Metas massive investment in Scale AI may be giving some of the startups biggest customers pause. Reuters reports that Google had planned to pay Scale AI $200 million this year but is now planning to cut ties with the startup and is having conversations with its competitors.

Alphabet-owned robotaxi company Waymo is limiting service due to Saturdays scheduled nationwide No Kings protests against President Donald Trump and his policies.

Welcome back to Week in Review! We have lots for you this week, including what came out of WWDC 2025; The Browser Company's AI browser; OpenAI's partnership with Mattel; and your iPad might finally be a true work machine.

Apples plans to improve App Store discoverability using AI tagging techniques are now available in the developer beta build of iOS 26. However, the tags do not appear on the public App Store as of yet, nor are they informing the App Store Search algorithm on the public store. Of course, with any upcoming App []

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Beleaguered genetic testing company 23andMe announced Friday that it has reached an agreement to sell itself to TTAM Research Institute, a nonprofit led by the company's co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki.

New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic from contributing to disaster scenarios, including the death or injury of more than 100 people, or more than $1 billion in damages. The passage of the RAISE Act represents a win for the AI []

The sales automation startup doubles its valuation a month after launching a tender offer at $1.5 billion.

Metas deal to sort-of but not really acquire AI startup Scale, giving it 49% ownership, is certainly unusual.

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Google Search is testing Audio Overviews for certain search queries, the company announced on Friday.

This visual overhaul gives us a glimpse into the design of Apple's rumored AR glasses, which will reportedly debut next year.

CTOs from companies including OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir make up this first cohort of CTOs in the Army Reserve.

Amazon and Talen revised an existing deal to buy power from the Susquehanna nuclear power plant.

This week brought us many reminders that no startup journey is linear but the next billion-dollar idea may only be one click away.

A list of AT Protocol-based, consumer-facing apps that are either built on top of Bluesky or its underlying protocol, allowing users to take back control over their social networking experiences and personal data.

Zevo is a new peer-to-peer car-sharing startup, which is broadly similar to Turo, but focused exclusively on electric vehicles.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he isn't confident that the U.S. will change its mind on chip export restrictions anytime soon.

Here are some of the top startups from Y Combinator's Spring 2025 Demo Day that caught investors' and our attention.

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Data-labeling firm Scale AI confirmed on Friday that it has received a significant investment from Meta that values the startup at $29 billion.

Lately, Felicis, like most VCs, has been all over AI. Its portfolio now includes, for example, Browser Use, Poolside, Runway, and Supabase.

Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.

Not only is Bluesky more than just a Twitter/X alternative, it's just one app in a wider social ecosystem built on open technology.

XGS Energy will build the new power plant in New Mexico.

Tesla alleges that Zhongjie Li stole confidential trade secrets and used them to launch a robotics startup a week after he left Tesla.

Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps like Spotify. It appears that a Google Cloud outage is at root of these other service disruptions. Google Cloud said it started investigating service issues affecting its customers at 11:46am PT. The company []

The Olto is the newest entry into the always-churning market for electric two-wheelers, and it will cost $3,495.

Canary, the hotel guest management platform, announced Thursday the raise of an $80 million Series D in a round led by Brighton Park Capital. Harman Singh Narula and childhood friend SJ Sawhney launched the company in 2018 to help hotels digitize and automate guest interactions. The company has raised nearly $180 million in funding to []

At WWDC 2025, Apple announced several AI features, such as a workout coach, live translation, and more.

Snapchat is introducing a suite of new tools and features to make it easier for creators to post and share content on its platform.

In 2016 when Chime desperately needed cash, over 100 VCs said no. One seed VC, took a chance and saved the company, co-founder Ryan King recalls.

The iPhone maker quietly updated a February security advisory to publicize a flaw that was used to hack at least two journalists in Europe.

Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toymaking and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging.

The Chapter 11 filing will let Powin continue operating while it restructures its debt.

The 4-year-old startup nabbed a $20 million Series B from SignalFire.

Instagram is finally going to let users rearrange their grid, and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without having the content appear in users' feeds.

iPadOS 26 makes the iPad function more like a MacBook, rather than a giant iPhone, making it a boon for productivity.

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The company, based in the U.K., offers a productivity suite to streamline the legal drafting and review process.

Warp can't automate long-haul trucking or short-range delivery, so it's working on what it can potentially change:the workflows inside its warehouses.

WordPress.com owner Automattic has added another communication-focused startup to its lineup: relationship-management app Clay.

A concept Landbase's CEO calls digital trust led nearly 130 VCs to pursue the vibe GTM startup.

A new analysis done by ride-hailing aggregator Obi shows Waymos cost more especially on shorter trips. They also have longer wait times.

The confirmation of two hacked victims further deepens an ongoing spyware scandal that, for now, appears largely focused on the Italian government.

Spanish startup Multiverse Computing announced that it raised an enormous Series B round on the strength of a technology it calls CompactifAI.

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With the new ChatGPT integration, users will be able to access more styles that move beyond the emoji-like creations that Image Playground has become known for.

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