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The DTC skin, hair, and menopause care brand will use the non-dilutive capital to super-charge customer acquisition.

As adult riders report new age-verification checks, the self-driving car company says it’s continuing to “refine” its system in places where kids aren’t allowed to ride alone.

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

ChatGPT’s new privacy policy states how the company uses cookies for tracking, to turn free users into paying subscribers.

The exploit, dubbed CopyFail and tracked as CVE-2026-31431, allows hackers to take over PCs and data center servers. The Linux vulnerabilities have been patched—but many machines remain at risk.

Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

Lettuce Grow’s Farmstand is sure to impress, and it’s 20 percent off for Mother’s Day.

At WIRED Health, pioneering Alzheimer's researcher John Hardy outlined the stakes—and next steps—of where treatment is headed next.

Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital, has a new venture that is reportedly buying land near large power sources.

This week's GamesIndustry.biz podcast is now live, once again recapping the main stories of the last seven days. This week, Lewis called in from GamesCom Latam to share the view from the Brazilian development scene, and I shared my thoughts on two days with some very high-level executives at the ESA's iicon conference.

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Access Now, the group that organizes RightsCon, says Zambian officials asked it to exclude Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has continued its victory lap around the industry's award ceremonies by scooping Best Game at the BIG Festival Awards.

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The deals come as the DOD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.

A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from updating the Linux-based operating system.

Two new projects, including one from a Pulitzer-winning reporter, claim they’ve solved the mystery of Bitcoin’s creator. So why does the hunt continue?

Eliana Russi, head of B2B at Gamescom Latam, gives an emphatic answer when I ask what Brazil's game development scene needs to take it to the next level. "Money!" she cries, hands in the air.

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Roblox has announced a photorealism upscaler called Roblox Reality, which will generate high-fidelity visuals on top of the platform’s core engine.

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Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the “nonprofit for the […]

The ESA's first event since the late, largely lamented E3 has been built with a very different objective. Rather than a brash, sprawling conference centre with consumers as the explicit audience and implicit attendees, iicon took place on one stage and a handful of meeting rooms in a new, sparsely-populated casino towards the bottom end of the Las Vegas strip. The audience could be counted – just about – in hundreds, rather than tens of thousands; the stage presentations were about strategy, government policy and brand partnerships. The attendee list was ruthlessly policed, the news value was negligible, the coffee was good: the only similarity to E3 was the timezone and the logo on the invite.

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French union Le Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (STJV) described Nacon's decision to close Spiders as a "premeditated and deliberate choice" and called for a boycott of the company.

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