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A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout.
Welcome back to Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
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At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.
An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?
Kalshi claims the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.”
The lawsuit will likely renew debates about whether term employment agreements are enforceable under California. law
Elon Musk's tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round.
OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.
The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
The automaker joins a long line of companies seeking such refunds. In April, Rivian CFO Claire McDonough said she expected the company stood to reap a refund in the "tens of millions of dollars."
The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines.
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.
Anduril is said to be raising a new round of funding that may push its valuation up to about $100 billion, per.
Money has evolved into far more than the cash in your wallet or your bank account. And at Disrupt 2026, we’re devoting an entire stage to that progression.
AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company.
Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia — and we're partnering with Stripe to find the country's most exciting early-stage startups.
We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.
Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.
The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.
The offline messaging app surged in popularity in India amid protests in New Delhi.
Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.
The contract between the two companies ends in May 2028, Uber told.
The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.
Watch as this episode of Equity digs into why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street, OpenAI's rogue-model breach at Hugging Face, and what's next for EVs and battery startups.
Sam Altman's side project — which seeks to scan the world's eyeballs and turn them into unique digital identifiers — has raised some fresh cash through a crypto sale.
Facebook is launching a separate app for people who list and sell items on the platform frequently. Dubbed "Seller," the app lets sellers manage their listings, message buyers, and track the performance of items.
On this episode of Equity, we dig into why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street, OpenAI's rogue-model breach at Hugging Face, and what's next for EVs and battery startups.
The number of paid robotaxi miles traveled fell 36% in the second quarter, despite expanding to new cities, according to Tesla's own figures.
Imagi announced a $4.5 million seed round, with investors including Brighteye Ventures, Day One Capital, and artist Will.i.am.
AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldn’t catch.
In a memo to staff that was posted online, Conte said the company's core business is strong, but the platform has to respond to market changes and adjust its cost structure to remain stable.
Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
In the AI-funding frenzy, many startups are raising back-to-back rounds at ever-increasing valuations — but even by those standards, Corgi stands out.
The new rule-making process follows a series of incidents, including fatal ones, in which people have become stuck inside cars.
Meta has made significant investments in natural gas over the past year. Now it's dropping out of an industry renewable energy group.
Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.
The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.
Volunteer at Disrupt 2026 and get a behind-the-scenes look at how one of the world's biggest startup conferences gets built.
ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.
Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.
a16z Speedrun, Ada Ventures, and Snowball VC have invested in Cascade's $3.5 million seed round.
As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among U.S. companies, the arguing over what should be done about them has reached a fever pitch.
We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.
Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.
Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics to help companies measure training effectiveness.
Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May. Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy tells Equity it's the kind of growth curve he's never seen in 25 years of investing.
Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.
Light co-founder Kaiwei Tang helped create the Motorola Razr, and he's as surprised as anyone that over 20 years later, the flip phone is relevant again.
Maritime nuclear energy startup Bluecore Energy has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Slauson & Co.
The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.
The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.
AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
For the first time since 2024, StrictlyVC is coming back to New York City — and we're bringing the kind of access you’d expect from an under-wraps event to the whole startup, VC, and dealmaking community.
Adobe's Project Indigo can now remove all kinds of backgrounds from photos you snap using the app
YouTube has updated its monetization policies to more clearly define the kinds of AI-generated and low-quality videos that can’t earn ad revenue.
Flock Safety sits right at the center of the debate over where the line should be drawn between privacy and public safety. That’s why we’re bringing Flock’s founder and CEO Garrett Langley to the stage to speak about those very issues.
AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
Edinburgh-based tech firm Craneware said customer data was stolen during a cyberattack. The company makes software that thousands of U.S. hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics rely on for billing patients, potentially exposing health data.
Hugging Face is urging users to rotate any access tokens stored on the platform and review account activity.
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"Everybody knows the Greeks are inside."
Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan's entire tech ecosystem.
Current AI, a nonprofit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat, and more.
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast a shadow over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.
Welcome back to Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by Ben Affleck.
