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Cyera raised another $400 million just six months after its last huge round.

For the past two weeks, X has been flooded with AI-manipulated nude images, created by the Grok AI chatbot and governments around the world are promising to take action.

Building software products has never been easier, so why are so many well-funded startupsfailing to takeoff no matter how good their product is? In this season finale episode of Build Mode, our guest has an answer: Startups have focused too much on product development and not enough on distribution excellence. Paul Irving is partner and []

The infamous spyware maker released a new transparency report claiming to be a responsible spyware maker, without providing insight into how the company dealt with problematic customers in the past.

Get that silky-smooth nitro coffee at home without the wasteful cartridges with EverNitro.

CES is always chock-full of robots, and this year electronics giant LG announced a new bot, dubbed CLOid, that it claims will revolutionize household chores (as in, you won't have to do them anymore).

Internet monitoring firms and experts say Irans internet has almost completely shut down, as protests spread through major cities.

OpenAI is acquiring the team behind executive coaching AI tool Convogo in an all-stock deal, adding to the firm's M&A spree.

Luckey, who initially made his fortune in VR and now runs the defense contractor Anduril, and Ohanian both seemed to agree: Stuff was better in the old days.

The move comes as Disney launched a personalized vertical video feed in the ESPN app last year.

The security lapse exposed personal information belonging to residents who received state benefits.

Nvidia is now requiring its customers in China to pay upfront in full for its H200 AI chips even as approval Stateside and from Beijing remains uncertain.

Snowflake is bolstering its data stack to make the platform better suited to the sheer volume of data produced by AI agents.

District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said there was evidence suggesting OpenAIs leaders made assurances that its original nonprofit structure would be maintained. The case will go to trial in March.

Spangle has raised $15 million in a Series A round to expand its AI-generated shopping experiences.

Apple expects the transition to take 24 months

Ford says the new generation of BlueCruise will be 30% cheaper to build than the current technology.

Bonatsos spent 15 years at GC, and until last year led the firm's seed investing strategy.

Larry Page is reportedly moving assets out of California over concern the state will vote in a tax on billionaires.

Several viral posts noticed that Artisan was banned. But the CEO tells us it wasn't for the reasons many thought.

At CES 2026, Anthony Wood, Roku's founder, chairman, and CEO, offered a hint about the future of the company's newest streaming channel, Howdy, and its ambition to become a broader competitor in the market.

The feature, which is expected to roll out in the coming weeks, will offer a dedicated space for conversations with ChatGPT about health.

The 25-year-old firm is an early investor in Anduril, Applied Intuition, and Runway AI.

Discord reportedly filed confidential IPO paperwork and has pinned its hopes on a debut in March.

VC firms DST Global and Iconiq are piling into e-commerce startup Swap Commerce, which is going up against Shopify.

Vanessa Larco,partner atPremiseand former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of consumer AI. Larco, whos been investing in consumer and prosumer for years, thinks were about to see a shift in how consumers spend time online, with AI powering concierge-like services. The question is, will legacy consumer products like WebMD and []

Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise $10 billion at a $350 billion valuation, marking its third mega-round in a year.

Skylight, known for its digital picture frame, has a new digital product that puts software and AI at the center.

Google Classroom now offers a Gemini-powered tool that generates podcast-style audio lessons for teachers to deepen engagement with students.

Caterpillar is piloting Cat AI, a system of AI agents in one of its excavators built on Nvidia's physical AI platform.

Quilt's heat pumps are built containing a suite of sensors, which have delivered mountains of data that allow its engineers to wring added performance out of its systems.

You can choose a tag that gives others in the group chat more context about who you are.

You can tap a friends listening activity to play the track, save it, open the menu, or react with an emoji.

The studio's board unanimously rejected Paramount Skydance's revised $108.4 billion bid, calling the proposal a leveraged buyout that would saddle the company with $87 billion in debt.

Spotify is dropping the minimum episode requirement to three, minimum consumption hours to 2,000, and engaged audience member threshold to 1,000 over the last 30 days.

Articul8's valuation for its current funding round marks a roughly fivefold increase since its Series A.

Once users complete an age check, they can access age-based chat, which means they can only communicate with others in a similar age group.

Calacanis, General Catalyst's Taneja, and McKinsey's Sternfels discussed how AI is reshaping technology and the labor force.

Chinese officials are reportedly reviewing whether the Meta deal violates technology export controls, potentially giving Beijing leverage it wasn't initially perceived as having.

CES 2026is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of daysoccupied bypress conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMDand previews from Sundays Unveiled event. As has been the case for the past two years at CES, AI is at the forefront of []

The most surprising part is that the plastic isn't the biggest problem.

When fake content goes viral, the damage has already been done, even if the post is debunked.

Mentee Robotics was co-founded by Mobileye president Amnon Shashua.

Nvidia is among the many investors, but xAI has not disclosed if these investments come in the form of equity or debt.

Our children cannot be used as lab rats for Big Tech to experiment on, Senator Steve Padilla said. He just introduced a bill to ban AI chatbots in toys until safety regulations are developed.

From an AI panda pet to an anime girl hologram for your desk, here are the wildest products at CES 2026.

Intel has been building chips designed for gaming PCs for years but the company is now moving into handheld devices too.

LMArena, which started as a UC Berkeley research project, has raised about $250 million total and become a unicorn in about seven months.

Meta had originally planned to launch the glasses in France, Italy, Canada, and the U.K. in early 2026.

The new Ring Sensors can detect motion, openings, glass breakage, and smoke, and can also monitor carbon monoxide levels, leaks, temperature changes, and air quality.