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Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play around with Project Genie, which is powered by a combination of Googles latest world model Genie 3, its image generation model Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini.

Sora's mobile app downloads fell 45% in January, and consumer spending dropped.

Originally, these music publishers had filed a lawsuit against Anthropic over its use of about 500 copyrighted works.

With the highest global usage of Gemini for learning, India is emerging as a key market shaping Google's approach to AI in education.

A new AI lab called Flapping Airplanes launched yesterday, and a Sequoia partner has an interesting take on why they stand out.

Energy storage products like the Megapack, Megablock, and Powerwall drove

Spotify users can now share the podcasts, playlists, and audiobooks they're listening to with up 10 people.

The new security feature makes it more difficult for police and malicious hackers to obtain a person's precise location data from a cell phone company.

The child, whose age is not known, sustained minor injuries according to Waymo. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating.

The $250 million Series B was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Picture Capital.

Halide also released a public preview of its up coming app Halide Mark III.

The reported financial losses follow a series of layoffs at the VR unit.

30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from a US company.

SpaceX eyes June for IPO to align with Musk's birthday and the planets.

Apples Creator Studio Pro leverages AI to help creators with tedious taskslike finding clips or building slideswithout trying to do the work for them

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A report cited officials as saying that Homeland Security sought to determine if there was any harm to government security as a result of the lapse.

ASMLs record orders show chipmakers are still betting big on AI data centers.

Investors including a16z are betting that nuclear industry suppliers will be the big winners of the AI demand-driven nuclear renaissance.

LinkedIn is partnering with Descript, Lovable, Replit, and Relay.app at launch

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Samsung said that the upcoming feature will let you protect selected parts of the screen like notification popup area.

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with one addressing concerns publicly and the other in an internal message.

This is Amazon's second layoff after the company cut 14,000 corporate jobs in October.

Google is the latest investor to back Redwood Materials as the battery recycling startup scales a new energy storage venture to power AI data centers and other industrial sites.

The social media company's smartglasses are set to be released to the public later this year.

Waabi has secured a $750 million Series C round to accelerate autonomous trucking, and another roughly $250 million commitment from Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis exclusively on its platform.

Google's launch of practice tests for JEE follows its recent move to offer full-length SAT practice tests in Gemini.

Users can describe their edits in natural language to modify an image.

Shadowfax shares fell about 9% on theirdebut, valuing the logistics firm near its last private valuation.

ByteDance, TikToks Chinese parent company, recently established a separate American entity to run the apps U.S. operations. This restructuring aims to separate U.S. TikTok from its Chinese parent, addressing concerns about data privacy and foreign control. The move came after years of pressure from lawmakers, who feared the Chinese governments potential access to Americans data. []

Personal AI assistant Moltbot formerly Clawdbot has gone viral in a matter of weeks. But theres more you should know before jumping on the bandwagon.

By Rotation, one of the U.K.s most popular peer-to-peer fashion rental platforms, is partnering with Uber to deliver ski clothes.

This is a race series for software programmers and the brainchild of founder Palmer Luckey, he tells TechCrunch.

Bluesky is teasing new features and improvements ranging from the Discover feed to video support.

Anthropic looks to raise $20 billion at more than $300 billion valuation, according to reports.

The lawsuit, filed in 2023, alleged that Amazon caused substantial unjustified monetary losses for consumers who returned an item but were still charged for it.

Jury selection begins Tuesday as this case moves closer to trial.

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with one addressing concerns publicly and the other in an internal message.

Gemini 3 Pro and other AI tools are now available globally through the Google AI Plus plan, which is $7.99 per month in the United States.

OpenAI has launched a new scientific workspace program called Prism, which integrates AI into existing standards for composing research papers.

European governments are looking to move away from U.S. tech and reclaim their digital sovereignty at a time of unpredictability and volatility in the United States.

Data collected and analyzed by Obi suggest a shift is underway.

Pornhub parent company Aylo will restrict access from U.K. users, rather than comply with age verification mandates, which the company said it believes have not succeeded in promoting online safety.

Uber is not developing its own robotaxis again; instead it plans to collect and offer data. It's a bet that more volume will help autonomous vehicle partners solve the weirdest edge cases.

SpotDraft now processes over 1 million contracts annually using its AI tool, with contract volumes up 173% year-over-year.

Edenlux builds wearable tech to protect and train your eyes, inspired by its founders personal vision recovery.

In the coming months, Meta is going to explore a premium experience on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp that gives users access to special features and more control over how they share and connect, while keeping the core experiences free.

Many members of the international games industry are skipping the 2026 Game Developers Conference because of the growing ICE presence and other concerns.

Unwavering Trump loyalist and VC Keith Rabois caused his colleague and his firm's founder to distance themselves from his comments on ICE.