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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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Self-driving trucks startup Einride has raised an oversubscribed $113 million PIPE in advance of its SPAC merger scheduled for early 2026.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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A Greek court on Thursday sentenced the founder of Intellexa, a collective of spyware makers, to eight years in prison for illegal wiretapping and privacy violations, according to several reports.  Tal Dilian and three other Intellexa...

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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Parents will be informed if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content and offered resources.