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a16z Speedrun, Ada Ventures, and Snowball VC have invested in Cascade's $3.5 million seed round.

Weve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.

WhatsApp on Apple CarPlay and Android Auto will let users hear and reply to messages, make calls, view their call history, and access favorite contacts hands-free and right from their car's screen.

Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, has raised $15M in a Series A round led by Insight Partners.

Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.

Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics to help companies measure training effectiveness.

Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.

The four-year-old firm's latest fund is 60% larger than its second vehicle announced 18 months ago.

Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.

OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.

Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.

Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies like Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, and TikTok to become all-purpose entertainment destinations instead.

Sila's fresh $300 million round will help it make enough of its silicon-carbon anode material to power more than 100,000 EVs.

The acquisition Einride's first as a publicly traded company will expand its EV-charging ecosystem as it works to scale its electric trucking business.

The new leasing program is a big change for the hardware company, and comes as it looks to raise prices on many of its products.

New data centers built through 2033 could consume as much electricity as India uses today.

The company didn't say how many are in each city, and has taken a far more cautious approach to scaling the network than CEO Elon Musk had promised.

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.

With the new Replace Audio, tool, users can update the music on their post at any time while keeping the post's existing likes, comments, shares, and reach intact.

With the new tools, parents and guardians will be able to view their teen's time spent on Threads, set daily time limits, adjust sleep mode, and manage their privacy settings.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could sanction Chinese open AI models over alleged IP theft, expanding the Trump administration's campaign to slow China's AI advances.

Light co-founder Kaiwei Tang helped create the Motorola Razr, and he's as surprised as anyone that over 20 years later, the flip phone is relevant again.

TikTok recently settled its portion of the case with the plaintiff ahead of a jury trial that starts next week in Los Angeles. YouTube has also reached a deal, leaving Meta as the only remaining defendant.

A hacker took names, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers who used AI music generator Suno.

Learn more about Paramount's planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery a historic Hollywood megadeal valued at $111 billion as it continues to develop.

The new U.K. government scrapped a digital ID program that millions of British people opposed, in place of a tax cut to tackle the cost of living.

Xteink makes its pocket-sized e-reader even better with a touchscreen and front light.

Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June

Maritime nuclear energy startup Bluecore Energy has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Slauson & Co.

Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.

The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.

The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.

The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.

Under the new system, the protocol will take a looser, stateless approach to session IDs on the server side, similar to how most ordinary websites already work.

X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.

Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.

The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

The lawsuit from the states alleges that the deal would harm movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and audiences.

Hugging Face is urging users to rotate any access tokens stored on the platform and review account activity.

Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by Ben Affleck.

Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan's entire tech ecosystem.

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.

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