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The deal comes a few weeks after Oura postponed its up to $2.2 billion IPO indefinitely, citing uncertainty in the IPO market.
PSI used an unreleased Anthropic model to answer a fundamental question about quantum computing that scientists have pursued for nearly two decades.
OpenAI is looking to make ChatGPT a more robust consumer discovery engine, and a host of new features seek to empower businesses to help it do that.
Google's Pixel Tag lets you track lost items with your Android device, similar to Apple's AirTag.
Amazon-owned Ring is pushing into robotics with the launch of a home security drone and a rolling robot designed to patrol and protect businesses.
Hugging Face executive Irene Solaiman warns that growing cyberattacks on open AI platforms could force tighter security restrictions, threatening the accessibility that makes open-source communities valuable to developers worldwide.
Otter AI just added support for 27 languages and revealed an upcoming feature that can follow along if speakers switch between languages.
The AI company is expected to set its valuation range this week, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The PR firm was enlisted shortly after an Oct. 2025 New York Times report described Alice Huang's business dealings with Jensen Huang, Wired reported.
Exclusive: Wyndham left a hardcoded credential in its customer app, allowing anyone to access customer data. The hotel giant wouldn't say if it has the ability to check for any past unauthorized access.
Six months before Nvidia's spy scandal erupted, Culper Research was already questioning Jensen Huang's unusually close relationship with a Chinese executive.
Nvidias stock slid more than 4% after its board opened an investigation into Jensen Huangs relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and one securities law expert says the companys earlier insistence that it was all normal could turn into a very expensive problem.
Geothermal company Fervo is targeting natural gas as it brings down geothermal drilling costs at its 8.4 GW resource in Utah.
The Nvidia CEO also pulled out of an Anthropic event earlier.
YouTube will resume sharing streaming data with Billboard in 2027 after changes to the chart formula give more weight to free, ad-supported music streams.
Anthropic says the new models show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision, as well as in communicating more clearly with users.
Nominal, a startup that offers an AI platform for hardware engineering and claims Anduril as a major customer, has raised another big round of financing that triples its valuation.
France's foreign minister blamed Iran for launching at least two waves of cyberattacks targeting industrial refrigerated and freezer units across France and wider Europe.
At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna.
The update to Waymo's self-driving system was rolled out nearly a year ago.
Automattic aims to compete with likes of Lovable with Spacefast
The new music discovery app lets users scroll through 10-to-30-second snippets of songs, comment, and share with friends.
Elon Musk defended the company's decision to stop making the Cybertruck, which will go out of production in around 8 months.
This will be the fourth Texas city in which Tesla will launch robotaxis.
It's hard to break the cycle of doomscrolling, but there are plenty of apps that can help you spend more time on content thats engaging and productive.
In a memo to the company, Huang admitted that he had an affair.
Snap's Specs, which have been in development for many years now, are going to market this fall. Will they be a hit with users?
Mystery solved: Coordinated power drops have been haunting power grid worldwide, but a team of researchers in Germany found the culprit.
A new report claims Sequoia's recent changes undo the legacy of the firm's former steward.
SNL seems to have its knives out for tech executives.
Stephen Ward, a former Secret Service agent and Home Depot CISO, is preparing a second fund of roughly $250 million for Brightmind Partners.
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A memo circulated earlier this year reportedly claimed that Chinas Ministry of State Security recruited a female technology executive to spy on Nvidia's CEO.
As parents look for alternatives to unrestricted smartphones, a growing number of companies are building phones designed specifically for kids, from feature-limited mobile devices to minimalist home phones.
The announcement comes barely more than a week after hackers stole $6.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency from Binance users.
Sequoia pioneered the scouts model and many VC firms followed suit, but a consensus now seems to be forming that the model has reached limits in its current form.
After spending two years getting cozy with the White House, Big Tech is suddenly trying to make friends with Democrats, and the open question is whether that image makeover can hold up against what states, local communities, and the markets are about to do.

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