Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly. Now, in the absence of rules, there's not a lot to protect them.

Netflix's co-CEO reportedly told Trump, "I took your advice."

Learn more about Paramount's planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — a historic Hollywood megadeal valued at $111 billion — as it continues to develop.

Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.

Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.

OpenAI's CEO claims its new defense contract includes protections addressing the same issues that became a flashpoint for Anthropic.

We round up everything Xiaomi announced at its Mobile World Congress event.

China’s push into humanoid robots is accelerating, with domestic firms shipping more units and iterating faster than U.S. competitors in a still-nascent market.

India, one of Supabase’s biggest markets, is seeing patchy access after a government block order.

The company said such trades violates its internal company policies about using confidential information for personal gain.

"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post.

In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with nonconsensual nude images.

Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and who sets the rules for military AI.

OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding.

Suno lets users create music using natural language prompts, making it possible for people with little experience to generate audio with little effort.

As Netflix continues its live sports push, the company has partnered with Apple to air the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix.

Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, "unifies every current AI capability into a single system." 

The 10th-generation starter Pokémon were revealed in the trailer: Browt (a grass bird), Pombon (a fire puppy), and Gecqua (a water gecko).

While Anthropic has an existing partnership with the Pentagon, the AI company has remained firm that its technology not be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weaponry.

The U.S. cybersecurity agency's acting director Madhu Gottumukkala will be replaced, after a year of cuts, layoffs, and staff reassignments, and allegations of security lapses and claims he struggled to lead the agency.

Similar to the streaming giant's Music and Podcast Charts, the Audiobook Charts will be updated weekly and highlight the top audiobooks overall and by genre.

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Zomato co-founder Deepinder Goyal's new wearable startup Temple has raised $54 million in a friends-and-family round at a post-money valuation of about $190 million.

The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.

After years of appeals, Google has finally won approval to export high-precision geographic information out of South Korea and provide proper Google Maps services in the country, including walking and real-time driving directions.

Ultrahuman’s Ring Pro promises 15-day battery life and a $479 price tag as the wearables maker expands its health-tech push.

The new valuation is a 31% increase from $6.1 billion Plaid reached in April.

In a one-two punch of centibillion-dollar offers, the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery is over. David Ellison-owned Paramount will acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. Netflix has lost.

Jack Dorsey has long been an open admirer of Elon Musk. Now, it seems, he may have been taking notes.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that he "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Pentagon's demands to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems.

PayPal may not be in talks to be acquired, sources have told Semafor, after a previous news report that Stripe was sniffing around.

The deal paves the way for Form Energy to raise a new funding round before potentially going public next year.

Mark Zuckerberg was at Prada's fashion week event in Milan, leaving everyone to wonder if we're getting Meta AI glasses under the Prada brand.

The company's modular computer tiles offer a new vision for space data centers.

IDC says phone makers will ship only 1.12 billion smartphones as compared to 1.26 billion last year.

Mistral AI lands a partnership with Accenture, the consultant that has also recently announced partnerships with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.

Users who are part of the test can type "DM me" or "Message me" in a post or reply to automatically generate a hyperlink that invites others to start a private conversation with them.

Read AI is launching Ada, which can reply with your availability and extract answers from the company knowledge base and the web.

Bumble and other popular dating apps, like Match Group's Tinder and Hinge, have all embraced AI-powered features.

The suit said Walmart would mislead drivers about their possible tips and would reduce their base pay, among other things.

The proceeds will support Einride’s technology roadmap, global expansion, and autonomous deployments in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. 

The U.S. government and its allies said hackers have been exploiting the newly identified bug in Cisco networking gear around the world for years, and urged organizations to patch.

A group of well-known open source programmers and a VC have launched the Open Source Endowment. They hope this new method will provide funding for good.

Google is making Nano Banana 2 a default model in Gemini app and in AI mode.

Tal Dilian and three other Intellexa executives were tried for their role in a scandal dubbed "Greek Watergate," which dates back to 2022.

X has launched an expanded set of aspect ratio support for both image and video ads, so advertisers can now reuse assets they've created for other platforms.

The latest round of layoffs marks eBay’s third workforce reduction in the past three years.

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Jest, a marketplace for messaging games, emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding.

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Figma is integrating OpenAI's coding assistant Codex a week after it announced a similar integration with Anthropic's Claude Code.

Trace is launching with $3 million in seed funding, including investment from Y Combinator, Zeno Ventures, Transpose Platform Management, Goodwater Capital, Formosa Capital, and WeFunder.

Lucena got the idea for Mappa after trying to build a marketing team but continually feeling like she had made the wrong hires.

Samsung's new privacy screen feature on Galaxy S26 Ultra was the most notable feature of the event.

The Meta-owned social platform says that while it already blocks users from searching for suicide and self-harm content, these new alerts are designed to make sure parents are aware if their teen is repeatedly trying to search for this content so that they can support them.

Salesforce reported a solid year-end earnings and then pulled out all the stops to ward off more talk of the death of its business to AI.

Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed. The startup has seen early customer traction from AI search tools like ChatGPT.

Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside applications like a person with a laptop would.

"The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company's earnings.

