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Discovered Materials, a months-old YC startup that uses AI to find chip materials, is offering $200,000 for each solution to five open materials science problems.

Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly-traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.

Amazon has made Uber Eats as its official restaurant delivery partner for Prime members in the United States.

The company is said to be significantly dropping the amount it's spending on AI for its engineering teams.

Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesdays midterms.

AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle.

While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.

During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only four people booked a ride using an AI agent.

The milestone comes a year after Snapchat announced a controversial limit on free storage for its Memories feature and informed users it would start requiring users to pay $1.99 per month for additional storage or subscribe to Snapchat+ to retain their Memories.

OpenAIs Chris Lehane wants AI to define the 2028 election, proposing a new social contract that could benefit Americans while also advancing the AI giants own business interests.

The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.

Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as increasingly capable models become more freely available, how do companies capture value? And with Chinese open models gaining ground, can American players keep up? On this episode of []

DuckDuckGo is courting schools frustrated by Google's AI restrictions, pointing educators to its search engine and options to disable AI features.

The split will set up direct competition in those markets, as Uber has many other autonomous vehicle partners on its network.

Sequoia is consolidating into a smaller, Bay Areacentered firm, shutting down the programs and offices it built during a 20-year expansion while announcing roughly $10 billion in new funds.

Apple's AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there's still room for improvement.

Politicians on the left, like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of acting as an unregulated monopoly.

Titan OS has raised $110 million in funding to date

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Canva is cutting 22% of its staff as it faces its 'hardest year' yet.

Called FlashProve, the system would let anyone check that an AI response really came from the model it claims to be from.

The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less-efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-discarded jet engines.

Cybersecurity-focused Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise $360 million for a new flagship fund and another $130 million for a separate investment vehicle.

Palantir delivered such a huge third-quarter earnings report on Monday that its press release even bragged that the numbers were crushing consensus expectations. Yet, retail investors were lukewarm on the company on Tuesday, with the stock trading slightly down. Thats because Palantirs enterprise sales, its big growth area, showed signs of slowing. First, the good []

An in-space construction first could be an enabler for the space data centers of the future.

Cybersecurity experts have long warned of the persistent and patient threat from North Korea's long-running hacks. The world's largest crypto exchange was still caught off-guard.

The five-year-old startup raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer.

The new ad placements could help Reddit squeeze more revenue from existing users as Google's AI search changes how people discover its content.

CrowdStrike said it will buy Fiddler AI, which makes AI agent observability software, and Dreadnode, which helps companies automate AI security testing.

At a moment when Anthropic's compute margins should be getting better, theyre getting worse.

Also co-founder and president Chris Yu told TechCrunch that he wanted to prioritize autonomous vehicles.

Schools choosing to restrict AI altogether will no longer be able to access Google Search, as AI features are now integrated into the search engine.

Apple's new App Store rules will require 18+ ratings for dating apps and AI companions that offer sexual or romantic content.

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Evertrue Capital announces $17M debut fund to back early stage AI and fintech.

Google's Dreambeans, its latest AI experiment, now supports 13 Indian languages.

Apple hinted at ways that it could spur revenue through third-party opportunities during its Monday night earnings call.

At a time when people are increasingly tired of dating apps, Hinge is testing a cheaper subscription plan.

The one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.

RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.

The website builder said that the job losses are part of a broader restructuring of its organization.

The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlets copyrighted and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.

The plaintiffs said they started using YouTube as young as age 3 and other social media platforms at around age 9 and developed compulsive usage habits that they attributed to features such as autoplay and infinite scrolling.

Marvell's planned purchase of Lumentum is one of the biggest acquisitions in tech history. And they both have the same strategic investor: Nvidia.

Readwise Books combines an ebook store, reading tracker, detailed reading stats, and AI features in a bid to challenge Amazon's ecosystem.

SpaceX has been looking for new ways to use its Starlink network, and a tie-up with cellular operator Boost Mobile could give it the terrestrial access it needs.

Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation?

Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in a $16 million deal.

Space infrastructure company Northwood Space on Monday said it had raised $375 million in a Series C round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and DFJ Growth, valuing the company at $2 billion.