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Emails published by the Justice Department revealed cybersecurity veteran Vincenzo Iozzo emailed, and arranged to meet, Jeffrey Epstein multiple times between 2014 and 2018.

The EPA's new rule seeks to undo a 2009 finding that allowed the federal government to regulate six greenhouse gases.

WP Engine claims Automattic was going to target more hosting companies with royalty fees.

Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.

OpenAI calls the new coding tool the first milestone in its relationship with the chipmaker.

CEO Chris Urmson called it a superhuman moment, adding that Auroras trucks can now carry freight 1,000 miles in 15 hours faster than what a human driver can legally accomplish.

Coupangs massive data breach has sparked U.S. investor lawsuits against the South Korean government over alleged discrimination

The show is expected to run for four seasons, with the possibility of spin-offs, a prequel, and foreign versions.

In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson cited reports from Media Research Center, a right-leaning think tank, which accused Apple of excluding right-leaning outlets from the top 20 articles in the Apple News feed.

The San Francisco-based startup says its AI-first approach has allowed it to scale faster.

Apple has been promising a new-and-improved, cutting-edge, AI-powered Siri since it first unveiled Apple Intelligence in 2024.

Uber Eats launched a new AI feature, Cart Assistant, that can automatically add items to your cart based on text or image prompts.

Enterprise AI is shifting fast from chatbots that answer questions to systems that actually do the work across an organization. But who will own the AI layer that powers all of it? Glean, which started as an enterprise search product, has evolved into what it calls an AI work assistant, aiming tosit underneath other AI []

Critical security flaws targeting Windows and Office users allow hackers to take complete control of a victim's computer by clicking a malicious link or opening a file. Patch now.

TechCrunch spoke to a16z partner Joshua Lu for some tips on standing out for the Speedrun program.

The new feature allows users to share payment requests in a variety of digital settings.

A new device from eero will keep you online even if your ISP goes down.

Nominations for the 2026 Joseph C. Belden Innovation Award are open, inviting SMBs with groundbreaking innovation a chance to win scaling opportunities. Last day to apply is February 13.

An investment group is trying to sway Netflix shareholders to reject the WBD deal in favor of Paramount.

The former boss of the L3Harris-owned hacking and surveillance tools maker Trenchant faces nine years in prison for selling several exploits to a Russian broker, which counts the Russian government among its customers.

A 1 Gw orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4Balmost three times its ground-bound equivalent.

Google is changing how developers get access to new APIs and features of the latest version.

The platform's new feature lets users tell Threads what they temporarily want to see more or less of in their feed.

Amanda Silver is a corporate vice president at Microsofts CoreAI division, where she works on tools for deploying apps and agentic systems within enterprises.

UpScrolled, a social network that surged in the wake of the U.S. TikTok deal, has seen an uptick in harmful content, including usernames and hashtags that contain racial slurs.

At least nine engineers, including two cofounders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musks AI company amid mounting controversy.

Inertia Enterprises will use the Series A investment to build one of the world's most powerful lasers, a key part of its power plant design.

Upside Robotics builds autonomous solar-powered robots that can help farmers reduce their fertilizer use by 70%.

The startup, Monaco, has come out of stealth as an AI-native all-in-one CRM plus more system backed by names like the Collison brothers and Garry Tan.

The expansion will cover customers in newly served states such as Idaho and Massachusetts.

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TikTok's new Local Feed will show you nearby shopping, dining, events, news, and more.

The round was led by FPV Ventures co-founder and managing partner Wesley Chan.

Apptronik has sold another $520 million in a Series A extension to existing and new investors like Google and Mercedes-Benz.

Complyance raised a $20 million Series A led by GV for its AI-native compliance platform.

A new company called Meridian.AI has emerged from stealth with an IDE-based approach to agentic financial modeling.

Samsung is going to launch S26 lineup just before Mobile World Congress (MWC).

According to The New York Times, which reports that it heard the meeting, Musk told employees that xAI needs a lunar manufacturing facility, a factory on the moon that will build AI satellites and fling them into space via a giant catapult.

The executive has denied the allegation that she engaged in discrimination.

A new report claims the e-commerce giant is looking to create a pipeline of licensable content between media publishers and AI companies.

Czech ice dancers Katerina Mrazkova and Daniel Mrazek are learning the hard way that LLMs sometimes spit out straight-up plagiarism.

Robert Playter announcd he is leaving Boston Dynamics after 30 years at the company in various roles, including six years as CEO.

After numerous news reports documented Masha Bucher's close business and personal relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Bucher took to X to explain.

The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena powers to target people critical of the Trump administration.

Out of the twelve-person founding team, only seven are still at the company (counting Elon).

Rivian, along with other automakers, has been under pressure to make the manual door releases easier to access. The new R2 SUV does that here's how.

Facebook's new AI features let users animate their profile pics, restyle their Stories and Memories, and add backgrounds to text posts.

The fake goods crisis cuts two ways. Luxury brands lose more than $30 billion a year to counterfeits, while buyers in the booming $210 billion second-hand market have no reliable way to verify that what theyre purchasing is genuine. Veritas wants to solve both problems with a solution that combines custom hardware and software. The []

The Singaporean government said the China-backed hackers gained limited access to critical systems run by the country's top four telecommunication giants, but said they did not disrupt services or steal customers' data.

Vega Security raised $120 million, bringing its valuation to $700 million, in a round led by Accel. The company aims to rethink how enterprises detect cybersecurity threats.