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Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive

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Elon Musk’s X botched its security key switchover, locking users out

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Data centers now attract more investment than finding new oil supplies

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Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product

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Cluely’s Roy Lee hints that viral hype is not enough

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Kevin Rose’s simple test for AI hardware — would you want to punch someone in the face who’s wearing it?

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Alphabet is increasingly launching ‘moonshot’ projects as independent companies — here’s why

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Google’s NotebookLM adds ‘Deep Research’ tool, support for more file types

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Google’s SIMA 2 agent uses Gemini to reason and act in virtual worlds

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LinkedIn adds AI-powered search to help users find people

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Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in

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Google augments AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you

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Sam Altman-backed Exowatt wants to power AI data centers with billions of hot rocks

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Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in

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Harbinger raises $160M, will build trucks for FedEx

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Coding assistant Cursor raises $2.3bn five months after its previous round

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Should you trust Tools for Humanity’s iris-scanning orb?

As bots increasingly outnumber humans online, leading to an explosion of deepfakes and AI-driven fraud, one company has a solution straight out of sci-fi: scanning your iris to verify your humanity.

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CISA warns federal agencies to patch flawed Cisco firewalls amid ‘active exploitation’ across the US government

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Cybersecurity firm Deepwatch lays off dozens, citing move to ‘accelerate’ AI investment

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Sapphire Sport spins out, rebrands as 359 Capital with $300M AUM

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Google takes on Pinterest with a dedicated ‘inspirational’ images tab in its mobile app

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Firefighters received chemical burns at Elon Musk’s Boring Company construction site

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Harbinger raises $160M, will build trucks for FedEx

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Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix

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Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar

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