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Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot

Cursor-maker Anysphere is snapping up top talent from AI enterprise startups in an effort to compete with Microsoft's GitHub Copilot.

19 Jul 2025 1:26 am
What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of Frances most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. But compared to its $6 billion valuation, its global market share is still relatively low. However, the recent []

19 Jul 2025 1:13 am
A surveillance vendor was caught exploiting a new SS7 attack to track peoples phone locations

The new SS7 bypass-attack tricks phone operators into disclosing a cell subscriber's location, in some cases down to a few hundred meters.

19 Jul 2025 12:15 am
Perplexity sees India as a shortcut in its race against OpenAI

Perplexity is quietly expanding into India to compete with OpenAI in the next phase of AI adoption.

18 Jul 2025 9:59 am
Utopian city California Forever announces huge tech manufacturing park

Solano Foundry is a 2,100-acre manufacturing park that can host 40 million square feet of advanced tech manufacturing space.

18 Jul 2025 4:14 am
Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, many of which have been aired on Claude Codes GitHub page, seem to be concentrated among heavy users of the service, many of whom are on the $200-a-month Max plan.

18 Jul 2025 2:34 am
Microsoft is buying tons of carbon removal from Xprize startup Vaulted Deep

Microsoft's data center boom has been imperiling its 2030 carbon negative pledge, so the tech giant is turning to Vaulted Deep, which operates like a reverse oil company.

18 Jul 2025 12:33 am
Hadrian raises $260M to build out automated factories for space and defense parts

Hadrian wants to revolutionize American manufacturing through automation.

17 Jul 2025 11:46 pm
After raising over $3M, popular VC-backed beauty brand Ami Col is shuttering

Diarrha N'Diaye-Mbaye, one of the first among the small number of Black women to raise more than $1 million in venture capital, hinted that one of the problems was tension between her and investors' expectations of a consumer retail business.

17 Jul 2025 11:29 pm
OpenAI launches a general purpose agent in ChatGPT

OpenAI announced the launch of ChatGPT agent, which the company claims to be its most capable AI agent product yet.

17 Jul 2025 10:30 pm
Twitch starts testing vertical video streams

Twitch's tests are not widespread at this point, as AppSensa's research only found a handful of references in the app's code that mentioned the tests would focus on just a few streamers for the time being.

17 Jul 2025 10:23 pm
Meta appoints generative AI VP to run Threads

Meta appointed Connor Hayes, Meta's VP of product for generative AI, to become the head of Threads.

17 Jul 2025 10:13 pm
Rivian restarting work on its Georgia factory, emails show

Emails obtained through a public records request show Rivian has resume the prep work for its planned factory in Georgia.

17 Jul 2025 9:45 pm
Substack raises $100M from Chernin Group, Andreessen Horowitz, Skims CEO and more

The New York Times reports that the funding brings Substack's valuation to $1.1 billion, almost 70% higherthan its 2021 valuation of $650 million.

17 Jul 2025 9:40 pm
Hackers are trying to steal passwords and sensitive data from users of Signal clone

The bug in the modified messaging app can expose users' plaintext usernames, passwords, and other sensitive data, per GreyNoise.

17 Jul 2025 9:12 pm
Boulevard raises $80M to power self-care boom driven by Botox and GLP-1 surge

The nine-year-old salon and spa software provider has hit a valuation of nearly $800 million.

17 Jul 2025 8:59 pm
Zuckerberg and Meta investors reach settlement in $8B privacy case

The shareholders' lawsuit alleges Facebook execs intentionally violated an FTC agreement by sharing user data with third-party apps without user consent.

17 Jul 2025 8:55 pm
Mistrals Le Chat chatbot gets a productivity push with new deep research mode

French AI lab Mistral introduced a range of new features to its Le Chat chatbot on Thursday that bring it closer to the capabilities of rivals like OpenAI and Google. The new update includes a new deep research mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing.

17 Jul 2025 8:51 pm
Confident Security, the Signal for AI, comes out of stealth with $4.2M

San Francisco-based startup Confident Security wants to be the Signal for AI. The company just came out of stealth with $4.2 million and a tool that wraps around AI models to guarantee data stays private.

17 Jul 2025 8:30 pm
North Korean hackers blamed for record spike in crypto thefts in 2025

Chainalysis said crypto thefts during the first half of 2025 were at record levels, thanks in large part to a single breach at a major crypto exchange.

17 Jul 2025 8:21 pm
Spotify expands audiobook access to family plan members for the first time

Spotify is expanding access to audiobooks with two new plans, one of which offers access to family members.

17 Jul 2025 8:05 pm
UAEs deal to buy Nvidia AI chips reportedly on hold

The U.S. is reportedly holding up the deal due to concerns that AI chips could be smuggled to China from the UAE.

17 Jul 2025 7:07 pm
Uber partners with Nuro, invests $300M into Lucid to launch upscale robotaxi service

Uber is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Lucid and autonomous vehicle technology startup Nuro in a bid to launch its own robotaxi service.

17 Jul 2025 6:01 pm
Uber makes multi-million-dollar investment in Lucid and Nuro to build a premium robotaxi service

Uber is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Lucid and autonomous vehicle technology startup Nuro in a bid to launch its own robotaxi service.

