timef 07/24/2025

Netflix and Spotify teamed up to launch a golf-inspired game as a way to promote “Happy Gilmore 2,” which premieres on Netflix this Friday.

Exclusive: The popular "leaking and cracking" forum left one of its databases exposed to the internet without a password, exposing the IP addresses of its users logging in.

"We're getting a lot of stuff that looks like gold, but it's actually just crap,” said the founder of one security testing firm. AI-generated security vulnerability reports are already having an effect on bug hunting, for better and worse.

Memories.ai's platform can process up to 10 million hours of video. For companies with a lot of video to analyze, the startup wants to provide a contextual layer, complete with searchable indexing, tagging, segments and aggregation.

The feature is launching in the United States today, letting users try on apparel items in Google's Shopping Graph across Search, Google Shopping and product results on Google Images.

LegalOn Technologies, a Tokyo- and San Francisco-headquartered legal tech startup that has built an AI contract review software for legal teams, has raised $50 million in Series E funding led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, along with existing investor World Innovation Lab (WiL), and new investors Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, a law firm […]

Snap Map's new "Home Safe" feature sends one-time alerts to friends, so you don't need to remember to message others that you're back safely.

It’s the first such product to reach the market, and it could unlock a host of fattened-up meat alternatives.

A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.  On Wednesday at 5pm PST, the nonprofit Laude Institute announced the first winner of the K Prize, a multi-round AI coding challenge launched by Databricks and Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski. The winner was a Brazilian […]

When DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese firms released their AI models, Western researchers quickly noticed they sidestepped questions critical of the Chinese Communist Party. U.S. officials later confirmed that these tools are engineered to reflect Beijing’s talking points, raising concerns about censorship and bias. American AI leaders like OpenAI have pointed to this as justification […]

The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up in the AI race.

iRocket is aiming to hit the public markets but the SPAC vehicle has hardly any cash left.

YouTube continues to lead in the streaming market, with ad revenue increasing by 13% to $9.8 billion.

YouTube continues to lead in the streaming market, with ad revenue increasing by 13% to $9.8 billion.

Google shared new stats about its AI features' adoption during its Q2 earnings.

Tesla saw a 17% growth in its services business, but it was not enough to close the gap in falling EV sales, fewer regulatory credits, and a decline in solar and energy storage sales.

The AI Action Plan offers a path, but not a concrete plan, for what the administration is thinking when it comes to chip export restrictions.

An invite-only startup event hosted by former YC and a16z staff will help founders learn to pitch press and run their own social media.

Mastodon is experimenting with a new way to raise money: in-app donation banners.

The Trump administration published its much-anticipated AI Action Plan Wednesday, signaling a sharp shift away from former President Biden’s cautious approach to addressing the risks of AI, and toward a focus on speed, sovereignty, national security, and competing with China.

India's financial crime watchdog filed a complaint against Walmart-backed Myntra, alleging the company violated foreign investment rules by channeling over $191 million through a related-party scheme.

The goal of this wristband is to provide less invasive tools to interact with computers for people with motor disabilities. 

The goal of this wristband is to provide less invasive tools to interact with computers for people with motor disabilities. 

Google announced a handful of new features that will allow users to get more creative with their photo memories, including an option to turn photos into videos, and "remix" photos into different styles, like anime, comics, sketches or 3D animations.

The image to video feature lets creators turn a picture from their camera roll into a a six-second video.

The move is designed to create a more open, competitive environment for the app economy and user choice.

The move is designed to create a more open, competitive environment for the app economy and user choice.

French authorities say they wiretapped a server used by the administrator to access their private messages, which revealed activities relating to cybercrime and ransomware attacks.