Hike, which started as a WhatsApp rival before pivoting to real-money gaming, is now sunsetting after India's sweeping ban.

Transit tech software startup Via had its IPO debut on Friday, starting at below offering price before rising to close at nearly $50.

Rainmaker wants to use flares to seed clouds the airline pilots' union says it won't be safe.

A three-year-old startup providing data for AI labs is trying to fill the gap in the market left by Scale AI.

It's a major change that paves the way for electric air taxi startups to perform more robust demonstrations of their technology before they begin any commercial flights.

Decentralized X alternative Mastodon adds support for quote posts, but with additional controls.

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Quilt's software update unlocked an additional 20% heating and cooling capacity for all of its heat pumps, including those installed in customers' homes.

Microsoft will escape largely unscathed from a major antitrust investigation by the European Commission that could have resulted in billion-dollar fines for the tech giant.

The robotics startup market has matured over the last decade and the cost to produce robots has gone down significantly.

The federal consumer regulator seeks to learn about how AI companies evaluate the safety of their chatbots.

Google also announced on that it's updating the Promotion category in Gmail to allow users to sort by most relevant promotion emails.

The French government says Apple sent out threat notifications to customers alerting them to spyware attacks earlier in September.

Google Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to the popular spreadsheet-database hybrid Airtable, is shutting down. The app will not be supported after December 16, 2025.

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Zaslav also said that the streaming service's crackdown on passwords will be coming in the future.

Kids are making a mark in the U.K.'s cybersecurity arena, and not in the way their parents want them to.

Box released a new set of AI tools at its Boxworks conference on Thursday, filling out CEO Aaron Levie's vision for an AI-led transformation of the enterprise.

As Breakthrough Energy Fellows welcomes a new cohort of 22 startups, it is also diversifying its portfolio to include more global founders.

On its official page detailing the features available on iOS 26, the company said EU residents or those with EU Apple IDs won't be able to use live translation, which is powered by Apple Intelligence and will also be coming to AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2.

If SB 243 is enacted, California would become the first state to require operators to implement safety protocols for AI companions and hold companies legally accountable if their chatbots fail to meet those standards.

The AI-powered search startup's valuation jumped from $18 billion two months earlier.

In a blog post shared Wednesday, Mira Murati's startup offered a rare glimpse into some of work its doing to improve AI models.

Here's how you can turn off autoplaying videos and GIFs on Facebook, Instagram, X, Twitter, and Threads.

Anduril has landed a lucrative contract and is bringing its uncrewed undersea vehicle Ghost Shark to Australian waters next year.

Of the 34.3 million shares Klarna sold, only 5 million were sold by the company, it said. The rest were sold by existing investors.

OpenAI and Oracle reportedly signed a deal that includes OpenAI buying $300 billion of compute over a five-year span.

YouTube's multi-language audio feature is rolling out to millions of creators, helping them reach a wider global audience.

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It's a big step in the company's ambitous plan to electrify all watercraft.

Now, users will be notified when they've interacted with a post on Facebook, Instagram, or Threads that receives a Community Note. Plus, anyone can now request a note or rate a note if it's been helpful to them.

Anthropic reported a service outage impacting APIs, Console, and Claude earlier this afternoon.

While Sony has long offered parental controls, the new app brings all of these tools into one dedicated place for easier access.

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Replit's annualized revenue has skyrocketed from$2.8 millionto$150 millionin less than a year, it said.

Bluesky says the age-verification laws strike he right balance, so it won't have to exit the states as it did in Mississippi.

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Reddit is introducing new Publisher tools under Reddit Pro.

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LeydenJar raised 13 million along with 10 million from a U.S. consumer electronics company to scale production of its silicon anode material.

Oboe is a new AI-powered learning platform that lets you create personalized courses on any topic with a prompt.

The announcement comes as Bending Spoons was interested in a potential takeover of Vimeo as far back as March 2024.

The cyberattack at Jaguar Land Rover, which began on September 2, has ground vehicle assembly lines to a standstill.

A new system called Real Simple Licensing would allow AI companies to license training data at a massive scale if they're willing to pay for it.

Lyft is trying to carve out a presence in the autonomous vehicle market. But the ride-hailing company still lags far behind Uber.

Rendezvous Robotics wants to scale the space industry by changing the way structures are built on orbit.

But it's not quite a commercial service just yet. These rides are free for now.

Born, maker of cute virtual pet Pengu, believes the current chatbot landscape isn't the final form factor for AI friends. The Berlin-based startup raised $15M on the idea that AI companions should have a social component.

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