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Caller ID app Truecaller hits 500 million monthly users

Alexa+ gets new food ordering experiences with Uber Eats and Grubhub

What we’re looking for in Startup Battlefield 2026 and how to put your best application forward

Bluesky’s new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance

Why OpenAI really shut down Sora

YouTube CEO says the best YouTubers will ‘never leave their home’

‘Project Hail Mary’ becomes Amazon MGM’s biggest box office hit

SXSW rebounds as a top networking, ideas festival for founders and VCs

Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI chatbots for personal advice

Why SoftBank’s new $40B loan points to a 2026 OpenAI IPO

Waymo’s skyrocketing ridership in one chart

European Commission confirms cyberattack after hackers claim data breach 

OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPT’s erotic mode

Defense startup Shield AI lands $12.7B valuation, up 140%, after US Air Force deal

Melania Trump wants a robot to homeschool your child

Riding the GLP-1 boom, VITL lands $7.5M to overhaul cash-pay clinic prescribing

Meta is cutting several hundred jobs

Talat’s AI meeting notes stay on your machine, not in the cloud

BKR Capital raises $14.5M (so far) to invest in Black founders

DoorDash introduces relief payments for drivers as the Iran-US war drives up gas prices

Federal immigration agents filmed making airport arrests as Trump calls in ICE to ease security line delays

Do you want to build a robot snowman?

Cursor admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Kimi

An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple 

Are AI tokens the new signing bonus or just a cost of doing business?

It’s been 20 years since the first tweet

Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns

What happened at Nvidia GTC: NemoClaw, Robot Olaf, and a $1 trillion bet

Pinterest CEO calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16

Why scientists can’t get a laugh

Polymarket continues its partnership spree with a Major League Baseball deal

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition

Geothermal startup Fervo catapults itself over the ‘valley of death’

Nvidia is quietly building a multibillion-dollar behemoth to rival its chips business

Patreon CEO calls AI companies’ fair use argument ‘bogus,’ says creators should be paid

Why Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate

Kagi brings its ‘small web’ of a human-only internet to mobile devices

The Pentagon is developing alternatives to Anthropic, report says

Nvidia’s DLSS 5 uses generative AI to boost photorealism in video games, with ambitions beyond gaming

Another deep tech chip startup becomes a unicorn: Frore hits $1.64B

Fuse raises $25M to disrupt aging loan origination systems used by U.S. credit unions

The dictionary sues OpenAI

The billionaires made a promise — now some want out

Netflix’s ‘Frankenstein’ wins three Oscars, ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ wins two

Google, Accel India accelerator choses 5 startups and none are ‘AI wrappers’

ByteDance reportedly pauses global launch of its Seedance 2.0 video generator

Wiz investor unpacks Google’s $32B acquisition

Rivian’s RJ Scaringe thinks we’re doing robots all wrong

US Army announces contract with Anduril worth up to $20B

Facebook makes it easier for creators to report impersonators

Steven Spielberg says he’s ‘never used AI’ in any of his films

Travis Kalanick launches a new company called Atoms focused on robotics

Why Rivian is holding the $45,000 base model R2 until ‘late 2027’

Tinder tries to lure people back to online dating with IRL events, virtual speed dating

Poppi founder on TikTok, Super Bowl ads, and her return to Shark Tank

AI-powered apps can make money, but struggle with long-term retention, new data shows

ChatGPT can now create interactive visuals to help you understand math and science concepts

It looks like the DOJ isn’t going to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster

OpenAI acquires Promptfoo to secure its AI agents

Flipkart moves its headquarters back to India ahead of IPO

Ring’s Jamie Siminoff has been trying to calm privacy fears since the Super Bowl, but his answers may not help

Palmer Luckey’s retro gaming startup ModRetro reportedly seeks funding at $1B valuation

Will the Pentagon’s Anthropic controversy scare startups away from defense work?

Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package

Grammarly’s ‘expert review’ is just missing the actual experts

OpenAI robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal

PopSockets founder David Barnett talks about building a viral business

Anthropic’s Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks

India PC shipments surpass pandemic peak as first-time users upgrade

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Pro and Thinking versions

Google’s Gemini rolls out Canvas in AI Mode to all US users

Decagon completes first tender offer at $4.5B valuation

Claude Code rolls out a voice mode capability

Android users can now share tracker tag info with airlines to help locate lost luggage

The new MacBook Pro laptops are up to $400 more expensive than their predecessors, thanks to the RAM shortage

A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses

Instagram tracked growing usage while targeting teens, lawyers argue

Paramount+ and HBO Max to merge into one streaming service after WBD deal closes

Parade’s Cami Tellez announces new creator economy marketing platform, $4M in funding

Anthropic’s Claude reports widespread outage

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