| Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch at 21:00 by Kate Park |
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| AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood put out the worst song I’ve ever heard at 16:35 by Amanda Silberling |
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| Nuro is testing its autonomous vehicle tech on Tokyo’s streets at 16:09 by Kirsten Korosec |
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| Google Play is adding new paid and PC games, game trials, community posts, and more at 16:00 by Aisha Malik |
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| Ford’s new AI assistant will help fleet owners know if seatbelts are being used at 15:51 by Kirsten Korosec |
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| Ride hailing inDrive acquires Pakistan’s Krave Mart to bolster grocery delivery at 15:45 by Jagmeet Singh |
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| Zendesk acquires agentic customer service startup Forethought at 15:41 by Julie Bort |
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| India neobank Fi winds down banking services on its platform at 15:17 by Jagmeet Singh |
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| Netflix may have paid $600 million for Ben Affleck’s AI startup at 15:00 by Lauren Forristal |
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| Lovable says it added $100M in revenue last month alone, with just 146 employees at 14:40 by Anna Heim |
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| Quince hits $10B valuation with giant $500M round led by Iconiq at 13:50 by Julie Bort |
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| Alternative app store AltStore PAL joins the fediverse at 13:26 by Sarah Perez |
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| Drivers in fatal Ford BlueCruise crashes were likely distracted before impact at 12:20 by Sean O'Kane |
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| Meta’s Moltbook deal points to a future built around AI agents at 08:11 by Sarah Perez |
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| Replit snags $9B valuation 6 months after hitting $3B at 11:52 by Julie Bort |
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| Pro-Iran hacktivist group says it is behind attack on medical tech giant Stryker at 11:33 by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
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| Breakout Ventures raises $114M fund to back AI science startups at 11:06 by Dominic-Madori Davis |
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| Almost 40 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are at 11:00 by Dominic-Madori Davis |
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| VC mega funds are back with General Catalyst, Spark rumored to be raising billions at 10:53 by Julie Bort |
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| Poppi founder on TikTok, Super Bowl ads, and her return to Shark Tank at 10:47 by Theresa Loconsolo |
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| Hacker broke into FBI and compromised Epstein files, report says at 09:50 by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
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| WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net at 09:43 by Sarah Perez |
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| Rivian spin-out Mind Robotics raises $500M for industrial AI-powered robots at 09:12 by Sean O'Kane |
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| EV startup Harbinger reveals a smaller work truck with electric and hybrid variants at 08:29 by Sean O'Kane |
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| Meta didn’t buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web at 08:11 by Sarah Perez |
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| WhatsApp is launching parent-linked accounts for pre-teens at 08:00 by Ivan Mehta |
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| Amazon expands a program that lets customers shop from other retailers’ sites at 07:48 by Sarah Perez |
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| Meta rolls out new scam detection tools to Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger at 07:41 by Aisha Malik |
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| Lucid Motors ships Apple CarPlay and Android Auto to Gravity SUV owners at 07:29 by Sean O'Kane |
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| Former Apple engineer raises $5M for a note-taking pendant that only records your voice at 07:00 by Ivan Mehta |
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| Canopii looks to succeed where past indoor farms have not at 07:00 by Rebecca Szkutak |
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| TikTok now lets Apple Music subscribers play full songs without leaving the app at 06:00 by Aisha Malik |
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| Google officially acquires Wiz for $32B at 05:56 by Rebecca Bellan |
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| Zoox plans to put its robotaxis on the Uber app in Vegas this year at 05:00 by Sean O'Kane |
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| Health insurance startup Alan reaches €5B valuation at 03:00 by Anna Heim |
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| Anduril snaps up space surveillance firm ExoAnalytic Solutions at 00:01 by Tim Fernholz |
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| Google brings Gemini in Chrome to India at 19:30 by Ivan Mehta |
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| In a vote of confidence for Meta’s Threads, Kalshi adds sharing feature at 16:01 by Julie Bort |
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| Google and Tesla think we’re managing the electrical grid all wrong at 13:42 by Tim De Chant |
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| Amazon launches its healthcare AI assistant on its website and app at 13:10 by Aisha Malik |
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