Truecaller clashes with India’s telecom regulator over anti-spam rules

The caller ID company says users are increasingly ignoring and blocking calls from India's dedicated business number series.

Despite ‘misgivings,’ judge approves Elon Musk’s $1.5 million SEC settlement

The saga of Musk's tussle with the SEC over how he disclosed his growing stake in Twitter (now called X) has come to an end.

Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B

The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.

Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said emergency scenes are not "edge cases."

Google’s deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic

Earlier this week, a picture that seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extreme distress. It turned o...

With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing

Like its U.S. counterpart, the European Chips Act aims to foster the semiconductor industry — in part thanks to state subsidies. One of the beneficiaries is Qua...

Autonomous drone delivery startup Manna plots major US expansion

Manna is launching a U.S. operations and manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will eventually employ 1,000 people.

SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’

Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.

‘Slow-cial’ app Roost forces you to slow down to the speed of a carrier pigeon

This developer didn't expect his side project to grow to 300,000 users, but people love Roost because it's an alternative to an always-on, fast-paced online cul...

This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment

General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with...

Elon Musk says X will send DMs when posts you’ve engaged with are corrected

X plans to send users direct messages when posts they’ve liked, replied to, or reposted receive Community Notes, an update aimed at addressing criticism that th...

Google Photos adds a new AI ‘Video Remix’ tool

The feature can do things like apply cinematic relighting to brighten up a dark clip, swap out a plain background for something fun, or add artistic styles to v...

Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great ...

Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise.

Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how mu...

OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations

OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.

Crypto VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2B to invest in ‘technical frontier’ startups

Paradigm, the VC firm founded in 2018 to back crypto startups, raised a $1.2 billion Fund III.

Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents

The round, led by Radical Ventures, values the two-year old startup at $1 billion.

Another massive data breach exposed millions of driver’s license numbers

The cyberattack targeting a U.S. insurance giant is the largest known breach of driver's license numbers so far in 2026.

These AI startups are growing revenue at faster and faster rates

There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.

Solo GP Ashley Smith announces second $25M fund to back startups in AI, security and more

Vermilion Cliffs Ventures announced Wednesday the close of a $25 million Fund II.

Apple to produce Made in America wireless chips with Broadcom

Apple has signed a $30 billion+ multiyear deal with Broadcom to design and produce more than 15 billion U.S.-made custom wireless connectivity chips for Apple p...

Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new kind of rocket engine

Build a new kind of rocket engine, and the world will beat a path to your door.

Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation

Blue Origin is raising $10 billion at a $130 billion pre-money valuation from Coatue Asset Management, Bezos himself and other big-name investors, the New York ...

Venus Williams-backed WeWard can now lock your apps until you hit your steps

With funding from tennis star and angel investor Venus Williams, the French app WeWard says that it increases walking time by almost 25%.

Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space

Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.

Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips

ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.

AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round

AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11B valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.

Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20

If you're building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.

Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator

The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.

Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet

Open-source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life-cycle.