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Powell McCormick served as deputy national security advisor to President Donald Trump.

French defense tech company Harmattan AI is now valued at $1.4 billion after raising a $200 million Series B round led by Dassault Aviation, which is best known for making the Rafale fighter jet.

African defense company Terra comes out of stealth with an $11.75M round led by Joe Lonsdale's 8VC.

Motional says it will launch a driverless robotaxi service in Las Vegas before the end of 2026.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page appear to be pulling back from the state where they co-founded Google.

Instagram says that although some users received suspicious-looking password reset requests, it has not been breached.

This follows an investigation by the Guardian that found Google AI Overviews offering misleading information in response to some health-related queries.

Small modular reactor startups are betting that mass manufacturing will help them bring costs down. But are they underestimating the challenge?

Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok.

Google said that merchants can now offer discounts to users directly in AI mode results

The partnership will grow Wing's drone delivery service to more than 270 Walmart stores by 2027.

The Federal Communications Commission has given SpaceX approval to launch another 7,500 of its second generation Starlink satellites.

An intellectual property lawyer says OpenAI is "putting itself at great risk" with this approach.

If the robots don't always give a totally accurate representation of where commercial deployment is at the moment, they do give visitors a peek at where their parent companies might be headed.

A former SandboxAQ executive filed a wrongful termination lawsuit filled with shocking allegations. The company is fighting back, hard.

CES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of days occupied by press conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMD and previews from Sunday’s Unveiled event. 

Ozlo Sleepbuds are going to have a big year, with new products, AI features, and more.

Two smaller companies, Oklo and TerraPower, along with Vistra, a large energy company, just signed agreements with Meta.

Elon Musk's AI company has restricted Grok's controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool invited heated criticism from across the world for letting users generate sexualized images of women and children.

In a blog post published Friday morning, Ben Horowitz writes that "as the American leader in Venture Capital, the fate of new technology in the United States rests partly on our shoulders." It's the kind of statement certain to cause agita at rival firms.