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Designed to autonomously resolve help desk tickets, Risotto has raised $10 million in seed funding in a round led by Bonfire Ventures.

The phone's display unfolds twice to reveal a 10-inch display, which is the largest screen ever on a Galaxy phone.

“We’re on the cusp of a completely new way of shopping,” Gates told TechCrunch.

SuperAgent is Airtable's first standalone product in its 13-year history, and signals both the company's ambitions and the reality of the current AI moment: every serious software player is racing to prove they can deliver on agents.

Pinterest says it's "reallocating resources to AI-focused roles and teams that drive AI adoption and execution" and "prioritizing AI‑powered products and capabilities."

A new leading bidder has appeared in the Luminar bankruptcy case: Redmond, Washington-based MicroVision, which beat out Quantum Computing Inc.'s bid by $5 million.

The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens.

Flora's node-based design tool is being used by companies like Pentagram and Lionsgate.

Uber is not developing its own robotaxis again; instead it plans to collect and offer data. It's a bet that more volume will help autonomous vehicle partners solve the weirdest edge cases.

This is the El Segundo, California-based startup's second raise in less than a year.

“We assess a lot of AI chatbots at Common Sense Media, and they all have risks, but Grok is among the worst we’ve seen,” Robbie Torney of Common Sense Media said.

Edenlux builds wearable tech to protect and train your eyes, inspired by its founder’s personal vision recovery.

SpotDraft now processes over 1 million contracts annually using its AI tool, with contract volumes up 173% year-over-year.

The tech giant did not admit wrongdoing in the case.

Ricursive joins Recursive and Unconventional AI in raising massive funds at multi-billion valuations out of the gate.

In the coming months, Meta is going to explore a premium experience on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp that gives users access to special features and more control over how they share and connect, while keeping the core experiences free. 

Many members of the international games industry are skipping the 2026 Game Developers Conference because of the growing ICE presence and other concerns.

Unwavering Trump loyalist and VC Keith Rabois caused his colleague and his firm's founder to distance themseves from his comments on ICE.

The YouTubers claim Snap, like others, used AI datasets meant for research and academic use to train its AI models.

From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.

UpScrolled's TikTok alternative is climbing up the App Store's top charts.

A company called Life Electric Vehicle Holdings has emerged as the top bidder for Rad Power's assets. It's not clear what the company plans to do with them, though.

Industrial AI startup CVector built a brain and nervous system for big industry. Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger challenge: showing customers and investors how this AI-powered software layer translates to real savings on an industrial scale.  The New York-based startup has had some success following its pre-seed funding […]

Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on open protocols, has had a busy weekend.

Claude users will now be able to call up interactive apps inside the chatbot interface, with Cowork integration coming soon.

The 12-year-old firm raised $360,360,360 for its fifth fund. And there's a reason for that number.

The timing of these outages lines up with the long-awaited creation of a separate U.S. TikTok entity last week.

Europe-based venture fund 2150 raised the money to invest in climate tech startups that help solve cities' carbon footprint.

The London High Court awarded the London-based satirist and human rights activist Ghanem Al-Masarir more than £3 million, after finding the Saudi government hacked his phone and was likely behind a physical attack targeting him in London.

More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities. 

Microsoft has announced the launch of its latest chip, the Maia 200, which the company describes as a silicon workhorse designed for scaling AI inference. The 200, which follows the company’s Maia 100 released in 2023, has been technically outfitted to run powerful AI models at faster speeds and with more efficiency, the company has […]

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