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Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is calling for a national compromise between privacy and public safety as his company faces growing criticism over the use of its surveillance cameras, drones,…

Flipkart Minutes is now processing about 1.1 million to 1.2 million orders a day, putting Walmart-owned Flipkart close to Swiggy Instamart in India’s fast-growing quick-commerce market. The service has nearly…

Harvard Business School is using AI-generated faculty avatars to provide individualized feedback to entrepreneurs enrolled in its HBS Foundry bootcamp. The eight-week program costs $699 and combines weekly live instructor…

A nearly year-long U.S. Department of Justice investigation into Andreessen Horowitz is drawing attention across the venture capital industry because it reportedly focuses on the firm holding board seats at…

OpenAI is urging California lawmakers to strengthen SB 53, the state’s landmark AI safety law, despite having opposed the legislation before it was passed last year. The company now wants…

Letara has raised ¥2.6 billion, about $16 million, to expand beyond small-satellite thrusters into larger hybrid rocket systems for space, defense, and security applications. The Sapporo-based startup plans to use…

Nvidia has formed a strategic partnership with Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a company that develops the power and site infrastructure needed for large data centers. The financial terms were not disclosed, but…

Apple has cut more than 200 jobs across teams working on Vision Pro, Siri, and device-focused AI, according to Bloomberg. About 100 of the affected roles came from the Vision…

TikTok and parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to settle U.S. allegations that the platform violated federal children’s privacy law. The agreement resolves a Justice Department case…

Nvidia has published research showing that the software surrounding an AI model can dramatically change how well it performs on long-running autonomous tasks. Using its Agentic Variation Operators, or AVO,…

Tesla appears to have discontinued its Solar Roof product nearly a decade after introducing the integrated solar tiles. Public references to Solar Roof have been removed from Tesla’s website, while…

Waymo has submitted responses to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as the agency investigates a January crash in Santa Monica, California, in which one of the company’s robotaxis struck…

Walmart will begin accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay at Walmart and Sam’s Club locations in the U.S., ending years of resistance to third-party tap-to-pay services. The rollout starts August…

Starcloud has added $250 million to its Series A funding round, bringing the total raised in the round to $420 million and valuing the orbital computing startup at $2.3 billion.…

Tesla is recalling nearly 3 million vehicles in China as part of a broader safety campaign focused on hidden emergency door releases that can be difficult for occupants to find…

Apollo Global Management has confirmed a data breach in which hackers stole personal information from the private equity firm’s cloud environment following a social engineering attack. The compromised data included…

Runlayer and Rippling have dropped their lawsuits against each other without reaching a settlement or exchanging money, according to court documents reviewed by TechCrunch. Shortly after the cases were dismissed…

Castelion, a defense technology startup founded by former SpaceX executives, has raised a $1 billion Series C at a $13 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz, Carlyle, and JPMorgan Chase co-led the…

Some Grok users are reporting an unusual bug that causes the xAI chatbot to return long strings of gibberish instead of normal answers. The issue appears to affect only a…

Venture capital firm Mayfield has hired Adit Singh as an infrastructure partner, adding an investor with a background in semiconductors, hardware, and early-stage infrastructure companies. Singh previously helped source and…