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The gap between Apple's standard and budget smart watches has never felt smaller. 

Flipkart is set to become the most valuable startup to shift its headquarters back to India ahead of a planned IPO.

The Trump administration wants the industry to reach a 1:1 ratio of domestically produced and imported chips.

The Trump administration wants the industry to reach a 1:1 ratio of domestically produced and imported chips.

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A number of investors are competing for the opportunity to purchase the app, and if a deal were to go through, the platform's U.S. business could have its valuation soar to upward of $60 billion.

Anode Technology Company wants to build mobile battery generators for construction sites, live events, and EV fleets. But first it has to avoid the pitfalls that claimed its predecessor, Moxion.

Sierra Space's Dream Chaser spaceplane is facing an identity crisis after NASA changed contract terms to remove its guarantee to buy cargo flights to the ISS.

As iOS 26 is rolling out to all users, developers have been updating their apps to include features powered by Apple's local AI models.

Security researchers found the exposed Indian bank transfer records and the data was eventually secured, but nobody wants to take responsibility for the security lapse.

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Vice President JD Vance said that the deal would value TikTok US at "around $14 billion."

Think TikTok or Instagram Reels, but every single video you come across is essentially just AI slop.

Call recording app Neon was one of the top-ranked iPhone apps, but was pulled offline after a security bug allowed any logged-in user to access the call recordings and transcripts of any other user.

The investigation was sparked by a story in The Guardian that reported that Unit 8200, the elite Israel military intelligence unit, was using Azure cloud storage to house data on phone calls obtained through the surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.  

The price hike for H1B visas could have detrimental impact on the startup industry, experts say.

The company's regulatory policy team is trying to clean up a mess that CEO Elon Musk spent $300 million to help create.

Spotify sets the record straight about the distribution rights of artists, podcasters, creators, and authors on the platform.

Subscribers to ChatGPT's $200-a-month Pro plan will get to try out Pulse, OpenAI's latest agent product.

Threads is developing a new feature that would let users control what they see by 'tagging' the algorithm.

The recruiting startup has over 2,500 customers, including recruiters at Perplexity, Ramp and OpenAI.

Food supply chains are notoriously messy. Orders arrive through different channels, staff spend hours manually entering them into clunky enterprise software systems, and compliance often depends on spreadsheets. For decades, software vendors have tried, with mixed success, to modernize the workflows behind the global movement of perishable goods. Now, a Y Combinator startup called Burnt […]

The company will be required to pay a $1 billion civil penalty and provide $1.5 billion in refunds back to an estimated 35 million consumers harmed by the company's "deceptive Prime enrollment practices," the FTC says.

These online communities have become more critical in a time LGBTQ+ rights are under attack in the U.S.

A new test from OpenAI aims to understand how close AI is to outperforming humans at economically valuable work.

xAI has reached a deal with the U.S. GSA to sell Grok to federal agencies for 42 cents over 18 months, undercutting OpenAI and Anthropic.