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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.

TechCrunch obtained a sample of the stolen data, which contained names, email addresses, dates of birth, and the user's approximate geographic location. Under Armour confirmed some sensitive information was taken in the breach.

Google has hired the CEO and top top behind voice AI startup Hume AI, signaling that voice is increasingly becoming the preferred interface over screens.

Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.

Since 2024, Anthropic's performance optimization team has given job seekers a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff — but as AI coding tools have gotten better, the test has had to change a lot to stay ahead of AI-assisted cheating.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin had previously suggested that the third launch of the mega-rocket would take the space company's robotic lunar lander to the moon.

Now available in the US and Canada, Spotify's AI-powered Prompted Playlists let users describe what they want to hear using natural language commands.

With these new features, Snap is likely looking to appease regulators and parents over concerns about safety and screen time on its platform.

Quadric aims to help companies and governments build programmable on-device AI chips that can run fast-changing models locally.

Tiger Global and Microsoft are offering up their full stakes in the company, while Walmart is choosing to retain its majority stake, and selling up to 45.9 million shares.

Big tech companies and upcoming startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. A lot of those experiences are limited to text or voice, and kids might not find that captivating. Three former Google employees want to get over that hurdle with their generative AI-powered interactive app, Sparkli. Sparkli was […]

Should this wearable materialize, it could be released as early as 2027, according to a report on the device.

SGLang, which originated as an open-source research project at Ion Stoica’s UC Berkeley lab, has raised capital from Accel.

From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot happened last year.

X says the new feature, similar to Bluesky's Starter Packs, will arrive in the coming weeks.

The feature, now public, lets you create to-do's and action items by speaking naturally to the app's AI.

Siri could look more like ChatGPT than its current state as an integrated feature across Apple products.

The newly revised document offers a roadmap for what Anthropic says is a safer and more helpful chatbot experience.

Two origin ID apps, NonUSA and Made O'Meter, are seeing downloads surge as Europeans boycott US-made goods.

Research from startup GPTZero points to the impossible problem prestigious conferences face in the age of AI slop.

The network will be designed for enterprise, data center, and government customers and could offer an alternative to SpaceX's Starlink service.

The startup plans to expand to at least four new U.S. states in 2026.

The medical info database has doubled in valuation since last raise in October, despite encroachment from model makers.

Ads on Threads will roll out gradually to users over the coming months, Meta says.

Soon, YouTube TV will allow viewers to customize the multiview feature to watch any four channels they want side by side.

At the time, people felt like 2016 was cursed -- but at least we did not yet have a word for "doomscrolling."

Aliisa Rosenthal has found a new career as a VC. She knows what startups can do to protect themselves from the model makers eating their markets.