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Google is integrating carrier-level filtering into RCS in India through a partnership with Airtel to strengthen protections against spam.

TechCrunch spoke with VCs to learn what investors aren't looking for in AI SaaS startups anymore.

By CEO Sam Altmans own admission, OpenAIs deal with the Department of Defense was definitely rushed, and the optics dont look good.

Honor first teased its Robot phone with a movable camera arm earlier this year. Ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, the Chinese company provided more details about the device, including how the robot can respond to different situations without commands. The company said that it is planning to launch this device in []

Honor also previewed battery tech that could take foldable batteries over 7,000 mAh mark

Anthropics chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the companys fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.

What's behind the SaaSpocalypse? It simply seems a new supreme has risen.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly. Now, in the absence of rules, there's not a lot to protect them.

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

Anthropics chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the companys fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.

Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.

OpenAI's CEO claims its new defense contract includes protections addressing the same issues that became a flashpoint for Anthropic.

We round up everything Xiaomi announced at its Mobile World Congress event.

Chinas push into humanoid robots is accelerating, with domestic firms shipping more units and iterating faster than U.S. competitors in a still-nascent market.

India, one of Supabases biggest markets, is seeing patchy access after a government block order.

The company said such trades violates its internal company policies about using confidential information for personal gain.

We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again, the president wrote in the post.

In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with nonconsensual nude images.

Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and who sets the rules for military AI.

OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding.

Suno lets users create music using natural language prompts, making it possible for people with little experience to generate audio with little effort.

As Netflix continues its live sports push, the company has partnered with Apple to air the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix.

Similar to the streaming giant's Music and Podcast Charts, the Audiobook Charts will be updated weekly and highlight the top audiobooks overall and by genre

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Zomato co-founder Deepinder Goyal's new wearable startup Temple has raised $54 million in a friends-and-family round at a post-money valuation of about $190 million.

The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.

Ultrahumans Ring Pro promises 15-day battery life and a $479 price tag as the wearables maker expands its health-tech push.

The new valuation is a 31% increase from $6.1 billion Plaid reached in April.

In a one-two punch of centibillion-dollar offers, the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery is over. David Ellison-owned Paramount will acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. Netflix has lost.

Jack Dorsey has long been an open admirer of Elon Musk. Now, it seems, he may have been taking notes.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that he cannot in good conscience accede to the Pentagon's demands to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems.

PayPal may not be in talks to be acquired, sources have told Semafor, after a previous news report that Stripe was sniffing around.

The deal paves the way for Form Energy to raise a new funding round before potentially going public next year.

Mark Zuckerberg was at Prada's fashion week event in Milan, leaving everyone to wonder if we're getting Meta AI glasses under the Prada brand.

The company's modular computer tiles offer a new vision for space data centers.

IDC says phone makers will ship only 1.12 billion smartphones as compared to 1.26 billion last year.

Mistral AI lands a partnership with Accenture, the consultant that has also recently announced partnerships with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.

Users who are part of the test can type DM me or Message me in a post or reply to automatically generate a hyperlink that invites others to start a private conversation with them.

Read AI is launching Ada, which can reply with your availability and extract answers from the company knowledge base and the web.

Bumble and other popular dating apps, like Match Group's Tinder and Hinge, have all embraced AI-powered features.

The suit said Walmart mislead drivers about their possible tips and would reduce their base pay, among other things.

Self-driving trucks startup Einride has raised an oversubscribed $113 million PIPE in advance of its SPAC merger scheduled for early 2026.

The U.S. government and its allies said hackers have been exploiting the newly identified bug in Cisco networking gear around the world for years, and urged organizations to patch.

A group of well-known open source programmers and a VC have launched the Open Source Endowment. They hope this new method will provide funding for good.

Google is making Nano Banana 2 a default model in Gemini app and in AI mode.

Tal Dilian and three other Intellexa executives were tried for their role in a scandal dubbed Greek Watergate, which dates back to 2022.

X has launched an expanded set of aspect ratio support for both image and video ads, so advertisers can now reuse assets they've created for other platforms.

The latest round of layoffs marks eBays third workforce reduction in the past three years.

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Trace is launching with $3 million in seed funding, including investment fromY Combinator, Zeno Ventures, Transpose Platform Management, Goodwater Capital, Formosa Capital, and WeFunder.