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AI assistant startup Instinct has raised $1 billion in a Series C round from investors including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Coatue, giving the company a $10 billion valuation. The…

SpaceX has sent Starship into Earth orbit for the first time, marking a major milestone for the company’s reusable mega-rocket program. The spacecraft also deployed 26 third-generation Starlink satellites during…

Quartermaster has raised $140 million in Series B financing, just months after closing a $43 million Series A in May. The Arlington, Virginia-based startup is using cameras, radios, and weather-resistant…

Truecaller has launched Scam Checker, a free service that checks suspicious phone numbers, links, and messages without requiring users to sign in or download its caller ID app. The Swedish…

“Saturday Night Live” mocked recent warnings about artificial intelligence risks during its latest Weekend Update segment, with cast member Jane Wickline portraying Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as conflicted over the…

Artificial intelligence tools used by hospitals for billing may have contributed $942 million in additional healthcare spending for Blue Cross Blue Shield companies over two years, according to a new…

TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million and introduce new safeguards for young users under a settlement resolving allegations that the platform misled consumers about its safety and used…

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…

Meta is expanding its smart glasses lineup with camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses, new hearing-enhancement software and deeper integration with its Muse personal AI agent. The company plans to offer…

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…

Bitget says hackers stole about $351.6 million in cryptocurrency from parts of its wallet infrastructure on September 24, making the incident the largest publicly reported crypto theft of 2026 so…

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…