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Meet the new European unicorns of 2026

Waymo reportedly raising a $16B funding round

SpaceX seeks federal approval to launch 1 million solar-powered satellite data centers

Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company’s $100B OpenAI investment has stalled

Blue Origin pauses space tourism flights to focus on the moon

SpaceX’s IPO could open the floodgates — and secondaries are booming in the meantime

Uber is literally in the driver’s seat when it comes to AV bets

Anthropic brings agentic plugins to Cowork

Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot  

Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai as the AI race heats up

Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides to and from San Francisco International Airport

AI data labeler Handshake buys Cleanlab, an acquisition target of multiple others

Chrome takes on AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration, agentic features for autonomous tasks

Apple tells Patreon to move creators to in-app purchase for subscriptions by November

Modelence raises $3M to smooth out the vibe-coding stack

Google’s more affordable AI Plus plan rolls out to all markets, including the U.S.

OpenAI launches Prism, a new AI workspace for scientists

Amid Trump attacks and weaponized sanctions, Europeans look to rely less on US tech

The price gap between Waymo and Uber is narrowing

TikTok attributes recent glitches to a power outage at a U.S. data center

Synthesia hits $4B valuation, lets employees cash out

This founder cracked firefighting — now he’s creating an AI gold mine

Science fiction writers, Comic-Con say goodbye to AI

Gmail is having issues with spam and misclassification

Tech CEOs boast and bicker about AI at Davos

SEC drops lawsuit against Winklevoss twins’ Gemini crypto exchange

The Rippling/Deel corporate spying scandal may have taken another wild turn

How did Davos turn into a tech conference?

Meta seeks to limit evidence in child safety case

Former CEO of celeb fav gym Dogpound launches $5M fund to back wellness companies

Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference

OpenEvidence hits $12B valuation, with new round led by Thrive, DST  

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says tariffs are starting to drive up product prices

Retail startup Another raises a $2.5M seed to help sell excess inventory

Indian vibe-coding startup Emergent raises $70M at $300M valuation from SoftBank, Khosla Ventures

Meta’s Oversight Board takes up permanent bans in landmark case

Everstone combines Wingify, AB Tasty for $100M+ digital experience optimization platform

Here are the 55 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025

Rogue agents and shadow AI: Why VCs are betting big on AI security

Looking ahead to 2026: What’s next for Startup Battlefield 200

Biotics AI, Battlefield 2023, gains FDA approval for its AI-powered fetal ultrasound product 

Sequoia to invest in Anthropic, breaking VC taboo on backing rivals: FT

How YC-backed Bucket Robotics survived its first CES

Moxie Marlinspike has a privacy-conscious alternative to ChatGPT

Why Silicon Valley is really talking about fleeing California (it’s not the 5%)

Who gets to inherit the stars? A space ethicist on what we’re not talking about

Trump administration wants tech companies to buy $15B of power plants they may not use

The AI healthcare gold rush is here

The AI lab revolving door spins ever faster

Taiwan to invest $250B in US semiconductor manufacturing

Iran’s internet shutdown is now one of its longest ever, as protests continue

Google’s Trends Explore page gets new Gemini capabilities 

Doctors think AI has a place in healthcare – but maybe not as a chatbot

Amazon says 97% of its devices can support Alexa+

Developers have made $550 billion on Apple’s App Store since 2008

Motional puts AI at center of robotaxi reboot as it targets 2026 for driverless service

Google co-founders may be leaving California

Instagram says there’s been ‘no breach’ despite password reset requests

Google removes AI Overviews for certain medical queries

Google announces a new protocol to facilitate commerce using AI agents

SpaceX gets FCC approval to launch 7,500 more Starlink satellites

OpenAI is reportedly asking contractors to upload real work from past jobs

Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

Google moonshot spinout SandboxAQ claims an ex-exec is attempting ‘extortion’

How the Sleepbuds maker, Ozlo, is building a platform for sleep data

Inside CES 2026’s “physical AI” takeover

Disney+ is launching short-form videos this year

Where VCs think AI startups can win, even with OpenAI in the game

Google Classroom’s new tool uses Gemini to transform lessons into podcast episodes

Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software

Threads is developing in-message games

Nvidia launches Alpamayo, open AI models that allow autonomous vehicles to ‘think like a human’

Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference

Offshore wind developers sue Trump administration for halting $25B in projects

China’s Hesai will double production as lidar sensor industry shakes out

Kodiak taps Bosch to scale its self-driving truck tech

Flutterwave buys Nigeria’s Mono in rare African fintech exit

Can a social app fix the ‘terrible devastation’ of social media?

DoorDash says it banned driver who seemingly faked a delivery using AI

Subtle releases ear buds with its noise cancelation models

Tech billionaires cashed out $16 billion in 2025 as stocks soared

California residents can use new tool to demand brokers delete their personal data

Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein credits Trump for early release from prison

India orders Musk’s X to fix Grok over “obscene” AI content

10 useful gadgets for your first apartment

Even as global crop prices fall, India’s Arya.ag is attracting investors — and staying profitable

A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative

European banks plan to cut 200,000 jobs as AI takes hold

OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens

The top 6 media/entertainment startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield

Fizz social app’s CEO on why anon works