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Phone maker OnePlus reportedly plans to wind down US and Europe operations
OnePlus could also wind down its operations in India by 2027
View the articleGoogle’s biggest clean power project is 40 miles north of xAI’s unpermitted gas power plant
Google's biggest solar and battery project stands in sharp contrast with xAI's nearby unpermitted power plant.
View the articleWhatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations
Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and d...
View the articleHack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data
The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.
View the articleMicrosoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI
Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's product line, thanks to discoveries with AI.
View the articleStripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for around $53.4B
If completed, the acquisition would unite two of the biggest names in digital payments.
View the articleApple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI
The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.
View the articleSpotify expands parent-managed accounts to users on its free tier
The feature was previously only available to paid subscribers.
View the articleIndia bets billions on breaking China’s grip on smartphone manufacturing
New Delhi announced a $6.5 billion smartphone manufacturing program and a $13.3 billion semiconductor push to deepen India's electronics supply chain.
View the articleUS charges Russian ‘bulletproof’ web hosts over cyberattacks that netted $62M from cybercrime victims
The 2024 indictment, now unsealed, accuses three Russians and two web hosts of aiding hackers and profiting from cybercrime.
View the articleAnthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models
Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
View the articleReelful’s AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media
The app is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional video editing tools too complex or time-consuming.
View the articleRime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls
Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies.
View the articleWhy Realta Fusion is building a fusion reactor at an old hot dog factory
An old Oscar Mayer factory in Wisconsin will become America's latest fusion power research and development hub.
View the articleVint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet
The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.
View the articleIndian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C
The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.
View the articleAn Inventor of Apple’s FaceID Wants to Analyze Your Brain’s Health With AI
Gidi Littwin’s new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and Parkinson’s. He wants the technology to be as cheap and easy as for a blood test....
View the articleBacked by $60M in funding, Oak steps out of stealth to fix the identity mess that AI agents are making worse
Cofounded by senior entrepreneur Shai Morag, Israeli identity management startup Oak is emerging out of stealth with $60 million in seed funding.
View the articleA SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era
Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites.
View the articleMy Ebike Delivery Went Missing. When I Tried to Recover It, I Ended Up in Chatbot Hell
Companies’ increasing reliance on AI chatbots isn’t making the customer service experience smarter. It’s just making it more infuriating.
View the articleOpenAI Staffers Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Take on Their Boss
OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company’s president, Greg Brockman.
View the articleOpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B
The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.
View the articleLorde says AI glasses are “not sexy”
"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said on stage.
View the articleOpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move
The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and bec...
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