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Eager to find more public AI-related companies that may do as well as Nvidia, Wall Street investors think they've found a winner with Micron.

For some people, the ice in a beverage is almost as important as the drink itself. Thats the audience Govee had in mind when designing its latest ice maker, the GoveeLife Smart Nugget Ice Maker Pro.This $500 premium smart home gadget is aimed at those who crave whats called the good ice, the soft, chewable []

Dilip Asbe said that newer UPI apps could be more competitive with a viable commercial model

Instagram users could soon see more ways to tune their content.

Not everyone is buying Elon Musks vision for orbital data centers.

When confronted with cancer, Connor Christou fed everything tied tied to his regime blood results, scan data, wearable output, journal entries into Claude.

New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.

Over 100 companies and government agencies are reportedly authorized to use Mythos 5, including their non-American employees.

Mesh came out of stealth in February with a $50 million Series A.

General Atlantic has tapped tennis legend Novak Djokovic to serve as a global strategic advisor.

We dont believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default, says OpenAI. It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber defenders, and global partners who need them.

TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.

AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.

Peter Diamandis is the latest tech executive to argue that global surveillance will make the world a better place, following Larry Ellison's comments in 2024.

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Aseon Labs, which came out of Y Combinator's 2026 spring cohort, has raised $10 million from Crane Venture Partners and others.

penAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of to the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to.

YouTube Shorts is getting a makeover.

Base Power is skipping the PJM's troubled interconnection queue by placing its batteries at people's homes, offering backup services in exchange.

Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.

General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.

Un-0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.

Market research company Klue told customers that it believes the hacking group that stole their data is now deleting it. The company, however, warned about a second group of hackers wanting ransom.

General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.

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Amazons latest India investment comes as global tech companies race to expand AI infrastructure in the country.

Security researchers found evidence that Russian authorities hacked the iPhone of a political opponent using a phone-unlocking device made by Cellebrite, even after the company said it would stop selling to Putins government.