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Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and he insists it will actually ship products.

OpenAI is so frustrated with Apple over a ChatGPT integration that failed to deliver the subscribers and prominence it expected that the company is now actively exploring legal action against the iPhone maker.

A new open source gadget called Clawdmeter turns Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard for AI coding power users.

Short-form video is built for mobile, so it may seem counterintuitive, but it's true: YouTube Shorts are becoming quite popular on the big screen.

A year ago, it looked like this day would never happen for Cerebras.

OpenAI said the damage was limited to the employees’ devices and did not affect user data nor its production systems, and none of its intellectual property was stolen.

Spotify will let creators distribute and monetize video podcasts on Apple Podcasts using Apple’s HLS streaming technology, without changing their existing workflows.

Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.

While the Meta-owned social network billed Instants as a new format to share real-life moments as they’re happening, many users are looking for a way  to turn off the feature, especially those who have ended up accidentally sending images to others not fully understanding how the feature works. 

A group of likely Russian government hackers tried to hack a security researcher who investigates spyware attacks. He was then able to turn the tables on the hackers and reveal details of their espionage campaign.

This is Cisco's latest layoff in recent years, while the company's chief executive touts record revenue and growth.

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Wirestock has over 700,000 creators on its platform, which supplies photos, videos and 3D content to AI labs.

Uber plans to open two new engineering campuses with a capacity of nearly 10,000 people in India by the end of 2027.

"The conversation is sort of happening in Silicon Valley around one thing, and a totally different conversation is happening among consumers."

Legal tech startups, including Clio, which just hit $500 million in ARR, are seeing massive customer adoption.

Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic productivity software.

Gas turbines at xAI's Colossus 2 data center have drawn a lawsuit over the company's use of "mobile" gas turbines as power plants.

The head of product for Claude Code and Cowork says that the next big step for AI is proactivity.

What would some of the world's largest repositories of malware look like if they were stacked as hard drives, one on top of the other?