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Italy has launched two investigations into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard, alleging the company has engaged in misleading and aggressive sales practices for two of its most popular smartphone games.

A new era of app creation is here. It's fun, it's fast, and it's fleeting.

Irina Ghose joins Anthropic as India managing director after 24 years at Microsoft.

OpenAI and Microsoft tried to dodge a courtroom showdown with Elon Musk, but a federal judge on Thursday rejected their requests to dismiss the case.

The startup claims its AI platform can help optimize editorial processes and research.

AI labs just can't get their employees to stay put. Yesterdays big AI news was the abrupt and seemingly acrimonious departure of three top executives at Mira Muratis Thinking Machines lab.

The U.S. struck a trade deal with Taiwan as the country looks to help boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing.

Higgsfield says its on a $200 million annual revenue run rate. So it opened its previous Series A round back up and sold another $80 million in shares.

Irans government-imposed internet shutdown enters its second week as authorities continue their violent crackdown on protesters.

The Trump administration formalized its 25% cut of H200 chip sales in China with a tariff that applies to certain semiconductors.

OpenAI is participating in a $250 million seed round into Merge Labs, Sam Altman's brain computer interface startup. The startup is valued at $850 million.

WhatsApp is allowing AI providers to continue offering their chatbots to users in Brazil, days after the country's competition agency ordered the company to suspend its new policy that bars third-party, general-purpose chatbots from the app.

EtherealX is ramping engine tests and building a 150-acre rocket campus in India as it targets a 2027 launch mission.

Microsoft is buying over 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits from India's Varaha over the next three years.

The abrupt change in personnel was in the works for several weeks, according to an OpenAI executive.

The order, first proposed a year ago, bans GM from collecting and then selling geolocation data to third parties, like data brokers and insurance companies.

Emversity has raised $30 million in a new round as it scales job-ready training in India.

The California attorney general has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's xAI after its chatbot Grok began generating nonconsensual sexual images of real women and even children.

The collaboration will help OpenAI's models deliver faster response times for more difficult or time-consuming tasks, the companies said.

As Netflix tries to take down YouTubes dominance in the podcast space, it's getting new originals with Pete Davidson and Michael Irvin.

Global app downloads were down, but consumer spending was up to nearly $156B in 2025.

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