Many hyperscalers have already made public commitments to cover electricity cost increases.

Under the first year of the Trump administration, the U.S. cyber agency CISA has faced cuts, layoffs, and furloughs, as bipartisan lawmakers and cybersecurity industry sources say the agency is unprepared to handle a crisis.

Crypto is creeping back into the startup conversation, but at ETHDenver last week, the buzz was as much about Washington as it was about tokens. Policy shifts are rippling through the market as Tether and stablecoins face scrutiny, players like Stripe re-enter the conversation, and startups either find traction or flame out. The hype cycle is over, or at least taking a break. So what comes next?  On […]

Nearly five years after graduating into an independent Alphabet company, Intrinsic is moving under Google's domain.

Snapchat is the latest social media platform to launch awards for creators, joining TikTok and Instagram.

A tax accountant saw Elon Musk fans bidding up a Kalshi prediction market and saw a sure bet to make easy money.

The former boss of a U.S. hacking tools maker was jailed for selling highly sensitive software exploits to a Russian broker. This is how we first learned of his arrest, reported the story, and some of the unanswered questions we still have.

The new privacy tech uses different types of pixels to let you block certain apps and notifications from being viewed by others.

The wearable incentivizes healthy behavior with points that can be redeemed for health products.

Kalshi fined the MrBeast editor, Artem Kaptur, over $20,000.

Public backlash over the data center boom is leading to a variety of draconian policies — including bans on new construction.

Waymo this week will begin mapping and collecting data in Chicago and Charlotte. The move comes as Waymo announces it is currently operating its robotaxis fully autonomously in 10 US cities.

Gemini on Android will be able to automate tasks involving rideshare requests, or grocery or food delivery, says Google.

COO Brad Lightcap noted that ads can add to the product experience of users if they are done right. He urged to give OpenAI a few months to see how the company fares in rolling out the product.

Peter Steinberger talks about the creation of his viral AI agent OpenClaw and how being more "playful" makes for a better way to learn AI coding.

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General-purpose tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are not designed for this use, making mental health professionals wary.

Recent findings also show that video podcasting -- while popular -- is not necessarily replacing audio shows.

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The Trump administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against countries' attempts to regulate how American tech companies handle foreigners' data.

It's the Los Angeles trucking startup's first acquisition — the latest in a series of moves to spin up new revenue streams.

Atlassian is unveiling "agents in Jira," which gives users the ability to assign and manage work given to AI agents the same as humans.

Harper is an AI-native insurance brokerage that just raised a $45 million combined Series A and seed, after being a member of YC's Winter 2025 cohort.

Users will be able to choose from Alexa styles like Brief, Chill, or Sweet, Amazon says.

Adobe Firefly is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage to create a first draft of the final video based on user instructions.

The HR tech startup, which currently operates in Brazil, has raised a $17.25 million Series A.

ChatGPT and rivals are testing whether India's massive AI user boom can translate into paying customers as free offers wind down.

The startup was founded by former Google TPU engineers in 2023.

Major automakers, tech giants, AI companies, and chipmakers are all trying to get a piece of Wayve.

Spanish startup Multiverse Computing has released a new version of its HyperNova 60B model on Hugging Face that, it says, bests Mistral's model.

Apple complies with new age-assurance laws in the U.S. and abroad, including those that block users from downloading apps aimed at adults.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company’s employees have gone all in on AI, going so far as to build a chatbot of him that they use to practice their pitches.

Stripe might be looking to buy PayPal, or parts of it, per early reports.

Peter Williams, the former head of U.S. hacking tools maker L3Harris Trenchant, was sentenced to seven years in prison for stealing and selling his former company’s hacking and surveillance tools to a Russian firm.

Form Energy's iron-air batteries will store wind and solar power to keep the data center running 24/7.

Automotive marketplace CarGurus was the target of a data breach in which the names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers were stolen.

The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday to loosen AI guardrails or face potential penalties, escalating a high-stakes dispute that raises questions about government leverage, vendor dependence, and investor confidence in defense tech.

The company added that 90% of users won’t need to verify their age and will be able to keep using Discord as usual.

An email chain with Instagram head Adam Mosseri indicated the company was aware of teen safety issues in DMs in 2018, but didn't launch its unwanted-nudity filter until 2024.

AI has brought the startup world the rise of companies that instantly hit multimillion-dollar ARR. Stripe revealed some data that shows how common this has become.

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

The U.S. Treasury announced it was imposing sanctions against a Russian broker of zero-day exploits, its founder and two affiliates, citing a threat to U.S. national security. Another affiliated zero-day broker in the United Arab Emirates was also sanctioned.

The company said that a new agent being introduced in Opal will allow users to create mini-apps that can let them plan and execute tasks using text prompts.

Spotify and Liquid Death launched what might be the wildest product of the year: a speaker shaped like a urn.

The company is implementing two suspension types: streaming suspensions and chatting suspensions.

There is a lot of talk around AI agents taking over business processes and claiming that "SaaS is dead." While these predictions have moved SaaS stocks at times, they haven't really come true.

Stripe has conducted another tender offer, where employees sell shares. Investors include Thrive Capital, Coatue, a16z, and Stripe itself.