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Meta is buying billions of dollars in AMD AI chips in a multiyear deal tied to a 160 million-share warrant, deepening its push to diversify beyond Nvidia and expand data center capacity.

Themodelsupports questions spanning the full reproductive health spectrum, from early menstrual cycles through menopause.

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It's a major opportunity to grow Anthropics enterprise client base and a significant threat to SaaS products currently performing those functions.

The number of people affected by a data breach at government contractor giant Conduent is growing, as millions of people continue to receive notices warning them that hackers stole their personal data.

Waymo launched services today in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando.

New Relic is giving enterprises more observability tools, letting them create and manage AI agents, and better integrate OTel data streams.

Plug-in hybrid vehicles are rarely charged, according to a new study. Why are automakers still producing them?

Mogul, which helps artists track royalties and value their catalogs, raised $5 million in a round led by the Yamaha Music Innovations Fund.

With the new acquisitions, the company wants to bolster its position as a marketing solution by potentially adding video creation and more granular measurement.

The viral X post from an AI security researcher reads like satire. But it's really a word of warning about what can go wrong when handing tasks to an AI agent.

Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the California DMV in the ongoing battle around Autopilot.

While some dual investors are understandable, others were more shocking, and signal the disregard of a longstanding ethical conflict-of-interest rule.

The team that sold their last app Dark Sky to Apple are back with Acme Weather, which offers alternative forecasts, rainbow and sunset alerts, and more.

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of using 24,000 fake accounts to distill Claudes AI capabilities, as U.S. officials debate export controls aimed at slowing Chinas AI progress.

Uber Autonomous Solutions will see the company taking on all the tasks associated with operating a robotaxi, self-driving truck, or sidewalk delivery robot business.

AI news app Particle can now pull in key moments from podcasts, letting readers instantly play short, relevant clips alongside related stories.

Spotify continues to test its AI-powered Prompted Playlists feature, now rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden.

Finnish unicorn IQM plans to go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) valuing the company at approximately $1.8 billion joining the growing cohort of quantum computing companies listed on U.S. stock markets.

Chinese hackers allegedly broke into the network of an Ivanti subsidiary in 2021. The hackers exploited a backdoor in its VPN product, which allowed the hackers to gain access to 119 other unnamed organizations.

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Citrini Research imagines a report from two years in the future, in which unemployment has doubled and the total value of the stock market has fallen by more than a third.

AI-powered dictation startup Wispr Flow has launched its Android app today. The company released its app for Mac and Windows first, then launched on iOS in June 2025. On iOS, users could use Wispr Flow through a dedicated keyboard. On Android, the interface is a bit different, as you can access the dictionary through a []

Apple has invited the tech press to a special Apple experience on March 4, but it might unfold a bit differently than the company's standard press event.

On the latest episode of Equity, we debated whats next for the creator economy, and whether there will be any room for the next generation of creators to stand out.

Quantonation Ventures, a venture firm investing in quantum and physics-based startups, has closed its oversubscribed second fund at 220 million, or approximately $260 million. Thats more than twice the size of its inaugural fund, and comes in addition to other signals that the quantum winter isnt coming yet.

Netflix board member Susan Rice had predicted that corporations that take a knee to Trump will be held accountable when Democrats return to power.

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Chinas brain-computer interface industry is rapidly scaling from research to commercialization, driven by strong policy support, expanding clinical trials, and growing investor interest.

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I thought: other than hotels that use SUVs like the Escalade IQL to ferry guests around, what kind of monster chooses a car like this?

A list of some of the alternative app stores iPhone users in the EU can try today.

Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia.

Is Microsoft's gaming division doubling down on AI?

As generative AI evolves, a Google VP warns that LLM wrappers and AI aggregators face mounting pressure, with shrinking margins and limited differentiation threatening their long-term viability.

Jesse Van Rootselaar's descriptions of gun violence were flagged by tools that monitor ChatGPT for misuse.

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Thecreatoreconomy is evolving fast, and ad revenue aloneisntcutting it anymore.YouTubers are launching product lines,acquiringstartups, and building actual business empires.In fact,MrBeasts companybought fintech startup Step, and his chocolate business is outearning his media arm. Thisisntjustonecreatorsstrategy.Formany,itsthenew playbook. On this episode of TechCrunchsEquitypodcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Rebecca Bellan unpack how creators are diversifying beyond ads, []

The former HQ host Scott Rogowsky is back with TextSavvy, a live mobile game show that he's building on his own terms.

Dueling pro-AI PACs have centered around backing or targeting one New York congressional bid: Alex Bores, whose RAISE Act requires AI developers to disclose safety protocols and report serious system misuse.

Several updates are introduced in iOS 26.4, including an AI-powered playlist-generation feature in Apple Music, support for video content in the Podcasts app, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, and more.

The startup, founded by accountants who worked at Flexport, Miro, Hopin and Thrive Global, automates the difficulties of prepping financial statements.

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AI expands access to filmmaking for resource-constrained creators. But as efficiency becomes the industrys north star, creativity risks being overwhelmed by a deluge of low-effort, AI-generated content.

Peak XV says most of its new capital will target India as the firm prioritizes AI, fintech and cross-border bets while navigating recent partner departures.

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The technology promises to replace several parts of the grid with one device thats both controllable and updatable.

The company said on Friday that users between 18 and 24 years of age account for nearly 50% of all messages sent by Indians to ChatGPT, and users under 30 accounted for 80% of usage in the country.

The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni

Abu Dhabi-based tech company G42 has partnered with U.S.-based chipmaker Cerebras to deploy eight exaflops of compute through a new system in India