AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status, raises $60M

Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion.

Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.

Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Google said users can soon access their notebooks through AI Mode in Search.

Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line

DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the termi...

UK cops say arrest of two young hackers disrupted the operations of an infamous hacking group

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, two members of the prolific Scattered Spider hacking group, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to five years and six months in ja...

Period tracker Stardust shares users’ health data with analytics firm, says Mozilla research

One period tracker app tested by Mozilla was 'squeaky clean,' while another app was seen sharing users' health data with an analytics company, underscoring vast...

Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.

How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of Cha...

Sheryl Sandberg leads $10 million investment in AI-powered vehicle inspection service

The startup, founded in 2021, lets enterprise customers use smartphones to scan and spot vehicle damage.

Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’

While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.

Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8

The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.

Ultrahuman’s former hardware VP raises $5.5M for devices that control AI agents, not just record you

Aina is going to pilot a new device in coming weeks

Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot

The updates come as Meta and other tech companies are facing scrutiny from regulators and parents around how AI chatbots respond to users in crisis, particularl...

Lululemon backs nylon recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A

Syntetica, a French startup that has developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, has already obtained big-name partners and investors.

Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant

Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.

Why Greylock capped its new fund at $1.5B when it says it could have raised more

By keeping the number of investments to about 25 per fund, Greylock aims to remain what it calls "the most important partner" to its founders.

Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic

Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.

Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms

The safety board confirmed Tesla's account of the crash, which the company shared days after it happened last month.

Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M

Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person's health.

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with ...

Microsoft patches bug in video game Age of Empires II

The vulnerability in the decades-old game could have allowed hackers to take over victims’ computers with a malicious game invite.

Apple quietly reveals how its Maps ads will differ from Google’s

Apple has published the policies governing its upcoming Maps advertising business, revealing a strategy that differs from Google’s. The new rules prohibit home ...

SpaceX slips below its $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch

The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after Space...

Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling

It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.

Phone maker OnePlus reportedly plans to wind down US and Europe operations

OnePlus could also wind down its operations in India by 2027

Google’s biggest clean power project is 40 miles north of xAI’s unpermitted gas power plant

Google's biggest solar and battery project stands in sharp contrast with xAI's nearby unpermitted power plant.

Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data

The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.

Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations

Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will b...

Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI

Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's product line, thanks to...

Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for around $53.4B

Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint bid to acquire PayPal in a deal valued at approximately $53.4 billion.  Re...