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Jeff Bezos Family Office Representative Leaves Slate Auto Board

The head of Bezos Expeditions, the family office of Jeff Bezos, has stepped down from the board of electric vehicle startup Slate Auto, according to multiple state filings reviewed by…

Mozilla Says Anthropic’s Mythos AI Found High-Severity Firefox Bugs Hidden For Years

Mozilla researchers said Anthropic’s Mythos AI model has uncovered numerous high-severity vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser, including flaws that had remained undetected in the software for more than a decade.…

Google Launches $100 Fitbit Air Screenless Wearable With Gemini Health Features

Google introduced a new screenless wearable called the Fitbit Air on Thursday, expanding its health tracking lineup with a smaller and lower-cost device designed for continuous daily wear. The Fitbit…

Toronto Police Arrest Three Men Over Alleged SMS Blaster Phishing Operation

Police in Toronto have arrested three men and filed 44 charges in connection with an alleged SMS blaster operation that authorities say targeted tens of thousands of mobile devices with…

Skyroot Aerospace Becomes India’s First Space Tech Unicorn Ahead Of Vikram-1 Launch

Indian startup Skyroot Aerospace has become the country’s first space technology unicorn after raising $60 million in new funding ahead of the planned orbital debut of its Vikram-1 rocket in…

Spotify Expands AI DJ Feature With Four New Languages And More Countries

Spotify announced on Thursday that its interactive AI DJ feature now supports four additional languages: French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese, expanding beyond its previous English and Spanish availability. The…

AI Industry Leaders Warn Of Supply Limits And Infrastructure Constraints At Milken Conference

Executives and researchers representing multiple layers of the artificial intelligence industry said growing demand for AI infrastructure is running into major supply and operational constraints, with shortages affecting chips, cloud…

Lachy Groom Invests $20 Million In Indian Home Services Startup Pronto

Silicon Valley investor Lachy Groom committed $20 million to Indian startup Pronto after spending just 20 minutes with the company’s founder during their first meeting earlier this year, as the…

Barry Diller Says Sam Altman Is “Sincere” But Warns About Unknown AI Risks

Media executive Barry Diller said he believes Sam Altman is trustworthy and sincere in his work on artificial intelligence, while also warning that the larger concern surrounding AI involves the…

Snap Ends Planned Perplexity Partnership As Snapchat User Growth Continues

Snap Inc. said it has ended its partnership agreement with Perplexity AI, canceling a previously announced plan to integrate Perplexity’s AI search technology into Snapchat. The company disclosed the change…

xAI Sells Colossus Data Center Capacity To Anthropic In Multi-Billion-Dollar Deal

xAI and Anthropic announced a partnership on Wednesday that will give Anthropic access to the full compute capacity of xAI’s Colossus 1 data center, a facility estimated at roughly 300…

DeepSeek Reportedly Seeks First Venture Funding At Up To $45 Billion Valuation

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly in discussions to raise its first venture capital funding round, with the company’s potential valuation rising from about $20 billion to as high as…

Google Adds Forum Discussions And Subscription Links To AI Search Results

Google is updating its AI-powered search experience with new features that provide additional context around cited links, including excerpts from web forums, blogs, social platforms, and discussion communities, as the…

Match Group Slows Hiring As Company Increases Spending On AI Tools

Match Group said it is slowing hiring plans for the rest of the year as the company increases spending on artificial intelligence tools for employees, according to comments made during…

Apple Agrees To $250 Million Settlement Over Apple Intelligence Marketing Claims

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that the company overstated the readiness and availability of artificial intelligence features promoted ahead of the…

Finnish AI Lab QuTwo Reaches €325 Million Valuation After €25 Million Angel Round

Finnish artificial intelligence startup QuTwo has reached a valuation of €325 million, or about $380 million, after raising a €25 million angel funding round, as investor interest in European AI,…

ReMarkable Launches $399 Paper Pure E Ink Tablet With Web App And Slack Integration

ReMarkable has introduced a new monochrome E Ink tablet called the Paper Pure, marking the company’s return to black-and-white productivity devices after expanding into color display products with the Paper…

Children Bypass Online Age Checks Using Fake Facial Hair And Video Game Characters

Children are finding simple ways to bypass online age verification systems, including drawing fake facial hair with makeup pencils to appear older to automated verification tools, according to a new…

Samsung Reaches $1 Trillion Valuation As AI Chip Demand Drives Share Surge

Samsung’s market valuation crossed $1 trillion on Wednesday after shares of the South Korean technology company climbed more than 10%, as rising demand for artificial intelligence chips continued to lift…

ElevenLabs Reveals New Investors As ARR Passes $500 Million

Voice AI startup ElevenLabs disclosed additional investors participating in its $500 million Series D funding round, while also reporting that its annual recurring revenue has exceeded $500 million as the…