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SpaceX doubles revenues on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth
SpaceX has doubled its revenue compared to last year, largely due to the growth of its Starlink satellite internet…
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Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers
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Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
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Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta
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Meet Wrinkles, an AI app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you
A new app called Wrinkles uses your location to automatically surface stories about the places around you. Wrinkles,…
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Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), an industry group spearheaded by Nvidia that has already grown to over…
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TV Time co-founder launches Bingers to revive the beloved TV tracking app
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Hackers steal over $130 million by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets
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Spotify adds Merlin to its AI music remix and covers effort
During its second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, Spotify again teased the upcoming release of a new product that…
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Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits
Tech companies and developers have been scouring the U.S. for places to build data centers, and they’ve been drawn to…
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Walmart completes its acquisition of TV advertising company Vibe.co
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Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls
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Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
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Spotify now has over 300M subscribers
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India moves to give its instant payments network a business model
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Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out
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EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers
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Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B
In Brief Posted: 4:30 AM PDT · August 4, 2026 Image Credits:Airtable / Ivan Mehta Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for…
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After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises. The…
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Snap CEO sidesteps Specs pre-order questions on Q2 earnings call
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AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big
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Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated
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DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models
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Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip
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Apple challenges UK government’s latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report
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Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?
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Outernet turns your saved posts into real-world adventures
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Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics
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Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries
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Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT
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Wispr Flow is preparing to launch a meeting notetaker, updated terms suggest
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Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate
Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 has raised a $250 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation, more than tripling its…
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Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users’ internet connections with strangers
Several popular Samsung smart TV apps contain code that share the owner’s internet connection with strangers,…
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A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem
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The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air
The global memory chip shortage is affecting the availability of Apple's MacBook Air, with retailers saying supply is…
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Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate
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Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School
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These App Store hidden gems prove there’s still room for great software in the AI era
The App Store is still thriving with new and innovative apps, with a 60% year-over-year increase in new app releases…
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Uber is building an autonomous vehicle empire, and here’s every company it’s using to do it
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Apps that help you break free from doomscrolling and get active
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OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok
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Rivian spinoff Also to start delivering e-bikes after months of delays
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