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Warner Music Group Acquires Sureel AI To Track Music Use In AI

Warner Music Group has agreed to acquire Sureel AI, a startup that tracks how music and related rights are used in AI-generated content and model training. The company said the…

ServiceNow Notifies Customers After Bug Exposed Some Hosted Data

ServiceNow has notified some enterprise customers that a platform bug may have allowed unauthenticated users to access data hosted in customer instances. The company patched some customer instances on June…

Apple Warns Low-Quality Apps May Be Removed From App Store

Apple has updated its App Review Guidelines to warn developers that some apps in crowded categories may be removed from the App Store if they are not updated, improved, or…

Apple Lets Developers Team Up On App Store Subscription Bundles

Apple will let developers partner with one another to offer discounted subscription bundles through the App Store. The change expands App Bundles beyond a single developer’s own apps, allowing separate…

Sandstone Raises $30 Million To Build AI Tools For In-House Legal Teams

Sandstone has raised $30 million in Series A funding to build AI software for in-house legal teams. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and comes six months after…

Lovable Says Annualized Revenue Has Passed $500 Million

Lovable says it has surpassed $500 million in annualized revenue run rate, extending the fast growth of one of Europe’s best-known AI app-building startups. The company last said in February…

Orbital Raises $5 Million To Build AI Data Centers In Space

Orbital has emerged with a $5 million seed round to develop AI data centers in space, starting with a planned test mission in 2027. The startup came out of Andreessen…

Evotrex Raises $30 Million To Build Hybrid RV Travel Trailer

Evotrex has raised $30 million in Series A funding to build and test its first hybrid RV travel trailer, the PG5. The Los Angeles-based startup has now raised $46 million…

Zepto Files IPO Papers As Revenue Grows And Losses Widen

Zepto has filed updated IPO papers in India, giving investors a closer look at the quick-commerce startup’s growth, advertising revenue, and losses before its planned public listing. The company plans…

Mercor Co-Founder Criticizes Sequoia Over Dual-Priced Startup Rounds

Mercor co-founder Brendan Foody has criticized Sequoia Capital over a venture funding practice in which investors take part in the same startup round at different valuations. The dispute has drawn…

OpenAI Files For IPO As Sam Altman’s World Project Reportedly Cuts Jobs

OpenAI has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, while Sam Altman’s other company, Tools for Humanity, is reportedly laying off employees. The two developments place Altman-linked companies in different…

OpenAI Files Confidentially For IPO As AI Listing Race Builds

OpenAI has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, giving the ChatGPT maker the option to go public while keeping its timing and financial details private for now. The filing…

Waymo Buys Former Apple Test Site In Arizona For $220 Million

Waymo has acquired a 5,500-acre autonomous vehicle proving ground in Wittman, Arizona, for $220 million. The property was owned by Route 14 Investment Partners LLC, a Delaware shell company associated…

Microsoft Pulls GitHub Repositories After Malware Found In Open Source Projects

Microsoft has temporarily removed access to dozens of open source projects on GitHub after hackers apparently breached the repositories and added password-stealing malware. Many of the affected projects were tied…

Pentagon Adds Alibaba, Baidu, BYD And Unitree To Chinese Military Company List

The U.S. Department of Defense has added Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, Unitree, and other Chinese companies to its 1260H list of entities it says are linked to China’s military. The updated…

Sriram Krishnan To Leave White House AI Policy Role At End Of June

Sriram Krishnan, a former tech executive and venture capitalist, will leave his role as senior policy advisor for artificial intelligence at the White House at the end of June. His…

Cyberattacks Hit Government Data, Infrastructure, Companies And Identity Systems In 2026

Cybersecurity incidents in 2026 have affected U.S. government data, civilian infrastructure, major companies, open source software, and identity verification services. Reported cases include alleged Social Security data exposure, attacks on…

Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati Previews ‘Interaction Models’ In First Major Media Appearance In 18 Months

Mira Murati, former CTO of OpenAI and now CEO of Thinking Machines Lab, sat down with Bloomberg in San Francisco on Thursday for her first major media appearance in roughly…

Anthropic Files Confidentially For IPO After $65 Billion Raise At $965 Billion Valuation

Anthropic has taken steps toward a public listing by filing confidentially for an IPO, co-founder Daniela Amodei said at the Bloomberg Tech conference on Thursday. The decision comes down to…

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Plans To Back New AI Lab, Entering Competition With OpenAI

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky plans to back a new AI lab of his own, according to Bloomberg and confirmed to TechCrunch by a person familiar with the situation. Chesky has…