A recent road trip in an EV revealed just how much faster and more reliable DC Fast charging has become in the U.S.
Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."
Th Honda Prologue will no longer be sold in the U.S., joining a growing list of EV models to exit the market this year.
Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.
The Department of Justice says that federal employees can now download TikTok on their government devices.
This isn’t the first time power outages have caused issues for Waymo.
The window is almost shut. On August 19, eight startups will take the stage at Stripe Tour Sydney in front of investors, global press, and the Australian
Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open-weight AI models for coding.
The potential deal highlights a growing trend of complex, multi-stage funding rounds that mask true entry prices.
It’s not just you: AI startups are taking in a huge amount of seed funding, and in the process making things harder for anyone looking for funding even at
In letters sent to Apple and Google, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that both companies have long been aware that they are hosting apps in violation of state law.
If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?
The recall comes as the top automotive safety regulator in the U.S. has warned AV companies about their vehicles interfering with first responders.
Some Amazon customers logged on Friday to a surprise bill estimate claiming that they owed the tech and cloud giant billions in fees.
From AI workflows to battery life and security, here's what it's really like to live with Vertu's luxury foldable every day.
Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.
India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.
Watch as Equity digs into what the lawsuit could mean for OpenAI's hardware ambitions and IPO timeline, plus a bigger theme running through the week's news: how much should anyone trust AI companies with their data?
Prosecutors accused 21-year-old student Zyaire Wilkins of publishing on Steam several fake video games that contained malware, infecting thousands of victims, and stealing crypto from some of them.
As parents look for alternatives to unrestricted smartphones, a growing number of companies are building phones designed specifically for kids, from feature-limited mobile devices to minimalist home phones.
Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relying on websites using robots.txt alone to actively block unauthorized AI training.
Remarkable's Paper Pure replaces Remarkable 2, and it is quite good.
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.
The startup, founded in 2021, lets enterprise customers use smartphones to scan and spot vehicle damage.
While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.
Aina is going to pilot a new device in the coming weeks.
Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.
Coca Cola said dairy production at its Fairlife unit will "remain suspended" in the United States following a hack.
Ryan Beiermeister, who demonstrated cool analysis in the Founders Fund YouTube series "Mafia," has joined the firm as a partner.
Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion.
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.
Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.
Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.
In the wake of a massive hours-long gridlock event, San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie has told state regulators it's time to put more requirements on robotaxi operators like Waymo.
The company didn't immediately say what went wrong. SpaceX's stock plunged more than 4% in after-hours trading before paring losses.
Syntetica, a French startup that has developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, has already obtained big-name partners and investors.
Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person's health.
Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and discovery features as it expands into new product categories.
Watch as Equity catches up with Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel, co-founders of Fractional AI, the applied AI services startup that Ode with Anthropic acquired earlier this year to serve as the new venture’s core.
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 its agentic coding app.
Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
The app is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional video editing tools too complex or time-consuming.
The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.
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The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and become a physical manifestation of OpenAI’s ChatGPT."
Anthropic has consistently attempted to depict itself as the ethical foil to other AI companies. This latest marketing stunt — which leans into criticism of AI as a way to make Anthropic seem aware of the responsibility it carries — would appear to be more of the same.
General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund doesn't make equity investments. It's providing $1 billion for IM8, known for its longevity vitamin drink.
If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to its AI-powered assistant and other new features before the software’s official launch this fall.
A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.
"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said onstage.
The company said the "rumors are completely false" after its stock sank more than 50% on a report that it was weighing the option.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their release.
Overtone describes itself as "a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, that provides highly curated introductions."
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary permissions.
DeepSeek, the Chinese large language model developer, is said to be preparing for a 2027 IPO debut as it also looks to raise around $1.5 billion in new funds at a $71 billion valuation.
The Iranian government exploited well-known flaws in cellphone networks to locate and then strike U.S. military personnel in the build-up and beginning of the war.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov confirmed an outage in a tweet, saying that shortlinks to the messaging app had "stopped working."
Now, when users navigate to Google Images, they'll see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and browsing history.
Spotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to discover music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
Superhuman’s latest AI email drafting feature is its most convincing yet, generating replies that often required little to no editing in our testing.
Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius' compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology.
Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks through the company's financial services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating expenses, predicting that engineers could soon face limits on how much they spend using AI tools.
New York has become the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data centers, as Gov. Kathy Hochul argues the AI-driven building boom shouldn’t come at the expense of higher electricity costs, water supplies, or local control.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models?
They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a lot more.
With the cash, the company aims to expand its world model offering and reach customers across geographies.
The RingConn 3 actually looks like real jewelry, not a wearable -- but its fitness tracking and headache detection features are disappointing.
The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.
Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, "homeboy you're the one sellling public market investors on short-term space datacenters."
Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses.
This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market's appetite for the company's "fly, fail, fix" approach to rocket development, which often ends in fireballs.
Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.
Apple would not comment on the "security breach," which allegedly allowed a former employee to download sensitive files from Apple's network long after he departed the company for rival OpenAI.
The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.
Washington, D.C. has become a battleground for Uber and Waymo's competing views.
The states allege that the deal would harm movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and audiences.
What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?
The creator of TV Time is building a successor app that will let users import their watch histories and preserve the community that formed around discussing their favorite shows.
Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the tech giant's broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete with rival services such as Apple Maps.
When we last sat down with Jobs at Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and biotech was still reeling from its post-pandemic crash. Now, the venture outfit has a team of 17; a cluster of blockbuster drugs are all losing patent protection in roughly the same window, creating all kinds of new opportunities; and AI has gone from a curiosity to, in Jobs' words, a huge part of what Yosemite does. "I didn't expect Yosemite to be moving this fast," he said.
Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend Sophia Kianni is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg investigation.
Independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported in May that a security researcher with cyber firm GitGuardian alerted him to reams of exposed passwords stored in a publicly accessible GitHub repository, which an employee of a CISA contractor had uploaded.
Fizz has expanded its lawsuit against rival Sidechat, alleging that a Maveron VC shared its confidential information obtained during a fundraising meeting with the competing startup.
"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer available."
Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue tells Equity why companies are ditching frontier APIs for open source AI and the risks of letting a few labs control it all.
The massive round was co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures.
Watch as Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue joins Equity to talk open source vs closed source, and why he's worried about the possibility that a handful of big companies could end up controlling everything.
In this week’s episode of Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen talks with Precursor Ventures' Charles Hudson about the headwinds facing early-stage founders today and the most common mistakes founders should avoid in order to get funded.
A new $20 billion valuation would be a giant step up from the $10 billion valuation it reached in October.
The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, "strengthening its position at the heart of the world's leading AI ecosystem."
Nilekani remains Fundamentum's anchor investor as the firm expands its leadership team and targets AI and fintech startups in India.
Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can.
Muse Image allows users to generate AI images using photos from public Instagram accounts. As long as a person's profile is public, another user can tag that account and use their images as part of an AI-generated creation.
Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.
Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.
Three big AI IPOs are set to generate more value than all the U.S. VC-backed exits since 2000.
Claude’s new Reflect dashboard doesn’t just visualize how you use AI. It also subtly reinforces how much of your daily work now depends on Anthropic’s chatbot.
In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.
State attorneys general said they found that Block misled users by falsely advertising that Cash App provided bank-like protections, including advanced fraud detection.
In its bid to spend less on GPUs from providers like Nvidia, Meta is on track to start making its the latest versions of its AI-specific chips in September.
The caller ID company says users are increasingly ignoring and blocking calls from India's dedicated business number series.
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Vermilion Cliffs Ventures announced Wednesday the close of a $25 million Fund II.
For Paradigm, the technical frontier will stretch beyond its cryptocurrency investment roots. This fund is expected to expand its investment focus to include robotics and AI.
The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.
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 QuantumDiamonds, a German startup that applies a novel approach to inspecting chips.
Watch as General Intuition CEO Pim de Witt joins 's Equity podcast to explain how the startup's $320M round and gaming data are powering the next wave of physical AI and robotics.
Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs.
