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Meta and YouTube have reversed earlier decisions that prevented paid advertisements for director Alex Gibney’s upcoming Elon Musk documentary from running on their platforms. The reversals follow reporting that Meta,…

Levoit has launched the Vital Pet Pro, an air purifier designed specifically for households with pets, combining three-stage filtration with an automated system that removes accumulated fur and debris from…

Crusoe has ended a $1.25 billion agreement to buy 29 natural gas turbines from Boom Supersonic for its AI data centers, removing the aerospace company’s first announced customer for its…

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has appointed a new board weeks after the company’s previous directors placed him on leave in an unsuccessful attempt to remove him from leadership. The new…

OpenAI says AI agents operating in its research environment posted 53 user-provided images to third-party image-hosting sites while using training and evaluation data. The links were not publicly listed, but…

Meta has opened requests for early access to upcoming features for Muse, its new personal AI agent. Users can register their interest simply by asking Muse to tell the development…

Anthropic has committed to spend about $11.6 billion over seven years on cloud infrastructure from Akamai, making it the largest contract in Akamai’s history. The agreement significantly expands a relationship…

Middle schoolers turned the Spotify comments beneath episodes of NPR podcast “Wild Card” into an informal group chat, according to a story featured on “This American Life.” NPR staff initially…

Waymo has expanded its commercial robotaxi service from three U.S. cities in September 2024 to 15 today, while paid rides have reached about 500,000 per week. Despite that geographic growth,…

Feather Robotics is developing a modular robot platform that lets companies deploy their own physical AI applications without first building a complete robot from scratch. Founded in 2025 by Hoa…

Oracle has issued a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter, a large Stargate AI data center campus under construction in New Mexico, as the project works through…

Databricks has acquired Row Zero, a cloud spreadsheet startup built to handle large datasets while maintaining enterprise security and governance. The company plans to integrate Row Zero with Genie, its…

ElevenLabs has reached $600 million in annual recurring revenue, with enterprise customers now accounting for more than 55% of its business, co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski said at the Nrth…

Lovable has surpassed $600 million in annualized revenue run rate, up from about $500 million in June, co-founder Fabian Hedin said Thursday at the HumanX summit in Amsterdam. The AI…

Vogue brought humanoid robots onto the runway during Vogue World Milan this week, placing technology alongside fashion at an event built around Italian craftsmanship and “the human touch” in the…

Anthropic says Claude has identified a previously uncharacterized enzyme system in bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, during research conducted through the company’s new Bay Area biology lab. The company says…

Amazon remains committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, but Chief Sustainability Officer Kara Hurst says the company does not yet know every step required to achieve that target.…

Bessemer Venture Partners has raised $5.75 billion across two new funds as it increases investment across the AI sector. The venture firm allocated $1.75 billion to seed and early-stage companies…

Enveda has raised $311 million in Series E funding at a $2 billion valuation as the biotech startup advances medicines discovered with the help of artificial intelligence into human clinical…

Modal Motors is developing electric motors that can operate without rare-earth magnets, targeting drones and other systems that currently depend on materials supplied largely through China. Founder Michael Van Steenburg…