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Apple will announce a new smart home hub on Tuesday called the HomeView, according to Bloombergs Mark Gurman. Over the past couple of years, weve seen There have been multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date. Gurman []

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On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.

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Learn more about Paramount's planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery a historic Hollywood megadeal valued at $111 billion as it continues to develop.

Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break

Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?

The startup says its fuel cells are super efficient and cut fuel costs during a time when the tech industry cant get enough electricity.

Cloudflare will use this acquisition to improve its Workers programming model and platform.

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We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

Elon Musk has accused Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani of blocking competition.

Keychron made a name for itself after launching on Kickstarter in 2017. Today, it offers the value K2 model as well as a variety of other versions, including one with an all-wood body.

TypeSafe AI raised $870 million in a round led by a16Z.

The day your loved one passes away, you also get this honorary badge of a project manager for a project you had no idea about, said founder Sara Tashakorinia.

Amazon says it willstop using NDAswhen negotiating data center deals with local governments, followingasimilar move from Microsoftearlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading tohundreds ofproposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco. Meanwhile, a wave of startups is betting that consumers will hand AI agents access []

For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.

The name change is enough for Germany's transport minister to start advocating for Europe-wide adoption of the driver assistance software.

Orkut's founder is now taking aim at algorithms and AI-generated content.

Moore sees a huge opportunity in consumer AI, particularly if the industry can tap into revenue streams beyond just subscriptions and API charges.

Automattic's interim chief financial officer Jeremy Klaperman has left the company less than a month after taking the role, TechCrunch has learned. Sources say his departure followed a demotion back to his previous position, marking another executive exit amid the organization's leadership turmoil.

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Flock would not say if CEO Garrett Langley would take a pay cut following the reduction in workforce.

Together, the awardees have donated nearly $6 billion to efforts tied to Trump and his administration.

A fictionalized Sam Bankman-Fried is coming to your TV screen on November 19.

Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix earlier this year, is proving he's more than just a Hollywood star.

The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.

Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its own workplace identity, complete with an email address.

Anthropic's updated usage policy explicitly prohibits users from repeatedly abusing Claude in extreme cases, though ordinary frustration and criticism are still allowed. The new rules also address election interference, deceptive campaigns, weapons software, and surveillance.

Richard Bronson, a former Stratton Oakmont partner who served time in federal prison for securities violations, has launched Commissary Club, a startup that uses AI to help people leaving prison find jobs, housing, community, and even dates.

Goodfire just launched what it says is a cheaper way to keep AI agents in check: instead of paying a second AI to read everything an agent does, its monitors peek inside the model while it works and only call in backup when something looks fishy.

The other firms being suspended from the program include Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro.

Is Ambani the real boss of India? Elon Musk asked as he questioned why Starlink has yet to launch its satellite internet service in the country.

New Yorks lawsuit against the company is one of more than two dozen cases brought by states accusing the social media giant of designing its platform to encourage addictive use among children.

The hackers alerted the fashion giant's customers through a push notification that said they had fully compromised the company's cloud storage.

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The company launched technology.spotify.com, a new site that will make its internal tech available to outsiders.

This is the first time the Alphabet-owned company has turned to debt financing.

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Googles new AI Edge Foresight app takes on Granola with an offline meeting note-taker that can transcribe conversations, generate notes, and answer questions using on-device AI.

The lineup includes three models: Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, Amazon Alexa Tablet 11, and Amazon Alexa Tablet 8.

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The two companies said on Thursday that they would begin testing Pony.ai's Gen-7 robotaxis in London in the coming weeks.

Vesta, an AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages, announced a $30 million round led by Conversion Capital.