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The commercial robotaxi service launched last year. Now, the human safety operator is gone.

An investor explains the uy, fix, and hold model employed by Bending Spoons and similar companies that buy distressed startups.

The company announced last month that it would no longer allow minors to use its chat features.

ChatGPT now lets you use voice and text in the same screen, making conversations feel more natural as responses and visuals appear in real time.

WMG says artists and songwriters will have full control over whether and how their names, images, likenesses, voices,and compositions are used in new AI-generated music.

Startup founders building AI shopping tools think general-purpose models are too broad to deliver truly personalized shopping experiences.

Nick Gross says that Find Your Grind gives students the tools to explore what careers are out there and what paths suit their strengths, interests, and visions for what they want their futures to look like.

WhatsApp's new platform policies ban general purpose AI chatbots like Copilot from using its service.

The Chinese autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai has global ambitions and plans to build a 3,000-strong robotaxi fleet to meet them.

The discovery suggests that a region in Quebec might hold even more lithium than originally suspected.

In the last 12 months, there has been a proliferation of voice detection tools, thanks to overall quality improvement in speech recognition models. Speechify is hitching its wagon to this train and launching its own dictation tool with support for English.

Major record labels have been urging Spotify and other music streaming platforms to raise subscription prices, arguing that fees have not kept pace with inflation and remain low when compared to services like Netflix.

India is restructuring its gig economy with a new labor law, but much more is needed before gig workers see real benefits.

Google and Accel will jointly invest up to $2 million in each startup through their new partnership.

The U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission claims Rad Power efused to agree to an acceptable recall. Rad Power says the CPSC's solution would bankrupt the company.

Stickerbox turns kids ideas into printable stickers, blending AI magic with hands-on coloring for a surprisingly creative, screen-light play experience.

AWS has been working with the U.S. government since 2011 and is now building AI infrastructure specifically for the entity.

Anthropic has launched Opus 4.5, the latest version of its flagship model, with new integrations into Chrome and Excel.

The small modular reactor startup is capitalizing on surging interest from tech companies and data center developers.

DOGE members are reportedly worried that they could face prosecution for some of their activities conducted while under the leadership of Elon Musk.

Pocket Casts now lets you create playlists for putting podcasts episodes in your desired listening order.

Most AI benchmarks measure intelligence and instruction-following rather than psychological safety. Humane Bench evaluates models based on core principles of human flourishing, prioritizing wellbeing, and respecting user attention.

Facebook users can protect their privacy in Groups using a new nicknames feature.

Palo is tool for short video creators to gain insights into what is working for them.

U.S. banking giants including JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and Morgan Stanley are working to identify what data was stolen in a recent cyberattack on a New York financial firm.

The country's communications minister Fahmi Fadzil said the administration is considering systems for implementing age restrictions on social media sites.

AI testing startup Momentic has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Standard Capital, with participation from Dropbox Ventures. Existing investors at Y Combinator, FCVC, Transpose Platform and Karman Ventures also participated.

Startups are still racing to build the world's first commercial fusion power plant on land, but Maritime Fusion thinks the path will be easier out at sea.

The deal was led by Coatue, Greenoaks, Dragoneer and Fidelity. Investors including Nvidia's NVentures, Andreessen Horowitz, Franklin Templeton, and other backers advised by T. Rowe Price Associates also participated.

Roblox CEO Dave Baszuki joined the Hard Fork podcast to discuss the gaming platforms new age verification feature but he seemed to get frustrated at the number of questions focused on child safety.

A new feature seemingly revealed many right-wing America First accounts are actually based outside the United States. But the data seems questionable.

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Beehiiv's co-founder and CEO Tyler Deck spoke to TechCrunch about why the company has been expanding, and where the media business is going next.

A wave of lawsuits against OpenAI detail how ChatGPT used manipulative language to isolate users from loved ones and make itself into their sole confidant.