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WeDoSolar pivots to B2B, after stake acquired by Chinese solar giant

US Justice Department sues to block HPE’s $14B acquisition of Juniper Networks

Climate change ignited LA’s wildfire risk. These startups want to extinguish it

Anthropic’s CEO says DeepSeek shows US export rules are working

Reelo stands out among the apps building a ‘TikTok for Bluesky’

OpenAI-backed 1X acquires Kind Humanoid

Viral AI company DeepSeek releases new image model family

TalkTalk investigating data breach after hacker claims theft of customer data

Perplexity submits a new bid for TikTok

DeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talking

Why Reid Hoffman feels optimistic about our AI future

Amid soaring demand for data centers, real estate companies look to become energy developers

Trump administration reportedly negotiating an Oracle takeover of TikTok

Will states lead the way on AI regulation?

OpenAI wants to take over your browser

US users dumped RedNote after Trump paused the TikTok ban

Roli releases a 49-key educational keyboard and generative AI play

A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs

Samsung Galaxy S25 line compared

Spotify’s educational audio courses could be coming to U.S.

Trump moves to sink offshore wind

Funding to fintechs continues to decline, but at a slower pace

At the Microsoft Excel World Championship, selfies and a ‘hype’ tunnel

Flipboard’s new app Surf adds its own video feed, too

DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks

AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAI

The Pentagon says AI is speeding up its ‘kill chain’

Meta announces a new video editing app called Edits amidst TikTok and CapCut ban

TikTok is restoring service in the US

TikTok goes dark in the US

Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok

FTC says partnerships like Microsoft-OpenAI raise antitrust concerns

What we know about the TikTok ban

Amazon bought more renewable power last year than any other company

As TikTok faces a US shutdown, here are some alternative apps to check out

Big Tech expands its reach with new startup acquisitions and investments

Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol

Instagram Threads won’t share a timeline for account portability

This Week in AI: Will Biden’s AI actions survive the Trump era?

A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs

ChatGPT now lets you schedule reminders and recurring tasks

Meta to cut roughly 5% of its workforce based on performance

Apple joins consortium to help develop next-gen AI data center tech

Top New York VC Ben Lerer says more mid-sized VC firms are heading for failure

The first AI chip startup to go public in 2025 will be Blaize

A new campaign aims to safeguard social media from billionaires using Bluesky’s underlying tech

Groww, India’s biggest trading app, prepares for IPO

UK in-home healthcare provider Cera raises $150M to expand its AI platform

Watch Duty was downloaded 2 million times during this week’s LA fires

CES 2025: Self-driving cars were everywhere, plus other transportation tech trends

Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasoning’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450

What’s behind ballooning video game budgets?

I got soaked driving the Arc Sport electric boat

The new Atari handheld knows its market

Scout Motors CEO Scott Keogh says modern cars have become ‘dystopian’ and ‘disconnected’

A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs

This Week in AI: More capable AI is coming, but will its benefits be evenly distributed?

BMW’s new UI puts widgets on the windshield

At CES 2025, Uber teams up with Nvidia to scale autonomous driving faster

What the heck happened at fintech Bench?

Google puts $1M into 3D design app Rooms after more than 1 million ‘rooms’ created

Pebble reveals its EV travel trailer designed for digital nomads

Sam Altman has choice words for the OpenAI board members who fired him

Toyota’s CES 2025 press conference: How to watch

YouTuber LegalEagle sues PayPal over ‘sleeping leech’ Honey extension

Roborock’s Roomba competitor gets a robot arm

United Airlines accelerates its Starlink rollout, with first commercial flight planned for spring

From forced landings to stuffed animal heads, headhunter Peterson Conway is defense tech’s wildest power broker

Tenable CEO Amit Yoran dies

Lyft will credit NYC riders for congestion fee throughout January

FTC orders AI accessibility startup accessiBe to pay $1M for misleading advertising

Hydrogen tax credit rules give startups clarity while boosting nuclear and carbon capture

These 55 robotics companies are hiring

Meta policy chief Nick Clegg steps down

CES 2025: What to expect from the year’s first and biggest tech show

Chinese government hackers reportedly targeted US Treasury’s sanctions office during December cyberattack

Police investigating Cybertruck fire outside Trump hotel in Vegas

People are playing a new DOOM-themed CAPTCHA