17 Jul 2025 6:01 pm
Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch

Only eight months after its launch, Sweden's Lovable has raised a $200 million Series A round led by Accel at a $1.8 billion valuation.

17 Jul 2025 5:41 pm
Slack bolsters search with AI, adds transcriptions and summaries for huddles

Slack is bolstering search on its app with AI features, adding transcription and summaries for huddles, and a way to see recaps of channels and threads.

17 Jul 2025 5:30 pm
Roblox introduces new safeguards for teens, including age estimation tech

The move comes as Roblox has come under fire in recent years over child safety concerns.

17 Jul 2025 4:30 pm
TikTok is adding features for songwriters to its app

TikTok is adding a new label to its app, allowing songwriters to highlight their profiles

17 Jul 2025 12:30 pm
Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media

Jack Dorsey backs nonprofit 'and Other Stuff' with $10M to build open social technology.

17 Jul 2025 9:31 am
Apple News+ adds a new game that uses emoji and Genmoji to sovle puzzles

Released to coincide with World Emoji Day, the new Emoji Game is part logic, part word game that's inspired by how we use emojis to communicate.

17 Jul 2025 9:30 am
Beepers all-in-one messaging app relaunches with an on-device model and premium upgrades

Multi-service messaging app Beeper, which allows people to connect to all their chat apps from one interface, is relaunching its app on Wednesday to offer a more secure version that no longer requires use of its own cloud services.

17 Jul 2025 3:30 am
India eyes global quantum computer push and QpiAI is its chosen vehicle

QpiAI, an Indian startup that integrates AI and quantum computing for enterprise use cases, has raised $32 million in a new funding round co-led by the Indian government.

17 Jul 2025 2:24 am
OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry reckless safety culture at Elon Musks xAI

The criticisms follow weeks of scandals at xAI that have overshadowed the company's technological advances.

16 Jul 2025 11:41 pm
GM teams up with Redwood Materials to power data centers with EV batteries

GM will send batteries new and old to Redwood Materials, which will assemble them into large packs capable of supporting data centers and the grid.

16 Jul 2025 11:30 pm
xAI is hiring an engineer to make anime girls

The company is hiring for the role of Fullstack Engineer - Waifus, or, creating AI-powered anime girls for people to fall in love with.

16 Jul 2025 9:39 pm
Google rolls out AI-powered business calling feature, brings Gemini 2.5 Pro to AI Mode

The new business calling feature uses AI to call local businesses on your behalf, for information about availability and pricing.

16 Jul 2025 9:30 pm
Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics with $80M to automate construction

Former Waymo engineers have launched an autonomous vehicle startup with $80 million in venture funds.

16 Jul 2025 9:09 pm
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

ChatGPT, OpenAIs text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership []

16 Jul 2025 8:52 pm
A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.

16 Jul 2025 8:45 pm
Faraday Future faces potential SEC enforcement action after three-year probe

The troubled EV startup, its founder, and the founder's nephew are all in the financial regulator's crosshairs.

16 Jul 2025 8:42 pm
Transit software startup Via confidentially files for an IPO

The transit software company, is finally taking the step into public markets with an IPO after abandoning the idea in 2021.

16 Jul 2025 8:39 pm
Rex Salisburys Cambrian Ventures raises new fund, bucking fintech slowdown

Spurred by the performance of its first fund, Cambrian Ventures' $20 million second fund will continue the firm's thesis of focusing on fintech startups.

16 Jul 2025 8:13 pm
Meet the cement transport ship that makes cement ingredients while sailing

London-based Seabound has developed a carbon capture system that transforms CO2 from a ship's engine into limestone, which Heidelberg Materials will use to make cement.

16 Jul 2025 7:41 pm
UK retail giant Co-op confirms hackers stole all 6.5 million customer records

The hackers stole the company's member list, which included customer names, addresses, and contact information.

16 Jul 2025 6:50 pm
Meta reportedly scores two more high-profile OpenAI researchers

OpenAI researcher Jason Wei will reportedly join Metas new Superintelligence Lab. Another team member, Hyung Won Chung, might also join Meta, as the company works to catch up to rivals in the AGI race.

16 Jul 2025 6:49 pm
Chinese authorities are using a new tool to hack seized phones and extract data

Researchers warned that Chinese residents, and visitors to China, should be aware of the tool's existence and the risks it poses.

16 Jul 2025 3:30 pm
Of course, Groks AI companions want to have sex and burn down schools

xAI's first AI companions on the Grok app are a lustful anime girl and a homicidal panda.

16 Jul 2025 5:16 am
The Chainsmokers Mantis Ventures closes $100M third fund

The fund brings Mantis' assets under management to $225 million.

16 Jul 2025 4:06 am
Amazons Kuiper satellites to get boost from rival SpaceX

Amazon is looking to its main competitor to get its next batch of Kuiper satellites to orbit.

16 Jul 2025 3:56 am
US Army soldier pleads guilty to hacking telcos and extortion

Cameron Wagenius had already pleaded guilty to other charges earlier this year.

16 Jul 2025 3:11 am