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The new model, called 0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.

This week on Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen speaks with Capella Kerst, founder and CEO of geCKo Materials.

Five years later the founders, now 24 years old, say their startup has achieved $300 million in annualized revenue.

OpenAI's agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and abilities.

Europol coordinated an operation against for-hire distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) services, including the arrest of four people and the takedown of 53 domains.

A herald of the SAASpocalypse?

Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET.

If culture is shaped by TikTok's algorithmic feed, then it's time for us to decide where we draw the line between necessary marketing and inauthentic growth hacking.

Now, when you're using AI Mode on Chrome desktop, clicking a link will open the web page side-by-side with AI Mode.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that two Americans were sentenced to years in prison for helping the North Korean government place fake IT workers in U.S. companies.

According to CEO Helen Gu, the biggest problem facing the industry today is not just monitoring and diagnosing where AI models go wrong, it's diagnosing how the entire tech stack operates now that AI is a part of it.

Adobe says AI traffic to U.S. retail sites also jumped 269% in March, with visitors converting better and generating more revenue than non-AI shoppers.

The feature will be initially available to paid users in the U.S.

The new new tools are designed to help creators throughout the entire development process.

Google blocked 8.3 billion ads in 2025 but suspended fewer advertisers.

Why choose fossil fuels or electricity when you can have both? NOC Energy has figured out how to hybridize heavy industry.

Runways CEO says AI could help studios make dozens of films for the cost of one, betting volume will boost hit-making odds.

Starting April 19, the price of the Meta Quest 3S (128GB) and Meta Quest 3S (256GB) will go up by $50 to $349.99 and $449.99, respectively. The price of the Meta Quest 3 is going up by $100 to $599.99.

The latest version of Canva's AI assistant lets users create editable designs with text prompts.

Retail giant Express was publicly spilling customer information to the open web. The bug is now fixed after TechCrunch alerted Express, but the company would not say if it plans to notify customers.

Antioch raised a $8.5 million seed round to create simulation tools for a new generation of robot builders.

DeepL says its tech could be used for real-time translation with meeting tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams

Nuclear startup X-energy hit the road today to sell prospective investors on its initial public offering.

You can share anything on their screen with Gemini to get help with what they're looking at in the moment, including local files

Glydways is in talks to raise another $250 million as it prepares to launch three pilot programs.

Accel announced on Tuesday that it raised $5 billion in fresh capital to back late-stage companies building AI.

Emergent's Wingman lets users manage and automate tasks through chat on platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram.

VCs are frothing at the mouth to write more checks to Anthropic at a valuation that matches or beats OpenAI's.

Motorola is suing dozens of content creators and social media platforms including Instagram, X, and YouTube over posts it alleges are defamatory.

Airwallex, valued at $8 billion, is launching a point-of-sale product that lets businesses accept in-person payments in multiple countries via a single platform.

Fathom will allow you to choose between video, audio-only, and transcription modes.

Spotify users in the US and UK can officially purchase physical books through the Android app. iOS users will get the feature next week.

One investor who has backed both companies told the FT that justifying OpenAI's recent round required assuming an IPO valuation of $1.2 trillion or more making Anthropic's current $380 billion valuation look like the relative bargain.

Fundraising is reportedly flowing for Fluidstack after it secured a $50 billion deal to build data centers for Anthropic.

Dozens of WordPress plug-ins were allegedly hijacked to push malware after they were sold to a new corporate owner.

The acquisition will allow the company to expand its business into international markets without needing to launch a delivery network in those regions.

Anything is planning to launch a desktop companion app to aid mobile app development after its App Store removal.

Amazon on Tuesday agreed to buy satellite company Globalstar, known for powering Apple's Emergency SOS feature, for $11.57 billion in cash.

The search for a new CEO, which lasted over a year following the sudden resignation of Peter Rawlinson, is finally over.

Inertia has signed three agreements with the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, paving the way for the company to bring its pioneering fusion reactor to market.

Though Amazon has faced issues with warehouse safety, the company said that the death was not work related.

The acquisition indicates a capability that OpenAI is building into ChatGPT: financial planning.

Uber employees can now hail a Lucid robotaxi as part of the testing.

Launched in 2022, Outlook Lite is a lightweight version of the regular Outlook app, designed for Android phones with limited storage and regions with slower internet connections.The app had already been scheduled for retirement.

Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he goes to since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes.

IBM enteredinto a $17 million settlement agreement on Friday with the U.S. DOJ over allegations that it engaged in illegal DEI practices.

The new features would be geared toward enterprise customers, with better security controls than the famously risky open source OpenClaw agent.

Stanfords latest AI Index shows a widening gap between experts and the public, with rising anxiety over jobs, healthcare, and the economy.

Cybercriminals allegedly used the W3LL phishing kit to target more than 17,000 victims worldwide, stealing their passwords and multi-factor authentication codes.

The travel giant notified customers that their personal data, including names, emails, physical addresses, and phone numbers may have been accessed in a security incident.