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Fizz has expanded its lawsuit against rival Sidechat, alleging that a Maveron VC shared its confidential information obtained during a fundraising meeting with the competing startup.

The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.

HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.

China's state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.

The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European Commission said.

A third ransomware negotiator has been jailed for helping a notorious ransomware group to extort American victim companies into paying the hackers.

Vivo's joint venture could become a template for Chinese smartphone makers in India.

OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.

The new exchanged-traded funds exclude companies that are founded, controlled, or led by Elon Musk. That means no SpaceX or Tesla.

OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterprise market.

OpenAI's latest family of models promise improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.

Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round proof, evidently, that the product actually works.

OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it's moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.

Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can.

The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.

Meta's pitch to users is Spark's ability to handle large agentic workloads, fix bugs, and help with large code migrations the kind of automation that enterprises are increasingly turning to AI companies to provide.

In this weeks episode of Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen talks with Precursor Ventures' Charles Hudson about the headwinds facing early-stage founders today and the most common mistakes founders should avoid in order to get funded.

News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.

Slate has an answer for owners who have always want to drive a truck with bright crayon colors.

The video call highlights the murky relationship between professional athletes and gambling apps.

A new $20 billion valuation would be a giant step up from the $10 billion valuation it reached in October.

While Google prohibits misleading and deceptive ads, an ad can still leverage AI to create some type of synthetic or digitally altered content. Until now, that's something Google only required election ads to disclose.

The saga of Musk's tussle with the SEC over how he disclosed his growing stake in Twitter (now X) has come to an end.

The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.

The race to produce more chips is on, and Europe is in. ASML, the Dutch company that has a near-monopoly on manufacturing the machines used for chipmaking, may soon no longer be an isolated success story. Like its U.S. counterpart, the European Chips Act aims to foster the semiconductor industry in part thanks to []

Manna is launching a U.S. operations and manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will eventually employ 1,000 people.

Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.

This developer didn't expect his side project to grow to 300,000 users, but people love Roost because it's an alternative to an always-on, fast-paced online culture.

General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with minimal real-world data.

X plans to send users direct messages when posts theyve liked, replied to, or reposted receive Community Notes, an update aimed at addressing criticism that the platforms crowdsourced fact-checking system often arrives too late to curb misinformation.

The feature can do things like apply cinematic relighting to brighten up a dark clip, swap out a plain background for something fun, or add artistic styles to videos.

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models justdonthave what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claudeare great at text, buttheyreless skilled at understanding how thingsactually movethrough space and timean essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filledbygaming data.Thatsthe bet behind General Intuition, a []

Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use.

OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.

Paradigm, the VC firm founded in 2018 to back crypto startups, raised a $1.2 billion Fund III.

The round, led by Radical Ventures, values the two-year old startup at $1 billion.

The cyberattack targeting a U.S. insurance giant is the largest known breach of driver's license numbers so far in 2026.

There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.

Vermilion Cliffs Ventures announced Wednesday the close of a $25 million Fund II.

Apple has signed a $30 billion+ multiyear deal with Broadcom to design and produce more than 15 billion U.S.-made custom wireless connectivity chips for Apple products.

Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.

The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.

Open-source models success isnt coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life-cycle.

Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.

The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.

Google's upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.

The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe-coding platform and later built an agent-creation product.

Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including Rolling Stone and Variety.

From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026.

The company just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday.