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Two smaller companies, Oklo and TerraPower, along with Vistra, a large energy company, just signed agreements with Meta.
Elon Musk's AI company has restricted Grok's controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool invited heated criticism from across the world for letting users generate sexualized images of women and children.
In a blog post published Friday morning, Ben Horowitz writes that "as the American leader in Venture Capital, the fate of new technology in the United States rests partly on our shoulders." It's the kind of statement certain to cause agita at rival firms.
Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA regulatory pathway to commercialize treatments for rare diseases.
Anthropic announces its first enterprise deal of 2026, which includes building agents for, and giving Claude code to, Allianz.
The Zcash protocol remains unaffected despite the governance clash and restructuring with Bootstrap.
CES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of days occupied by press conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMD and previews from Sunday’s Unveiled event.
Cyera raised another $400 million just six months after its last huge round.
For the past two weeks, X has been flooded with AI-manipulated nude images, created by the Grok AI chatbot — and governments around the world are promising to take action.
After raising $1.35M and later exiting my startup, I realized that complex tools like Notion often fail when real-life chaos hits. During a "perfect storm" of relocation, business pivots, and divorce, I ditched the dashboards for a single, infinite-scroll Google Doc. This "Anti-Notion" system uses simple color-coding and daily pruning to provide something a calendar can't: a tangible, psychological record of resilience.
Building software products has never been easier, so why are so many well-funded startups failing to take off no matter how good their product is? In this season finale episode of Build Mode, our guest has an answer: Startups have focused too much on product development and not enough on distribution excellence. Paul Irving is partner and […]
The infamous spyware maker released a new transparency report claiming to be a responsible spyware maker, without providing insight into how the company dealt with problematic customers in the past.
EverNitro is positioning itself against competitors such as NitroBrew as a long-term more affordable all-in-one solution. “We offer the quality of a commercial tap with the footprint of a coffee maker. While others sell you gas, we give you technology to harvest it for free,” founder and CEO Terry Tan said.
CES is always chock-full of robots, and this year electronics giant LG announced a new bot, dubbed CLOid, that it claims will revolutionize household chores (as in, you won't have to do them anymore).
Internet monitoring firms and experts say Iran’s internet has almost completely shut down, as protests spread through major cities.
OpenAI is acquiring the team behind executive coaching AI tool Convogo in an all-stock deal, adding to the firm's M&A spree.
Luckey, who initially made his fortune in VR and now runs the defense contractor Anduril, and Ohanian both seemed to agree: Stuff was better in the old days.
The move comes as Disney launched a personalized vertical video feed in the ESPN app last year.
From an AI panda pet to an anime girl hologram for your desk, here are the wildest products at CES 2026.
The security lapse exposed personal information belonging to residents who received state benefits.
Nvidia is now requiring its customers in China to pay upfront in full for its H200 AI chips even as approval stateside and from Beijing remains uncertain.
Snowflake is bolstering its data stack to make the platform better suited to the sheer volume of data produced by AI agents.
In the season finale of Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Paul Irving, partner and COO of GTMfund, to discuss go-to-market strategies for the AI era. Paul shares specific, actionable advice on how early-stage startups can win even when facing well-funded competitors who iterate at lightning speed. He also explains why distribution has become the final remaining moat when technical advantages disappear in months […]
The glory days of venture capital are winding down, leaving in their wake a host of overstuffed tech firms and a bear market ready to maul.
