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Apple CEO John Ternus says the best AI device is still the iPhone

The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.

Sarah Perez 1 week ago

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Apple launches iPhone 18 Pro with upgraded camera

Apple's new iPhone 18 Pro lineup upgrades the camera and comes in burgundy.

Ivan Mehta 1 week ago

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DOJ wants more answers on Fox’s $22B Roku deal

Fox’s $22 billion plan to buy Roku has hit a new hurdle. The Justice Department sent Fox and Roku what’s known as a “second request” on Tuesday, asking the companies to turn over more data and documents as it takes a closer look at the deal. That’s a fairly standard step in a major antitrust [&#8230...

Lauren Forristal 1 week ago

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Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?

AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable than humans...

Theresa Loconsolo 1 week ago

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Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address

Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.

Sarah Perez 1 week ago

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Uber rival inDrive scales beyond ride-hailing to capture more consumer spending

inDrive's ad business, first piloted in July 2025, has served more than 2 billion impressions and attracted over 2,000 paying advertisers a month.

Jagmeet Singh 1 week ago

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‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI 

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.

Rebecca Bellan 1 week ago

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Shipt becomes the latest delivery app with an AI shopping assistant

Users can ask the assistant to do things like "Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items," or "Build a cart for easy school lunches and after-school snacks," Shipt says.

Aisha Malik 1 week ago

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Uber invests $10M in Indian fleet operator Carrum at $168M valuation

Carrum Mobility operates about 5,100 vehicles in India and is Uber's largest fleet partner for its premium Uber Black service in the country.

Jagmeet Singh 1 week ago

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AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?

Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee—AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.

Tim Fernholz 1 week ago

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Group of bipartisan lawmakers ask US government to ban several hack-for-hire firms

The three Indian companies are accused of using hackers to steal information used to sway litigation.

Zack Whittaker 1 week ago

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Autonomy pivots to gas vehicles to keep the dream of car subscriptions alive

Scott Painter, founder of TrueCar, is still trying to build a business around vehicle subscriptions, where you can cancel at any time.

Sean O'Kane 1 week ago

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Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks

Cymphony was valued at more than $100 million in a $25 million Series A co-led by Sequoia and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund.

Jagmeet Singh 1 week ago

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Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine

Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.

Aisha Malik 1 week ago

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Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time

If you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there’s a limited set of options: Wait to go to the International Space Station, or partner with a handful of start-ups launching spacecraft that spend time in orbit before they return to Earth. But the vehicle that goes to...

Tim Fernholz 1 week ago

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Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up

As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.

Ivan Mehta 1 week ago

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Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate fusion power for the grid

Fusionality is developing control systems and simulation environments to help fusion power startups move faster.

Tim De Chant 1 week ago

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CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing’s most pressing bottlenecks

UK-based manufacturing software startup CloudNC announced Wednesday a $20 million B extension round, bringing its lifetime total raised amount to $128 million.

Dominic-Madori Davis 1 week ago

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White House takes down ‘Build the Wall’ game after the Tetris Company complains

The Trump administration's short-lived arcade game "Build the Wall" is now nowhere to be found after the Tetris Company posted that it takes "copyright infringement very seriously."

Lucas Ropek 1 week ago

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Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.

Julie Bort 1 week ago

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Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market

Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.

Marina Temkin 1 week ago

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The Exploration Company nabs $450 million to challenge SpaceX

The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million to build reusable spacecraft, in what it describes as “the largest-ever Series C by a European space company.”

Anna Heim 1 week ago

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Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?

Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data.

Sarah Perez 1 week ago

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How to watch Apple’s foldable iPhone announcement

Apple's annual iPhone event will stream live on September 9 at 10 a.m. PDT, and we're expecting big news.

Amanda Silberling 1 week ago

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