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Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musks xAI and popularized on his social media platform X, appears to have repeatedly spread misinformation about todays mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia.

Fintech startup Mesa has shut down its Homeowners Card, which awarded points to cardholders for paying their mortgages.

Netflix's $82.6 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. encapsulates a fraught moment for Hollywood, as the entertainment business is increasingly overshadowed by tech giants.

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Spinny is set to be valued at about $1.8 billion post-money in its latest funding round.

A woman is facing felony charges in Evansville, Indiana over a DoorDash delivery in which she allegedly sprayed the food with a substance that made the customers vomit.

Improvements to roads, bridges, and other infrastructure could take a hit as data center construction accelerates.

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2025.

Rivian demonstrated the progress it's made, and in the process showed just how far it still has to go to make its cars autonomous.

Your iPhone clock doesn't have to be so glassy anymore, thanks to a new Apple software update.

Apple released patches for all of its flagship devices to fix security flaws under attack. Google also updated Chrome to remediate one vulnerability exploited in the attacks.

Women ran an experiment to see if LinkedIn's new algo was being sexist and thought they proved it. But there's more complexity involved, experts say.

Microsoft's data center ambitions have imperiled its 2030 pledge to remove more carbon than it generates, making carbon removal credits all but necessary.

700Credit, a company that runs credit checks and identity verification services for auto dealerships across the U.S., had a data breach that allowed a hacker to steal names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers.

Trump signed an AI executive order targeting state laws and promising one national rulebook. Critics warn it could trigger court battles and prolong uncertainty for startups while Congress debates federal rules.

The real-time headphone translations experience keeps each speakers tone, emphasis, and cadence intact, so its easier to follow the conversation and tell whos saying what.

Retro's new feature, Rewind, let you look back at your photo memories and scroll through them with a dial.

A security researcher tried to alert Home Depot to the security lapse exposing its back-end GitHub source code repos and other internal cloud systems, but was ignored.

Hama Film makes photo booths that upload pictures and videos online. But their back-end systems have a simple flaw that allows anyone to download customer pictures.

As robotaxi adoption continues, wild ideas like personal ownership and renting them out are starting to pop up again.

Reddit, one of the world's largest social platforms, is arguing that it doesn't meet the definition of social media platforms as it seeks to overturn Australia's law banning children under 16 years of age from social media.

His reporting on a Stanford University president put Theo Baker on the map, but his upcoming book may cement his reputation as the rare young journalist willing to challenge Silicon Valley's startup machine.

For the first time, developers can embed Google's Deep Research tool, based on Gemini 3 Pro, into their own apps.

Graham & Walkers Leslie Feinzaig and XYZ Ventures Ross Fubini share the secrets for founders and VCs to make the most of the current fast pace of dealmaking.

The game is back on the Google Play Store, but another court decision is rolling back some of the developer-friendly changes on iOS.

Disney is accusing the tech giant of unauthorized distribution of its copyrighted characters without permission via Gemini AI.

In the past, users had to upload a full-body picture of themselves to virtually try on a piece of clothing. Now, they can use a selfie andNano Banana will generate a full body digital version of them.

OpenAI just launched GPT-5.2, a frontier model aimed at developers and professionals, pushing reasoning and coding benchmarks as it races Googles Gemini 3 while grappling with compute costs and no generator.

Google Labs is testing a product that will work with your browser tabs to make web apps for you.

And when it does, the AI assistant will roll out to every existingEV in its lineup, not just the next-generation versions of its R1T truck and R1S SUV.

CEO RJ Scaringe laid out his plan for how Rivian's vehicles will increasingly drive themselves, in a bid to match or exceed the capabilities of rival automakers and AV companies.

Runway debuts a physics-aware world model that simulates reality to train agents and power video, robotics and avatar applications.

The factories live on; the joint venture will not.

Disney says that alongside the agreement, it will ecome a major customer of OpenAI, as it will useits APIs to build new products, tools, and experiences, including for Disney+.

On Me raises $6 million for its digital gift card platform that lets users purchase cards categorized by interests rather than being restricted to specific retailers.

TIME Magazine has named the 'Architects of AI' its Person of the Year, who include Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Lisa Su, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and Fei-Fei Li

The founder of Freedom Chat said the company has reset user PINs and released a new version to app stores.

Following a couple of months' testing, Opera has finally made its AI-powered browser, Neon, available to the public though you'll have to shell out for a $19.90-per-month subscription to use it.

The biotech startup is betting that owners of abandoned oil wells will use the tech to squeeze energy out of their wells.

Spoor's computer vision software can help wind farms, and other industries, track bird populations and migration patterns.

Runware lets developers integrate realtime image generation in their apps, with an affordable pricing model.

Port offers a proprietary alternative to Spotify's popular devtool catalog Backstage, but with a valuable addition: it can be used to manage AI agents, too.

Goldman Sachs has led Harness's Series E round, with participation from IVP, Menlo Ventures, and Unusual Ventures.

Some traditions, it seems, are immune to disruption.