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Jest, a marketplace for messaging games, emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding.

Lucena got the idea for Mappa after trying to build a marketing team but continually feeling like she had made the wrong hires.

Samsung's new privacy screen feature on Galaxy S26 Ultra was the most notable feature of the event.

The Meta-owned social platform says that while it already blocks users from searching for suicide and self-harm content, these new alerts are designed to make sure parents are aware if their teen is repeatedly trying to search for this content so that they can support them.

Salesforce reported a solid year-end earnings and then pulled out all the stops to ward off more talk of the death of its business to AI.

Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed. The startup has seen early customer traction from AI search tools like ChatGPT.

OpenAI introduced ads to ChatGPT earlier this month

Peter Steinberger talks about the creation of his viral AI agent OpenClaw and how being more "playful" makes for a better way to learn AI coding.

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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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.