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Kofi Ampadu, the partner at a16z who led the firm's Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund and program, has left the firm.

If co-founder Lachy Groom has any doubts, he doesnt show it. Hes working with people who've been working on this problem for decades and who believe the timing is finally right, which is all he needs to know.

This isn't the first time in recent memory that OnlyFans has been in talks to sell off its business.

The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new shell again. After briefly rebranding as Moltbot, it has now picked OpenClaw as its new name.

The hacker allegedly developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold them to several countries, including an unnamed central African government, the U.K., and the United States.

Since the feature's launch in 2018, users haven't been able to remove themselves from someone else's Close Friends list.

The company is trying to take advantage of President Donald Trump's desire to return astronauts to the lunar surface by the end of his term.

To unpack what SpaceXs IPO chatter means, how private liquidity works before a debut, and what investors are looking for in todays pre-IPO giants, we spoke with Greg Martin, managing director at Rainmaker Securities, a broker-dealer specializing in secondary share transactions for late-stage private companies.

Self-driving truck startupWaabis billion-dollar fundraiseisntjust about trucks. The deal, for $750 million up front plus another $250 million from Uber tied to deployment milestones, marks a major expansion into robotaxis for the company founded by former Uber AI chief Raquel Urtasun. It also feels like another chip from Uber on theautonomous vehicleroulette table. With more []

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The profitable life-insurance platform was one of the first major tech companies to test the 2026 public markets.

Growth in regions like China and India are credited with pushing Apple's phone sales higher than ever.

One intrepid Morgan Stanley analyst dared to ask how Apple will make money on its AI investments. The answer will not shock you.

This merger would bring the Grok chatbot, Starlink satellites, and SpaceX rockets together under one corporation.

If a deal materializes, it would mean Amazon is backing competing startups in the race for AI supremacy.

Activists behind the general strike are calling for o work, no school, and no shopping amid a push to defund ICE, which has escalated raids in U.S. cities, killing several people, including two U.S. citizens earlier this month in Minneapolis.

Microsoft says its own chip leapfrogs those made by other cloud providers like Amazon and Google. But it needs more.

The fintech giant said it plans to seek recoupment of any expenses from its firewall provider SonicWall after a 2025 data breach exposed customer firewall configurations.

With Microsoft spending many billions on data centers, and rumors that no one is using its AI, CEO Satya Nadella shared some usage numbers.

This merger would bring the Grok chatbot, Starlink satellites, and SpaceX rockets together under one corporation.

Q.ai is an Israeli startup specializing in imaging and machine learning, particularly technologies that enable devices to interpret whispered speech and enhance audio in noisy environments.

Waymo's SFO win comes as the company faces criticism and concerns about safety in some of the cities it operates.

Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play around with Project Genie, which is powered by a combination of Googles latest world model Genie 3, its image generation model Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini.

Sora's mobile app downloads fell 45% in January, and consumer spending dropped.

Originally, these music publishers had filed a lawsuit against Anthropic over its use of about 500 copyrighted works.

With the highest global usage of Gemini for learning, India is emerging as a key market shaping Google's approach to AI in education.

A new AI lab called Flapping Airplanes launched yesterday, and a Sequoia partner has an interesting take on why they stand out.

Energy storage products like the Megapack, Megablock, and Powerwall drove

Spotify users can now share the podcasts, playlists, and audiobooks they're listening to with up 10 people.

The new security feature makes it more difficult for police and malicious hackers to obtain a person's precise location data from a cell phone company.

The child, whose age is not known, sustained minor injuries according to Waymo. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating.

The $250 million Series B was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Picture Capital.

Halide also released a public preview of its up coming app Halide Mark III.

The reported financial losses follow a series of layoffs at the VR unit.

30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from a US company.

SpaceX eyes June for IPO to align with Musk's birthday and the planets.

Apples Creator Studio Pro leverages AI to help creators with tedious taskslike finding clips or building slideswithout trying to do the work for them

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A report cited officials as saying that Homeland Security sought to determine if there was any harm to government security as a result of the lapse.

ASMLs record orders show chipmakers are still betting big on AI data centers.

Investors including a16z are betting that nuclear industry suppliers will be the big winners of the AI demand-driven nuclear renaissance.

LinkedIn is partnering with Descript, Lovable, Replit, and Relay.app at launch

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Samsung said that the upcoming feature will let you protect selected parts of the screen like notification popup area.

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with one addressing concerns publicly and the other in an internal message.

This is Amazon's second layoff after the company cut 14,000 corporate jobs in October.

Google is the latest investor to back Redwood Materials as the battery recycling startup scales a new energy storage venture to power AI data centers and other industrial sites.

The social media company's smartglasses are set to be released to the public later this year.

Waabi has secured a $750 million Series C round to accelerate autonomous trucking, and another roughly $250 million commitment from Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis exclusively on its platform.

Google's launch of practice tests for JEE follows its recent move to offer full-length SAT practice tests in Gemini.