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Meta's return to the VR glasses realm comes with a promising combination of light weight form factor and enhanced entertainment options.

Meta says the camera-free glasses will be lighter and have up to 12 hours battery life.

But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run lose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.

Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world. How much responsibility does it have to meet its net-zero pledge?

The VC firm says that AI-native companies are growing faster than any technology, ever.

The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s.

The startup is working on small, light motors with no rare-earth magnets that are suited for drones, fans, and robots.

Disney is raising the prices of Disney+ and Hulu as streaming costs continue to rise across the industry.

The repeated incidents led one worker to file a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which opened an inquiry and told Zoox to investigate the exposures.

Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones to complete agentic tasks.

YouTube is rolling out GIF replies, voice-powered TV comments, personalized moderation, paid members-only communities, and new ways for fans to support their favorite creators.

Built directly into the YouTube Music app, Ask Music lets users describe what they want to hear in everyday language rather than searching for individual songs or artists.

ouTubes new custom feeds let users describe the videos they want to see in their own words, then use Gemini to build a personalized feed around the request.

YouTube's AI feature can now help you compare products as you shop.

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Many of these tools hinge on using generative AI to try out a variety of different tactics on a video to find what works best.

YouTube is adding new features to generate ideas and monitor the performance of thumbnails.

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Spotify is rolling out Taste Profile to Premium users in the U.S., letting listeners see how the streamer understands their tastes and use natural language to reshape their recommendations.

LinkedIn is rolling out new verification tools that let members vouch for colleagues work experience and give companies more control over accounts that falsely claim to employ them.

The startup says its automated system can change four tires in under 15 minutes.

The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.

Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was heavily inspired by OpenClaw down to some of its workspace filenames and content.

This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade-school, Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.

OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.

Deeptech company Morphotonics raises 40M from investors including 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, BOM, and Invest-NL.

Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple's secret sauce has always been its people.

The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.

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Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone from the founders to their own data suppliers to tell you what they're actually building.

On Equity, we debated whether Ai executives are serious about wanting to slow down.

Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions

ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff, pitches at TechCrunch Disrupt.

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Brynn Putnam and Tristan Walker have already done something that most founders only dream about: created companies so compelling that bigger outfits bought them. Putnam, a trained ballerina with a small chain of boutique studios, built the connected-fitness company Mirror and sold it to Lululemon for $500 million in cash less than three years later. []

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