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Some found out they didn't qualify for WARN Act protections like two-months notice because the company had classified them as remote workers.

The invisible force behind all of this is no mystery to anyone paying attention to the city's tech economy. San Francisco is home to some of the most valuable private companies in the world, and their employees have been quietly accumulating and, increasingly, cashing out fortunes.

The Clips feed aims to enable discovery by offering users a scrollable feed with short snippets of shows and movies.

Intel's stock has risen a stunning 490% over the past year, a bet by Wall Street that may be running well ahead of the company's actual turnaround.

CloudFlare announced its first large-scale layoff. CEO Matthew Prince says because of AI efficiency gains, the company doesn't need as many support roles.

More than 500 people will be affected by the closures.

The VC firm, which focuses on mothers as consumers, raised a $10 million debut fund.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Avride after identifying more than a dozen crashes and one minor injury.

A report by Polands top intelligence agency accused Russia of sabotage and hacking activities against the countrys military and civilian infrastructure.

Former cybersecurity executive Peter Williams stole several surveillance and hacking tools and sold them for $1.3 million to a Russian broker that works with Putins government.

The initial set of files housed on the site will include those containing unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire U.S. government. The materials have been reviewed for security purposes, but many have ot yet been analyzed for resolution of any anomalies, the Department's statement read.

Truecaller's ad revenue declined by 44%, leading to the layoffs.

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After years of hints and preparation, Lime plans to enter the public markets.

PJM Interconnection which oversees the grid for some of the densest data center developments on Earth wants to overhaul itself. Not everyone thinks it's up to the task.

Airbnb also said its customer support AI bot now handles 40% of issues without escalating to a human agent.

Like many AI companies automating work that humans currently do, Basata will eventually face a harder question about where the line is between augmenting workers and displacing them. For now, the founders say the administrative staff they work with aren't worried about that; they're more worried about drowning.

The company is reportedly in talks to raise another $750 million at a pre-money valuation of more than $40 billion. It last raised in November at $32 billion.

The new features could be handy for customer service systems, but OpenAI says they have applications that work across a variety of other fields, including education and creator platforms.

The company made a series of other announcements during earnings, including a new commercial contract, a pilot program in Canada, and a collaboratio

Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro, who took over for Bob Iger earlier this year, has emphasized his intent to streamline the Disney experience.

AI startup Pit is led by the co-founders of European scooter giant Voi and backed by a16z, which is leading the startups $16 million seed round.

The cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Instructure again, defacing the login pages of several Instructure customer schools with an extortion message.

Gusto has shared an impressive milestone on its actual revenue, not an ARR number that estimates future income.

The company is expanding its efforts to protect ChatGPT users in cases where conversations may turn to self-harm.

The new benchmark rating applies to 2026 Tesla Model Y vehicles assembled on or after November 12, 2025.

Perplexity's Personal Computer brings AI agents to your Mac, and is now open to everyone.

Elon Musk's legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab's founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence.

An unknown group of hackers is breaking into systems previously breached by the cybercrime group TeamPCP. Once inside, the hackers immediately kick out TeamPCP and remove its hacking tools from the victims systems.

Prediction market startup Kalshi has raised a $1 billion Series F round led by Coatue.

Melinda Lewison's departure raises questions about Bezos' support and involvement with the startup at a time when the Amazon founder is now apparently focused on robotics at his new startup, Project Prometheus.

Security researchers at Mozilla say Anthropic's Mythos has unearthed a wealth of high-severity bugs in Firefox.

The Gemini-powered health coach will act as a combination fitness coach, sleep expert, and health and wellness advisor.

The device comes with health and fitness tracking like 24/7 heart rate, heart rhythm monitoring with Afib alerts, SpO2, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep stages and duration, and more.

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Toronto police said this is the first known instance of an SMS blaster being used in Canada.

Skyroot's valuation has more than doubled since 2023 as the Indian rocket startup prepares for the country's first private orbital launch.

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Moonshot's annualized recurring revenue topped $200 million in April, driven by rapid growth in paid subscriptions and API usage.

Users will be able to create a podcast from Codex or Claude Code and import it to Spotify

Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is wrong.

The push for new data centers at Microsoft is putting one of the its key clean power goals at risk.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says more than 150,000 retail investors joined the fintechs new venture fund, which offers exposure to private tech companies like OpenAI, Stripe, Databricks, and Oura before they go public.

Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.

U.S. prosecutors said a ransomware gang fueled Russian government corruption, and allowed the gang's leaders to avoid paying taxes and dodge the country's military draft.

Braintrust, a startup that makes an operating system for engineers building AI software, notified customers that hackers broke into one of its Amazon cloud environments, and is asking customers to rotate their API keys.

The project would be a multi-phase, next-generation, vertically integrated semiconductor manufacturing and advanced computing fabrication facility, according to the proposal.

The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that trained on a fraction of the compute power and at a fraction of the cost of the big U.S. models like those from OpenAI and Anthropic.

The new feature is a small win for Android users, as it gives them more control over how much location data they share with websites.

While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries, this design choice could also prove chaotic.