cult-favorite tech podcast, will operate independently, even as it's overseen by chief political operative Chris Lehane.

Flipboard's social websites consolidate profiles and posts from Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, YouTube, podcasts, blogs, and RSS feeds into a single, shared destination.

ElevenMusic lets users create and remix songs using text prompts. The new app suggests ElevenLabs wants to be more than just a voice model company.

NASA Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman faced the most earthly possible conflict while in outer space: his Outlook wasn't working.

MAI released models that can transcribe voice into text as well as generate audio and images after the group's formation six months ago.

An exposed Amazon-hosted server allowed anyone to access reams of customer data without needing a password.

Google is adding a way to customize and instruct avatars for video creation in the Vids app.

The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told lawmakers that the use of Paragon spyware is necessary to counter terrorists thriving exploitation of encrypted communications platforms.

The TSA wait times feature is one of many new additions to the United app, including automatic rebooking assistance and real-time time weather radar maps.

The company's deliveries in the first quarter were just 6% higher than last year, and Tesla now faces a third straight year of falling sales.

Realta Fusion is buying magnets from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, providing a revenue stop gap.

It is the path of least resistance for a growth-stage company to hire from the familiar Silicon Valley pipelines but if a founder wants a diverse team, that value has to be put into practice from the very first hire.

One way Beehiiv is convincing creators to switch from rivals like Substack and Patreon is by not taking a cut of revenue.

Blockchain trackers put the cryptocurrency heist in the hundreds of millions of dollars and is already on track to be the largest crypto theft in 2026 so far.

Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices.

Delve faces new allegations that it violated the open source license of its customer, Sim.ai, by taking the customers's tool and passing it off as its own.

Passengers in Baidu's robotaxis were trapped for up to two hours.

Sonder profiles are completely unstructured, encouraging users to build something that looks like a mood board or a digital collage. Think MySpace rather than LinkedIn.

Cameo launched a new TikTok integration that allows U.S. creators to offer personalized videos through the app.

The Meta-owned company said it identified around 200 users who were tricked into installing a fake version of WhatsApp that was actually Italian-made spyware.

The firm says it can can reduce the cost of chip development by more than 75% and cut the timeline by more than half.

StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together on April 30. Space is limited. Register here for your pass.

The company struggled with quality issues when Gravity production started last year, and the new recall shows it's not out of the woods yet.

The glasses will reportedly feature cameras, microphones and speakers, and will connect to a smartphone and the cloud to process AI queries.

A human really borks things at Anthropic for the second time this week.

Slack just got a whole lot more useful.

Aurora, May Mobility, Motional, Nuro, Tesla, Waymo, and Zoox all refused to cough up a number during Senator Ed Markey's recent investigation.

OpenAI's latest funding round, led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, values the AI lab at $852 billion as it nears an IPO.

Among the most recent Y Combinator cohort, many startups were commanding $40 million valuations. But with more money comes higher expectations.

Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp.ai is closing its business, the company said Tuesday.

Meta faces thousands more court cases while Congress has proposed numerous bills addressing childrens online safety, some heavily criticized.

The game is available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DM chats and in group chats.

Truecaller now has more than 4 million paying users across the world.

Rec Room, the social platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, will shutter on June 1.

You can now order from Uber Eats and Grubhub using Alexa+, an experience Amazon says will be similar to chatting with a waiter at a restaurant or placing an order at a drive-thru.

The fitness tracking startup just closed a $575 million Series G with Cristiano Ronaldo and LeBron James among its investors. The obvious question looming over a round of this size at this valuation: Is an IPO coming?

Uber and WeRide have launched robotaxi operations without a human safety operator in Dubai as part of a broader expansion in the Middle East.

A hacker inserted malware in Axios, an open-source web tool downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, in a widespread hack.