There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.
Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.
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 has raised at an $11 billion valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
General Intuition CEO Pim de Witt joins 's Equity podcast to explain how the startup's $320M round and gaming data are powering the next leap in embodied AI and robotics.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said emergency scenes are not "edge cases."
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 much personal data its AI products collect and use.
Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.
The saga of Musk's tussle with the SEC over how he disclosed his growing stake in Twitter (now X) has come to an end.
The cyberattack targeting a U.S. insurance giant is the largest known breach of driver's license numbers so far in 2026.
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 culture.
Manna is launching a U.S. operations and manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will eventually employ 1,000 people.
Earlier this week, a picture seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extreme distress. It turned out to be an AI-generated fake.
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 minimal real-world data.
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 the platform’s crowdsourced fact-checking system often arrives too late to curb misinformation.
OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.
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 videos.
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 products.
Build a new kind of rocket engine and the world will beat a path to your door.
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 Times reported.
With funding from tennis star and angel investor Venus Williams, the French app WeWard says that it increases walking time by almost 25%.
Chemistry Ventures, the VC firm launched by Bessemer, Index Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz alums, is raising $500M for its second fund.
AI law startup Norm has raised a $120 million Series C round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the startup at $1.2 billion.
Bidbus, which lets dealerships bid on used cars, has raised $15 million in a Series A round that was led by early-stage mobility fund Ibex Investors.
The company just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday.
The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe-coding platform and later built an agent-creation product.
From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026.
The U.S. Army has fixed two of its websites that were hacked to display messages calling President Trump a "pedophile" and a "thief."
If you're building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.
The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising and decorating, and creator-based opportunities.
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.
Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups.
Even Realities, an ex-Apple team building camera-free smart glasses, raised $150 million from Meituan and Tencent at a $1 billion valuation.
In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam.
Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” to improve its AI models.
An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials — meaning it wasn't quite the fully autonomous cybercrime debut that last week's headlines suggested.
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month.
Back in February, Uber announced ambitious plans to launch in seven new European markets in 2026 — but now five of those launches are reportedly on hold.
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
The right desk gadgets can help you reduce clutter, stay focused, and add a little extra convenience to your day.
Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.
Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”
The Chevy Silverado EV is a solid first draft of an EV pickup truck. Here's what could make it better.
Selby's VC firm, Copper Sky Capital, is currently raising a $300 million second fund, according to a regulatory filing.
Early-stage firm Magnify Ventures has raised a $46.6 million Fund II from LPs, including Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures.
IQM, a full-stack quantum company out of Finland, went public on the Nasdaq today at a valuation of about $1.9 billion.
Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office and Google Apps with AI.
The company has grown rapidly by acquiring and revamping last-generation tech brands like AOL, Eventbrite, Evernote, Meetup, and Vimeo.
It feels like 2016 all over again. Watch as Humble Robotics founder and CEO joins Equity to talk about AV déjà vu and what he's learned from 15 years of building startups across electrification, solar, and robotics
Humble Robotics founder and CEO Eyal Cohen joins Equity to talk about AV déjà vu and what he's learned from 15 years of building startups across electrification, solar, and robotics
What if one pitch changed everything? The next company nobody has heard of yet is building something that will matter. It could be yours.
EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.
A new video shows the final production version of the upcoming Clicks Communicator, a BlackBerry-like smartphone that runs modern apps.
Acti is betting the smartphone keyboard is the next home for AI assistants. The startup's new keyboard for iOS and Android works across apps and lets users create custom AI-powered shortcuts using natural language.
Stealthy startup Arcturus uses lasers to infuse carbon nanomaterials into copper, dramatically improving its ability to conduct electricity.
From October 10-16, host a Side Event and command the room during the week of Disrupt 2026.
VCs remain thirsty to fund AI coding startups. This one, founded by investor Chamath Palihapitiya, is no exception.
The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.
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has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside its S-1 registration document.
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A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024 and 2025.
Here's a ChatGPT guide to help understand Open AI's viral text-generating system. We outline the most recent updates and answer your FAQs.