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General purpose tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are not designed for this use, making mental health professionals wary.

Recent findings also show that video podcasting -- while popular -- is not necessarily replacing audio shows.

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The Trump administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against countries' attempts to regulate how American tech companies handle foreigners' data.

It's the Los Angeles trucking startup's first acquisition — the latest in a series of moves to spin up new revenue streams.

Atlassian is unveiling "agents in Jira" which gives users the ability to assign and manage work given to AI agents the same as humans.

Harper is an AI-native insurance brokerage that just raised a $45 million combined Series A and seed, after a member of YC's Winter 2025 cohort.

Users will be able to choose from Alexa styles like Brief, Chill or Sweet, Amazon says.

Adobe Firefly is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage to create a first draft of the final video based on user instructions.

The HR tech startup, which currently operates in Brazil, has raised a $17.25 million Series A.

ChatGPT and rivals are testing whether India's massive AI user boom can translate into paying customers as free offers wind down.

The startup was founded by former Google TPU engineers in 2023.

Major automakers, tech giants, AI companies, and chipmakers are all trying to get a piece of Wayve.

Spanish startup Multiverse Computing has released a new version of its HyperNova 60B model on Hugging Face that, it says, bests Mistral's model.

Apple complies with new age assurance laws in the U.S. and abroad, including those that block users from downloading apps aimed at adults.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company’s employees have gone all in on AI, going so far as to build a chatbot of him that they use to practice their pitches.

Stripe might be looking to buy PayPal, or parts of it, per early reports.

Peter Williams, the former head of U.S. hacking tools maker L3Harris Trenchant, was sentenced to seven years in prison for stealing and selling his former company’s hacking and surveillance tools to a Russian firm.

Form Energy's iron-air batteries will store wind and solar power to keep the data center running 24/7.

Automotive marketplace CarGurus was the target of a data breach in which the names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers were stolen.

The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday to loosen AI guardrails or face potential penalties, escalating a high-stakes dispute that raises questions about government leverage, vendor dependence, and investor confidence in defense tech.

The company added that 90% of users won’t need to verify their age and will be able to keep using Discord as usual.

An email chain with Instagram head Adam Mosseri indicated the company was aware of teen safety issues in DMs in 2018, but didn't launch its unwanted nudity filter until 2024.

AI has brought the startup world the rise of startups that instantly hit multimillion ARR. Stripe revealed some data that shows how common this has become.

By bringing Reels to TVs, Instagram looking to better compete with YouTube, which largely dominates the TV space.

The U.S. Treasury announced it was imposing sanctions against a Russian broker of zero-day exploits, its founder and two affiliates, citing a threat to U.S. national security. Another affiliated zero-day broker in the United Arab Emirates was also sanctioned.

Google is adding a new feature to Opal to create automated workflows

Spotify and Liquid Death launched what might be the wildest product of the year: a speaker shaped like a urn.

The company is implementing two suspension types: streaming suspensions and chatting suspensions.

Earlier this month, OpenAI launched a new platform called OpenAI Frontier for enterprises to build and manage agents, but OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said that businesses haven’t yet seen AI adoption at scale. “One of the interesting things and some of the inspiration for the work we’ve been doing lately around OpenAI Frontier is we […]

Stripe has conducted another tender offer, where employees sell shares. Investors include Thrive Capital, Coatue, a16z, and Stripe itself

Now the only reason to get the full Premium subscription is ad-free music and music videos.

Wyclef Jean used Google's AI music tools on his new song "Back in Abu Dhabi."

Fintech giant Marquis is suing its firewall provider SonicWall, claiming that an earlier breach with SonicWall allowed hackers to deploy ransomware on Marquis' network.