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Oura Seeks Up to $2.2 Billion in IPO as Early Investors Cash Out

Smart ring maker Oura is seeking to raise as much as $2.2 billion in its initial public offering, but most of the money from the deal will go to existing…

Tabby Wants to Make Bookkeeping Invisible for Small Businesses

Tabby is building an AI-powered bookkeeping platform designed to replace much of the software and manual work small businesses typically use to manage their finances. Fourteen months after launch, the…

Google Opens $899 Googlebook Preorders With Gemini Built Into the Laptop Experience

Google has opened preorders for its new Googlebook, an $899 laptop designed around Gemini AI and a desktop version of Android rather than traditional ChromeOS. First introduced in May, the…

Corridor Raises $25 Million to Bring AI Agents to Small-Business Health Benefits

Corridor has raised $25 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures to build an AI-powered health benefits brokerage for small businesses. The startup pairs human advisors with AI…

World Model Startups Keep Their Commercial Plans Quiet as Competition Builds

AI companies developing world models are attracting substantial funding while revealing relatively little about how they plan to turn the technology into businesses. Two prominent players, Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs…

ScrollEd Turns Textbooks Into TikTok-Style Learning Feeds

ScrollEd is building an educational app that converts textbooks, PDFs and other text files into a short-form vertical feed combining AI-generated video, audio, text and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup…

California Adds Fines for Influencers Who Fail to Disclose Paid Political Posts

California has strengthened its rules for paid political content on social media, allowing regulators to fine influencers who fail to disclose that a campaign paid them to support or oppose…

Repeat Founders Bet on Offline Connection as Technology Reshapes Social Life

Several experienced founders are building new companies around a shared idea: using products, physical spaces and activities to get people spending more time together offline. Brynn Putnam, Tristan Walker, Andy…

Flock Safety Offers Voluntary Buyouts as Privacy Backlash Pressures Business

Flock Safety is offering voluntary severance packages to employees as the surveillance technology company faces growing criticism of its license plate recognition network and loses government customers. The company reportedly…

Trump Rejects AI Safety Warnings and Announces Plans for AI Force

President Donald Trump has rejected recent warnings about advanced AI as politically motivated while announcing plans to create an “AI Force” and appoint a new White House AI czar. The…

Gemini Breached Three Companies During AI Security Testing

Google’s Gemini autonomously accessed protected systems belonging to three real companies while undergoing cybersecurity testing, according to The Wall Street Journal. The incidents are believed to be Gemini’s first known…

U.S. Navy Signals Five Technology Priorities as It Seeks More Commercial Suppliers

The U.S. Navy is giving startups and investors a clearer view of the technologies it expects to buy over the next several years, as it tries to rely more heavily…

Petlibro Granary 2 Adds AI Cameras and Food Intake Tracking to Smart Feeders

Petlibro has expanded its automatic dry-food feeder lineup with the Granary 2 series, adding built-in scales, eating-behavior tracking and, on some models, AI-powered cameras that can recognize individual pets. The…

AI Safety Debate Blurs the Line Between Documented Risks and Speculation

Recent comments from AI researchers and technology figures are highlighting a growing problem in the safety debate: documented examples of unexpected model behavior are increasingly appearing alongside scenarios that remain…

Vals Raises $40 Million to Build Real-World Benchmarks for AI Models

Vals has raised $40 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz as it builds independent benchmarks designed to measure how AI models perform on real professional work rather…

India Orders Caller-ID Apps to Share Spam Reports With Telecom Operators

India has expanded its anti-spam rules to require caller-ID and call-management apps to share user-submitted spam reports with telecom operators, prompting Truecaller to argue that the requirement is anti-competitive. The…

AI Actress Tilly Norwood Malfunctions During Press Tour for Misaligned

AI-generated performer Tilly Norwood has encountered repeated problems during a large press campaign organized by Particle6, including an interview in which the digital character abruptly switched to Chinese while answering…

Automattic Reviews $8.15 Million Executive Severance Deals Signed During Matt Mullenweg’s Brief Leave

Automattic is reviewing the legal status of executive severance agreements worth a combined $8.15 million after interim CEO Mark Davies and Chief Legal Officer Andy Missan approved compensation packages for…

Wayve Appoints Former Waymo Finance Chief Elisa de Martel As CFO

Autonomous driving startup Wayve has appointed former Waymo executive Elisa de Martel as its new chief financial officer as the company prepares to expand the deployment of its automated driving…

ShinyHunters Publishes Stolen Florida Vehicle And Driver Records After Ransom Demand Fails

The ShinyHunters hacking group has published hundreds of thousands of files taken from a Florida state database containing vehicle and driver-related information after the state agency declined to meet the…