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Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It's investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return.

Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam.

The transition has been expected for some time and ends one of the longer and more impactful runs a CEO has had at any company. Cook had inherited a company that many industry watchers and enthusiasts struggled to separate from its famed founder. What he leaves behind is a $4 trillion business with annual revenue that has more than quadrupled on his watch.

You can use the new tools to remove blemishes, refine skin texture, brighten eyes, or whiten teeth in photos.

This sentence construction (It's not just this it's that) has become so common in AI-generated writing that it's no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic it's almost a guarantee.

The hack against Kelp DAO is the largest crypto heist of the year so far.

The DDoS attack against Mastodon's flagship server comes less than a week after Bluesky was targeted with junk web traffic.

Nobody was hurt after an EF-1 tornado hit the part of the factory where the R2 SUV is supposed to be built.

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss OpenAI's latest acquisitions and whether they address wo big existential problems for the company.

A lot of AI startups exist partly because the foundation models haven't expanded into their category yet. As many jokingly acknowledge, that won't last forever.

The first major failure of Blue Origin's new heavy-launch system could create delays to its ambition to help NASA and the Trump administration return to the Moon.

The winning time is a massive improvement over last years race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40 minutes.

Fusion startups and investors risk deepening fissures if some key disagreements aren't settled amicably.

It's a major milestone for the company's new mega-rocket system, putting it in position to challenge SpaceX's dominance of the global launch market.

Tesla is expanding its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston, according to a social media post from the company. The post says simply that Robotaxi is now rolling out in Dallas & Houston and includes a 14-second video showing Tesla vehicles driving without human monitors or drivers in the front seat. The company now []

Conway wrote that he will be stepping back from some of my usual activities, but he will continue to support founders backed by his firm SV Angel.

In recent months, the company announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services to use Cerebras chips in Amazon data centers, as well as a deal with OpenAI reportedly worth more than $10 billion.

Despite recently being designated a supply-chain risk by the Pentagon, Anthropic is still talking to high-level members of the Trump administration.

New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting AI tools could be fueling a mobile software boom.

For most of its life, Airwallex and Stripe have mostly operated in different geographies, selling to different buyers. That's changing.

World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered anonymous verification project, is looking to expand its influence via a bevy of new partnerships.

Nicholas Moore hacked into three U.S. government networks using stolen credentials, and then bragged about it and posted victims' personal data on Instagram under the handle @ihackedthegovernment.

Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round.

There's a lot more code but it's a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting.

The company, which deploys AI-guided robot arms for food production, says it is looking to expand its services to provide for a broader array of customers.

The new returns feature is the company's latest effort to become an everything app.

The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily.

Some lawmakers are calling for widespread reforms following years of surveillance scandals and abuses across successive U.S. administrations. But even if the spy law known as Section 702 expires in April, the government's spy powers will not automatically lapse.

Although you can already track hotel prices at the city level, the new update lets you do so for a specific hotel that you're interested in.

Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET. on April 15.

Netflix is going to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed within its apps this month, and plans to use AI broadly for content creation and recommendations.

Users are fed up with misinformation and AI slop cluttering their feeds. SaySo is a new short-form video app that delivers news from vetted creators and journalists.

The San Francisco startup closed a Series C funding round led by Antonio Gracias' firm Valor, which is a major backer of xAI.

The fundraise is the first major capital raise under Sequoia's new leadership, with Alfred Lin and Pat Grady now serving as co-stewards of the 54-year-old firm.