It took Slate Auto about seven months to grow its customer list by 50%, but new reservations appear to be outpacing any cancelations.

Users can view and share photos and comments about restaurants they’ve visited, discover content from others, and follow people just like on any social network.

Conversation focus uses the AI glasses' open-ear speakers to amplify the voice of the person you're talking to, says Meta.

OpenAI rolls out GPT Image 1.5 for ChatGPT, promising 4x faster generation, better instruction-following, and precise edits. The launch escalates its rivalry with Google Gemini.

Luminar says trouble with Volvo started as early as 2022, and that the Swedish automaker made -- but then backed away from -- large orders of its lidar sensors.

Leona Health built an AI co-pilot to manage the flood of patient messages Latin American doctors receive on WhatsApp.

Google's new email-based assistant will be available to AI Pro and Ultra plan users over the age of 18 in North America.

The food waste startup founded by Nest alumnus Matt Rogers also received an investment from Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund.

As part of the agreement, Netflix will get a diverse range of shows spanning comedy, crime, history, sports, and more.

Rax is a peer-to-peer clothing rental company that won top consumer pitch at Disrupt this year.

By bringing Reels to TVs, Instagram can better compete with YouTube, which largely dominates the TV space.

The tech giant's adoption of Google Cast signals its interest in making Apple TV a more competitive streaming service at a time when the market is seeing increased consolidation.

The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters hacking collective stole Pornhub premium users’ data, including email addresses and viewing history.

With this funding, Digantara has raised $64.5 million in total as it moves beyond space situational awareness into missile tracking, citing growing demand from governments for space-based defense capabilities.

The data intelligence company has just raised more than $4 billion in a Series L funding round at a $134 billion valuation — up 34% from the $100 billion valuation that it achieved just three months ago.

Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new third-party models for image and video generation, including Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 and Topaz Astra.

Last Energy will use the funds to build its 5 megawatt pilot reactor in Texas, which it hopes to turn on next year.

Everbloom has also developed a chemical process to transform waste fibers and feathers into upcycled materials that resemble everything from polyester to cashmere.

The Nordic Web closes its $6 million Fund III. The fund will focus on writing the first institutional checks to companies focused on robotics, AI-native companies, and deep tech founders.

The next consumer tech revolution may require an introduction of a new personal device.

Chai is building foundation models for drug discovery, specifically to predict interactions between molecules so they could be reprogramed for cures.

Riverside's year-end review is amusing, but it represents a creative culture that's increasingly entwined with AI.

After the one year is up, Disney is free to sign similar deals with other AI companies.

Nvidia acquired SchedMD, the lead developer of Slurm, and launched the Nemotron 3 family of open source AI models.

Ford will invest about $2 billion into the new business over the next two years.

The company is abandoning plans for a brand new all-electric pickup truck codenamed "T3" and ending production of the battery-only Lightning.

The organization offered support for this idea of an AI marketplace, and suggested several guiding principles.

The massive fund haul will allow the Silicon Valley firm to continue to invest in cash-hungry AI startups.

AI-generated content has dominated the internet over the past year, and America's dictionary took note.

Launched initially about a year and a half ago, this tool aimed to help users monitor their personal information on the dark web.

As tech journalists we have a lot of opinions. So if we really like something, it's probably good!

Threads, which has more than 150 million daily active users, adds more communities to its platform.

The filing marks the end of a tumultuous year full of layoffs, executive departures, and piling debts.

Zoom is allowing free users to try its AI assistant in limited capacity.

Industry concerns over Netflix acquiring Warner Bros. has led executives to address fears regarding jobs and theatrical releases.

The app remains usable via the web, Facebook app, and through the mobile app for iOS and Android.

It's one of the last big steps before the company can truly claim it's operating a robotaxi service, and start to take on Waymo.

The Recap is a short video that offers a personalized look at highlights from Snaps, Stories, and Chats, showing how users connected and expressed themselves throughout the year.

First Voyage has raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round from a16z speedrun, SignalFire, True Global, and other investors.

After successfully lobbying the Trump administration to approve the sales of its H200 chips to China, Nvidia is now thinking of adding capacity to produce more of the chips.

Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

Thea Energy says that its planar-coil fusion power plant could be cheaper and easier to build thanks to AI-powered control software.

iRobot survived three decades of competition, but couldn't survive European regulators killing its Amazon buyout. Now it's being taken over by its own supplier in bankruptcy court.

Meta has three months to comply with Indian government directions that could affect how WhatsApp operates in the country.

Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musk’s xAI and popularized on his social media platform X, appears to have repeatedly spread misinformation about today’s 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 speaker’s tone, emphasis, and cadence intact, so it’s easier to follow the conversation and tell who’s saying what.

Retro's new feature, Rewind, lets 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.