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YouTube found that Shorts with Shopping product stickers saw over 40% more clicks on products than Shorts with the Shopping button. 

It's the latest cyberattack on Iran claimed by a pro-Israeli hacking group since the latest flare up in tensions between the two countries.

Investment app Grifin secured a $11 million Series A funding round.

U.S. President Donald Trump will issue another extension to decide the fate of TikTok, pushing it by 90 days, the White House said on Tuesday.

Pope Leo XIV, the new American pope, is making the threat of AI to humanity a key issue of his legacy, even as the technology industry has spent years attempting to make friends with the Vatican. 

With Polar as their ‘Merchant of Record’ responsible for handling billing and taxes, developers can sell online products and SaaS subscriptions globally from day one.

The latest San Francisco startup culture drama happened on Monday night. And it occurred over “the most legendary party that never happened."

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a hiring spree lately, trying to staff up Meta’s new superintelligence team with top-tier AI researchers from competing labs. To work on a team led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and at a desk physically near Zuckerberg, Meta has reportedly offered employees from OpenAI […]

The contract could put the model maker in competition with the OpenAI services that Microsoft wants to sell to the DoD.

Tesla, Kia, and Volkswagen took six of the top 10 spots in the 2025 American-Made Index, which ranks vehicles built and bought in the U.S.

AI companies are battling to dominate the industry, but sometimes, they’re also battling in Pokémon gyms. As Google and Anthropic both study how their latest AI models navigate early Pokémon games, the results can be as amusing as they are enlightening — and this time, Google DeepMind has written in a report that Gemini 2.5 […]

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy expects that AI automations will both change how people work and change the number of people needed.

Meta is reportedly working on a pair of AI smart glasses with Prada.

Tumblr users are complaining that content is being falsely labeled as mature, the latest tech company to grapple with automated flagging and takedowns.

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The buzzy AI-powered autonomous vehicle software company doubles its valuation from last year -- and then some.

Facebook announced on Tuesday that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation.

Rumors of these layoffs began back in April as Intel looks to refocus on its core business units and shed additional bloat.

The apparent cyberattack comes as Israel and Iran engage in a days-long escalating military conflict.

The apparent cyberattack comes as Israel and Iran engage in a days-long escalating military conflict.

Spend management startup Ramp announced on Tuesday that it raised a $200 million Series E led by its largest investor, Founders Fund.

Spend management startup Ramp announced on Tuesday that it raised a $200 million Series E led by its largest investor, Founders Fund.

Anysphere launched a new $200-a-month subscription plan for its popular AI coding tool, Cursor, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. The new plan, Ultra, offers users 20x more usage on AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI compared to the company’s $20-a-month subscription plan, Pro. Anysphere also says Cursor users […]

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Waymo is expanding its commercial robotaxi service area by another 80 square miles, a move that brings its driverless vehicles into new parts of Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Last month, streaming services accounted for 44.8% of all television viewership, their largest share to date.