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Blockit, an AI agent that communicates directly with other calendars, has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Sequoia.

Anduril on Thursday announced its plans to expand its Southern California presence with a major campus in Long Beach, the town where founder Palmer Luckey grew up.

OpenAI has reportedly appointed Barret Zoph to lead its push into enterprise just a week after Zoph rejoined the company.

Vimeo is in the process of laying off some of its global staff after being acquired last year by Bending Spoons for $1.38B.

The factory musical chairs reflect an economic and political environment, shaped by the Trump administration's tariff policy and its decision to end the federal EV tax credit.

Before everyone sharpens their knives, consider that for the VCs who backed Brex at its outset, the sale is a triumph.

An hours-long outage is preventing Microsoft's enterprise customers from accessing their inboxes, files, and video meetings.

Ring says the new feature will identify if video edits have been made, even if they're minor.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the tech giant isn't pressuring him to insert ads into the AI chatbot experience.

Humans&, a new startup founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, is building the next generation of foundation models for collaboration, not chat.

The move comes as Substack has been investing more heavily in video and livestreaming, as it looks to compete with platforms like YouTube and Patreon for both creators and viewers.

A number of investors are competing for the opportunity to purchase the app, and if a deal were to go through, the platform's U.S. business could have its valuation soar to upward of $60 billion.

TechCrunch obtained a sample of the stolen data, which contained names, email addresses, dates of birth, and the user's approximate geographic location. Under Armour confirmed some sensitive information was taken in the breach.

Google has hired the CEO and top top behind voice AI startup Hume AI, signaling that voice is increasingly becoming the preferred interface over screens.

Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.

Since 2024, Anthropic's performance optimization team has given job seekers a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff but as AI coding tools have gotten better, the test has had to change a lot to stay ahead of AI-assisted cheating.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin had previously suggested that the third launch of the mega-rocket would take the space company's robotic lunar lander to the moon.

Now available in the US and Canada, Spotify's AI-powered Prompted Playlists let users describe what they want to hear using natural language commands.

With these new features, Snap is likely looking to appease regulators and parents over concerns about safety and screen time on its platform.

Quadric aims to help companies and governments build programmable on-device AI chips that can run fast-changing models locally.

Tiger Global and Microsoft are offering up their full stakes in the company, while Walmart is choosing to retain its majority stake, and selling up to 45.9 million shares.

Big tech companies and upcoming startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. A lot of those experiences are limited to text or voice, and kids might not find that captivating. Three former Google employees want to get over that hurdle with their generative AI-powered interactive app, Sparkli. Sparkli was []

Should this wearable materialize, it could be released as early as 2027, according to a report on the device.

SGLang, which originated as an open-source research project at Ion Stoicas UC Berkeley lab, has raised capital from Accel.

From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot happened last year.

X says the new feature, similar to Bluesky's Starter Packs, will arrive in the coming weeks.

The feature, now public, lets you create to-do's and action items by speaking naturally to the app's AI.

Siri could look more like ChatGPT than its current state as an integrated feature across Apple products.

The newly revised document offers a roadmap for what Anthropic says is a safer and more helpful chatbot experience.

The network will be designed for enterprise, data center, and government customers and could offer an alternative to SpaceX's Starlink service.

The startup plans to expand to at least four new U.S. states in 2026.

The medical info database has doubled in valuation since last raise in October, despite encroachment from model makers.

Ads on Threads will roll out gradually to users over the coming months, Meta says.

Soon, YouTube TV will allow viewers to customize the multiview feature to watch any four channels they want side by side.

Lemonade says it worked with Tesla to gain access to previously-restricted vehicle telemetry data, but declined to offer specifics.

Deepinder Goyal will remain on Eternal's board as its vice chairman.

Zanskar has raised $115 million to find about a dozen geothermal resources that could help power the grid throughout the U.S. West.

Language learning marketplace Preply is now valued at $1.2 billion after raising a $150 million that marks a new chapter for the 14-year-old company.

Consumers spent more money in mobile apps than games in 2025, driven by AI app adoption.

ChatGPT was the second most downloaded app in India for 2025 after Instagram.

Snap is still a defendant in similar cases related to social media addiction.

Amagi shares debuted at a 12% discount, offering an early read on investor demand for a rare type of tech listing in India.

Bolna said that 75% of its revenue is coming from self-serve customers.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei unloaded on both the administration and U.S. chip companies over plans to sell to China. The criticism was particularly notable because one of those chipmakers, Nvidia, is a major partner and investor in Anthropic.

At the center of the redesign is deeper integration of vertical video feeds, which the streaming giant has been experimenting with since May.

Ethos was backed by a who's who of VCs and celebs through 2021. It is currently profitable, it says.

The feature is designed to stop problematic content from being delivered to users under the age of 18.

Tesla aims to restart work on Dojo3, its previously abandoned third-generation AI chip. Only this time, Dojo3 wont be aimed at training self-driving models on Earth. Instead, Musk says it will be dedicated to space-based AI compute.

In a post to GitHub on Tuesday, the social media giant purported to share its secret sauce.

The agreement comes two weeks after Luminar accused its billionaire founder of dodging information requests, as it evaluates potential legal claims.