Fashion startup Atoire raises $9.5M to bring consumers luxury goods without the markup

Fashion startup Atoire announced Thursday a $9.5 million seed round.

Hoomanely’s building a smart feeding bowl and an AI platform to help owners spot when their pup is sick

Hoomanely has developed a smart bowl to measure and record dogs' feeding data, then tells owners if behaviors change.

Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more

The updates indicate that Google is looking position to AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to a...

This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground’

The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer base and help reduce red tape for utility and construction work.

Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck

Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.

Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in the town

You read that right. There is a new social network called “Twitter.now” on the block, and it’s being operated by a startup called Operation Bluebird, whose foun...

Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale

Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other sudden movements made by the autonomous vehic...

Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others

The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software.

AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory...

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.

Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents

Plaud's new 'agentic' earbuds are priced at $249.

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India

OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.

Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire...

Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.

Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chi...

Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age verification tech that doesn’t work well

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?

Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?

OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach

The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.

Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web

Flipboard is acquiring Bluesky feed-building startup Graze, bringing its privacy-friendly ad technology and creator monetization tools into Flipboard’s growing ...

Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a ‘global disruption’ to its operations

The company won't say if medical devices are affected or if any customer data was exfiltrated.

US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to hack NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate

The FBI has seized domains associated with a botnet that allowed Chinese-backed hackers to breach several U.S. government departments.

Capital F closes $17M debut fund with goal to back the future of the ‘female economy’

Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund. The firm backs companies building in the “female...

Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9

The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It'll also be the first Apple event with John Ternus ...

Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids’ access to its apps as part of settlement with states

One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be disabled with parental permission.

What’s driving Sweden’s startup boom, from Lovable to Legora

Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in eight months. But Lovable isn’t the only Stockh...

Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents

Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessibl...

Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor

Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.

Ring introduces a new encryption standard, makes it the default for cloud features

Ring says users can still opt for end-to-end encryption.