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Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's product line, thanks to discoveries with AI.

Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint bid to acquire PayPal in a deal valued at approximately $53.4 billion. Reuters reports that the offer was submitted earlier this month and is backed by roughly $50 billion in committed bank financing. Under the proposal, Stripe and Advent would jointly own PayPal, []

Apple Intelligence is headed to China after regulators approved Apples AI services through a partnership with Alibaba. The long-rumored deal will bring Alibabas Qwen AI models to Apples operating systems, marking a major expansion of the companys generative AI platform into one of its most important markets.

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New Delhi announced a $6.5 billion smartphone manufacturing program and a $13.3 billion semiconductor push to deepen India's electronics supply chain.

The 2024 indictment, now unsealed, accuses three Russians and two web hosts of aiding hackers and profiting from cybercrime.

Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.

The app is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional video editing tools too complex or time-consuming.

Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies.

Lightspeed is in discussions to lead the funding round, sources say.

Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real, Lorde said onstage.

OpenAI's first hardware device is reported to be a screenless, AI-guided smart speaker that can move. Weird enough for you?

OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit.

A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.

If youve been waiting to try Apples revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to its AI-powered assistant and other new features before the softwares official launch this fall.

Anthropic's latest advert is stirring up high emotions which is undoubtedly what it was designed to do.

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI standards body modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their release.

DeepSeek, the Chinese large language model developer, is said to be preparing for a 2027 IPO debut as it also looks to raise around $1.5 billion in new funds at a $71 billion valuation.

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models?

Kid-friendly tech company Pinwheel announced the launch of a new landline phone designed to let children stay connected without the distractions of a smartphone.

They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a lot more.

Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice.

Singapore-based video generation startup PixVerse closed a Series C extension on the strength of 15 million monthly active users, it said.

The social media site says it will amplify posts made by users' mutual followers' to give the feed more of a communal feel.

The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.

Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses.

Apple would not comment on the security breach, which allegedly allowed a former employee to download sensitive files from Apple's network long after he departed the company for rival OpenAI.

The creator of TV Time is building a successor app that will let users import their watch histories and preserve the community that formed around discussing their favorite shows.

Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.

This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market's appetite for the company's fly, fail, fix approach to rocket development, which often ends in fireballs.

Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the the tech giant's broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete with rival services such as Apple Maps.

The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.

Washington D.C. has become a battleground for Uber and Waymo's competing views.

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