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North Koreans behind nearly half of US tech industry hacks, says CrowdStrike

North Koreans behind nearly half of US tech industry hacks, says CrowdStrike

North Koreans hackers posing as remote IT workers and recruiters remain a major threat to U.S., European, and Asian comp...

2 days ago
Wing drone delivery might not be a novelty anymore

Wing drone delivery might not be a novelty anymore

Wing is expanding into seven more U.S. cities through its partnership with Walmart....

2 days ago
Netflix expands revamped mobile app across Asia and doubles down on kids’ gaming

Netflix expands revamped mobile app across Asia and doubles down on kids’ gaming

The media giant is pushing to expand its mobile and gaming business....

2 days ago
‘AI-pilled’ firms spend $7,500 per employee each month on AI

‘AI-pilled’ firms spend $7,500 per employee each month on AI

The most AI-obsessed firms are spending roughly $7,500 monthly per employee on AI, per Ramp AI Index. That's not more th...

2 days ago
The Indian government got cold feet on Starlink just before SpaceX’s IPO

The Indian government got cold feet on Starlink just before SpaceX’s IPO

Problems with Starlink's India expansion could challenge SpaceX's IPO growth story....

2 days ago
How memory tools can make AI models worse

How memory tools can make AI models worse

New research suggests that AI memory systems can degrade model performance and encourage sycophantic tendencies....

2 days ago
Zest launches a restaurant discovery app powered by where people actually eat

Zest launches a restaurant discovery app powered by where people actually eat

Backed by Alexis Ohanian’s 776 and Kindred Ventures, Zest uses transaction data and AI to generate restaurant recommenda...

2 days ago
Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable

Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable

Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic's new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cy...

2 days ago
Why enterprise AI will be a major focus at VivaTech 2026

Why enterprise AI will be a major focus at VivaTech 2026

While Silicon Valley continues pushing aggressively into large language models and consumer-facing AI products, many Eur...

2 days ago
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in

Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in

AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies ...

2 days ago
The three hard-tech moonshots fueling SpaceX’s unbelievable IPO

The three hard-tech moonshots fueling SpaceX’s unbelievable IPO

Most of the value in SpaceX's IPO is effectively a call option on the company's ambitious space data center plans....

2 days ago
Pinterest bets on creators with Amazon Storefront integration

Pinterest bets on creators with Amazon Storefront integration

Pinterest is adding support for Amazon Storefronts, allowing creators to earn affiliate commissions more easily while sh...

2 days ago
ServiceNow tells customers a bug left some of their data exposed to the internet

ServiceNow tells customers a bug left some of their data exposed to the internet

ServiceNow is used by thousands of enterprises to automate their internal processes, but says several customers had data...

2 days ago
Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business

Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business

The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ve...

2 days ago
Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats

Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats

Decart is launching Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous v...

2 days ago
Snapchat limits users under 16 to sharing Spotlights with friends

Snapchat limits users under 16 to sharing Spotlights with friends

Users under 16 years old will get a separate profile to show Stories and Spotlight posts to friends that they follow bac...

2 days ago
Why everyone’s an energy company now

Why everyone’s an energy company now

Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy st...

2 days ago
Avalanche’s desktop fusion reactor delivers blistering-hot plasma

Avalanche’s desktop fusion reactor delivers blistering-hot plasma

Fusion power startup Avalanche Energy said its reactor prototype heated a plasma to over 10 million degrees C....

2 days ago
Why two SpaceX alumni are betting on solar and batteries to power the AI craze

Why two SpaceX alumni are betting on solar and batteries to power the AI craze

Ambrosia Energy wants to build power plants in less than 12 months while undercutting natural gas. It hopes to build gig...

2 days ago
Waymo says it built a better benchmark for comparing robotaxis to humans

Waymo says it built a better benchmark for comparing robotaxis to humans

Waymo created a new computer model to help it better understand how humans behave in crash scenarios that its robotaxis ...

2 days ago
Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance

Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance

The 168-megawatt facility will support Meta's global AI computing needs and can be expanded over time....

3 days ago
Top Lucid Motors executive departs amid new CEO’s leadership shakeup

Top Lucid Motors executive departs amid new CEO’s leadership shakeup

The exec, Emad Dlala, has left just a few months after being promoted to SVP of engineering and digital, TechCrunch has ...

3 days ago
Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars

Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars

Google just made it significantly cheaper to enjoy its budget AI subscription tier....

3 days ago
How Justin Ernest invested nearly $400M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund

How Justin Ernest invested nearly $400M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund

Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to inv...

3 days ago
How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund

How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund

Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to inv...

3 days ago
GM joins race to build batteries for AI data centers and the grid

GM joins race to build batteries for AI data centers and the grid

GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factori...

3 days ago
Hey Siri, here’s what I actually want from AI

Hey Siri, here’s what I actually want from AI

I'm desperate for a personal AI assistant, but do I really want to become the kind of person who can't function without ...

3 days ago
Anthropic’s Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button

Anthropic’s Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is going to be a big hit with the web's vibe coders....

3 days ago
Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models? 

Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models? 

If those same AI workloads can be handled by cheaper models without affecting quality, it would mean a massive shift in ...

3 days ago
WWDC 2026: Everything announced on Siri AI, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence, and more

WWDC 2026: Everything announced on Siri AI, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence, and more

Apple primarily made the case for an improved experience with its longstanding Siri assistant, which like most other ann...

3 days ago
CISA gives US federal agencies three days to fix a VPN bug under attack by a ransomware gang

CISA gives US federal agencies three days to fix a VPN bug under attack by a ransomware gang

Check Point said hackers broke into dozens of organizations by exploiting a VPN bug in several of its products used acro...

3 days ago
Anthropic’s Claude Fable is a version of Mythos the public can access today

Anthropic’s Claude Fable is a version of Mythos the public can access today

Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model available to the public. The model comes with guardr...

3 days ago
Rivian starts deliveries of its all-important R2 SUV

Rivian starts deliveries of its all-important R2 SUV

Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe has called it "maybe the most important thing we've launched to date."...

3 days ago
Apple’s foldable iPhone could be just around the corner

Apple’s foldable iPhone could be just around the corner

The iOS 27 developer beta includes code that references the fold state and screen angle of a device....

3 days ago
It’s not FAANG anymore. It’s MANGOS.

It’s not FAANG anymore. It’s MANGOS.

With SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI all eyeing massive public debuts, the tech industry may soon have a new class of corp...

3 days ago
Apple says it may remove some apps from the App Store if they don’t attract users

Apple says it may remove some apps from the App Store if they don’t attract users

Apple may begin removing existing apps that it considers stale, low-value, or unable to attract users....

3 days ago
iOS 27 features we didn’t see on stage

iOS 27 features we didn’t see on stage

While iOS 27 isn't bringing major changes, it's still got many small features that could improve everyday usage for iPho...

3 days ago
Apple brings streaming-style subscription bundles to the App Store 

Apple brings streaming-style subscription bundles to the App Store 

Apple is expanding its App Bundles feature to allow developers to partner with one another on discounted subscription pa...

3 days ago
Apple’s App Store rolls out personalized recommendations

Apple’s App Store rolls out personalized recommendations

Apple will now recommend apps based on your downloads and behavior....

3 days ago
Sandstone raises $30M to bring AI to in-house legal teams

Sandstone raises $30M to bring AI to in-house legal teams

Sandstone's Series A was led by Lightspeed Partners, with participation from Sequoia....

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