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SpotDraft now processes over 1 million contracts annually using its AI tool, with contract volumes up 173% year-over-year.

Edenlux builds wearable tech to protect and train your eyes, inspired by its founders personal vision recovery.

In the coming months, Meta is going to explore a premium experience on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp that gives users access to special features and more control over how they share and connect, while keeping the core experiences free.

Many members of the international games industry are skipping the 2026 Game Developers Conference because of the growing ICE presence and other concerns.

Unwavering Trump loyalist and VC Keith Rabois caused his colleague and his firm's founder to distance themselves from his comments on ICE.

The YouTubers claim Snap, like others, used AI datasets meant for research and academic use to train its AI models.

From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.

UpScrolled is a social network that pledges to remain impartial to political agendas. It blends familiar features from Instagram and X, letting users share photos, videos, and text posts, discover new content, and send direct messages.

A company called Life Electric Vehicle Holdings has emerged as the top bidder for Rad Power's assets. It's not clear what the company plans to do with them, though.

Europe-based venture fund 2150 raised the money to invest in climate tech startups that help solve cities' carbon footprint.

The London High Court awarded the London-based satirist and human rights activist Ghanem Al-Masarir more than 3 million, after finding the Saudi government hacked his phone and was likely behind a physical attack targeting him in London.

More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities.

Maia comes equipped with over 100 billion transistors, delivering over 10 petaflops in 4-bit precision and approximately 5 petaflops of 8-bit performance a substantial increase over its predecessor.

CoreWeave will also integrate Nvidia's products across its platform, including the new Rubin chip architecture.

The launch date had been up in the air after the rocket's booster stage suffered an explosion during testing in November.

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Apple's new AirTag is louder and supports better finding at longer distances.

Nvidia announced three new AI weather tools today. Together, they promise to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts while also making them accessible to more users.

British startup Synthesia, whose AI platform helps companies create interactive training videos, has raised a $200 million Series E round of funding that brings its valuation to $4 billion up from $2.1 billion just a year ago.

The nozzle is just the beginning what company founder Sunny Sethi calls he muscle on the ground.

Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musks xAI is beginning to appear in answers from ChatGPT.

Some of the major players in science fiction and pop culture are taking firmer stances against generative AI.

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Were about to get our first real look at the results of the recently announced AI partnership between Apple and Google.

Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.

If your Gmail account doesnt seem to be working properly today, youre not alone.

If your Gmail account doesnt seem to be working properly today, youre not alone.

There were times at this weeks meeting of the World Economic Forum when Davos seemed transformed into a high-powered tech conference.

Itsgetting hard to tell which AI labs. areactually tryingto make money. We created a rating system to help sort it out.

PopWheels realized its battery swapping network could be used for more than food delivery workers who need to charge their e-bikes. Now, its planning for an aggressive rollout this summer.

Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap, who previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, tells TechCrunch that her San Francisco-based team has already joined Harvey, while the startup's India-based engineers will come onboard once Harvey establishes a Bangalore office.

Apple shipped a record 14 million iPhones in India in 2025 and gained market share.

TikTok users are freaking out over a mention of immigration status data collection, but lawyers explain the disclosure is related to state privacy laws.

Yann LeCun's new venture, AMI Labs, has drawn intense attention since the AI scientist left Meta to found it.

The NTSB joins the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in investigating Waymo vehicles illegally passing stopped school buses.

The Department of Justice may be conducting a criminal investigation. This is arguably the biggest drama between two HR startups ever.

Learn more about Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros., considered the most historic megadeal in Hollywood, as it continues to develop.

Security researchers have attributed the attempted use of destructive wiper malware across Poland's energy infrastructure in late December to a Russian-backed hacking group known for causing power outages in neighboring Ukraine.

The World Economic Forums annual meeting in Davosfelt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the main promenade.AI dominated the conversation in a way that overshadowed traditional topics like climate change and global poverty, and the CEOswerentholding back. There was public criticism of trade policy, warnings about AI []

The new feature lets you insert yourself into a meme in Google Photos.

Meta will developed new versions of AI characters that will give age-appropriate responses

Started by an engineer who worked on the space shuttle program, and at Blue Origin, Space Beyond has a spot on a 2027 Falcon 9 flight.

The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.

The business model behind these apps replicates the same dark patterns as mobile games.

The deal ends a six-year long political saga that thatstarted in 2020 when PresidentDonald Trumptried to ban the app over national security concerns during his first term.

Sam Altman is set for his first India visit in nearly a year.

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The company is also currently facing a 30-day suspension of its manufacturing and dealer licenses in California for deceptive marketing about Autopilot's capabilities.