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Google Sheets gets a Gemini-powered upgrade to analyze data faster and create visuals

Bluesky-based Instagram alternative Flashes launches publicly

A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs

Apple introduces new child safety initiatives, including an age-checking system for apps

Here are all the tech companies rolling back DEI or still committed to it — so far

Inception emerges from stealth with a new type of AI model

Hacked crypto exchange Bybit offers $140M bounty to trace stolen funds

ElevenLabs is launching its own speech-to-text model

Sweden’s Lovable, an app-building AI platform, rakes in $15M after spectacular growth

What to expect from Amazon’s Alexa event on Wednesday

DocUnlock wants to solve a customs bottleneck

DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

Electric aircraft founder Kyle Clark threw out the Silicon Valley playbook

This mental health chatbot aims to fill the counseling gap at understaffed schools

How I Podcast: Summer Album / Winter Album’s Jody Avirgan

The pain of discontinued items, and the thrill of finding them online

The fallout from HP’s Humane acquisition 

The real reason why oil and gas companies are bullish on carbon capture

Cherryrock Capital raises new $172M fund from all-star investors to back diverse founders

This Week in AI: Maybe we should ignore AI benchmarks for now

Google’s ‘Career Dreamer’ uses AI to help you explore job possibilities

Google pulls Gemini from main search app on iOS

Fintech fundraising is giving me 2021 flashbacks

Fiverr wants gig workers to offload some of their work to AI

Facebook now only stores live videos for 30 days, will delete old broadcasts

X doubles its Premium+ plan prices after xAI releases Grok 3

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3

Thousands protest Elon Musk’s DOGE in NYC on Presidents’ Day

Nextdoor’s Nirav Tolia thinks he can turn things around with AI; he has a lot riding on it

Can sim drivers make the shift to F1? Max Verstappen thinks so

These researchers used NPR Sunday Puzzle questions to benchmark AI ‘reasoning’ models

Researchers are training AI to interpret animal emotions

Broadcom, TSMC reportedly exploring deals that would split up Intel

Apple Intelligence could arrive on Vision Pro in April

xAI’s “Colossus” supercomputer raises health questions in Memphis

Perplexity launches its own freemium ‘deep research’ product

OpenAI teases a ‘simplified’ GPT-5 model

Meta’s next big bet may be humanoid robotics

Meta confirms ‘Project Waterworth,’ a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers

Mastodon is working to add the controversial ‘quote posts’ feature

OpenAI scrubs diversity commitment web page from its site

Seagate acquires Intevac, which makes equipment for hard disk drives, for $119M

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns of ‘race’ to understand AI as it becomes more powerful

Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes

How Musk’s $97.4B bid could gum up OpenAI’s for-profit conversion

Apple brings heart rate monitoring to Powerbeats Pro 2

Perplexity’s Super Bowl ‘tweet’ increased app installs by 50%

Mistral gets down to business

Macron unveils $112B AI investment package, France’s answer to US’ Stargate

Saudi’s BRKZ closes $17M Series A for its construction tech platform

DeepSeek’s R1 reportedly ‘more vulnerable’ to jailbreaking than other AI models

Apple’s new research robot takes a page from Pixar’s playbook

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li says AI policy must be based on ‘science, not science fiction’

Bpifrance will invest $10B in the French AI ecosystem by 2029

DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

Mark Zuckerberg’s charity insists it’s not abandoning its DEI efforts

Stripe makes $1.1 billion crypto bet as it closes on Bridge acquisition

The Elon Musk Act aims to ban ‘special government employees’ from having federal contracts

New target of Paragon spyware comes forward

China may probe Intel for antitrust: report

EU puts out guidance on uses of AI that are banned under its AI Act

A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs

DeepSeek: The countries and agencies that have banned the AI company’s tech

Trump says new US sovereign wealth fund could purchase TikTok

What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor

India expands Aadhaar authentication for businesses, raising privacy concerns

OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT agent for ‘deep research’

Dub: the copy trading app that has teens talking

X expands lawsuit over advertiser ‘boycott’ to include Lego, Nestlé, Pinterest, and others

Adobe exec Scott Belsky departs for indie movie studio A24

DeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talking