Google released Android 17 and Wear OS 7 on Tuesday, bringing new multitasking tools and expanded Gemini AI features including Lyria 3 music generation and Gemini Omni video editing. The update arrive…
A new survey from WordPress VIP found that 60% of U.S. consumers are turned off by brands using 'AI' in their messaging, and 86% don't fully trust AI-generated answers. The report, based on 2,000 resp…
The Department of Justice sided with xAI in a lawsuit over unpermitted gas turbines at its Memphis data centers, arguing that shutting down the turbines would harm national, economic, and energy secur…
Plaud announced its software business surpassed $100 million in annualized recurring revenue after shipping over 2 million AI-powered notetakers. The company targets professionals with screenless devi…
Robinhood is laying off 10% of its full-time employees, about 290 people, in a restructuring move that notably avoids blaming AI, unlike many other tech companies. CEO Vlad Tenev's note to employees d…
SpaceX surpassed Amazon to become the world's fifth-most valuable company with a $2.7 trillion valuation, driven by a 20% stock surge on Monday and further gains Tuesday after announcing a $60 billion…
Probably raised $9 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz to build a more reliable AI system that prevents hallucinations and factual errors. The startup's first product is a data science to…
SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in stock, days after its historic IPO. The deal aims to bolster SpaceX's AI division, which has faced controversies and restructur…
ChatGPT's market share fell below 50% for the first time in May 2026, dropping to 46.4% as users migrated to rivals like Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude, according to Sensor Tower's State of AI…
Malaysian messaging platform Respond.io raised $62.5 million in Series B funding led by Camber Partners, with participation from Endeavor Catalyst and existing investors. The company, which processes …
About 200 Stanford University students walked out and booed Google CEO Sundar Pichai during his commencement speech, protesting Google's $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli military …
The U.S. Commerce Department forced Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline via an export control directive, citing unspecified national security concerns related to a guardrail b…
Meta announced new AI features on Facebook, including 'AI Mode' that synthesizes answers from public posts across its platforms, and AI-powered photo presets for editing. The updates aim to boost enga…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a ban on social media use for children under 16, targeting platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X, with exceptions for messaging …
Dozens of cybersecurity veterans, including former Facebook chief of security Alex Stamos and Bugcrowd founder Casey Ellis, published an open letter protesting the U.S. government's export control ord…
Salesforce acquired AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion to enhance its Agentforce enterprise platform. Fin's AI agent resolves customer queries across multiple channels, and the deal is …
Sarvam AI raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, becoming India's newest AI unicorn. HCLTech led the round with $150 million, joined by Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, and Peak X…
Cybersecurity startup NewCore emerged from stealth with $66 million in seed funding to provide identity management for AI agents, treating them as employees with permissions and lifecycle controls. Th…
For the first time, an Earth observation satellite has used a vision-language model in orbit to autonomously identify areas of interest from natural language queries, without human analysts. The miles…
Tech companies are laying off tens of thousands of workers at a record pace, citing AI as the primary reason, but critics including Marc Andreessen argue AI is a convenient excuse for pandemic-era ove…