- Google Chrome silences those pesky notificationsThe company tacitly admits that browser notifications, as designed, might have been a bad idea, saying that its own data shows users receive a high volume of notifications but rarely interact with them.
- The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boomHere's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.
- Prezent raises $30 million to acquire AI services firms — starting with founder’s other companyMonths after raising $20 million, enterprise-focused AI presentation startup Prezent is raising $30 million for acquisitions.
- Best iPad apps for unleashing and exploring your creativityWe’ve compiled a list of some of the best iPad apps for creativity that are available on the App Store.
- Homeland Security reassigns ‘hundreds’ of CISA cyber staffers to support Trump’s deportation crackdownNews of the reassignments comes at a time when the U.S. is facing a wave of hacks targeting private industry and the federal government.
- iPhone 17 Pro Max review: Orange you glad the battery is biggerApple’s iPhone 17 Pro lineup adds a sturdier unibody design, bigger battery, and camera upgrades, trading thinness for power, endurance, and creator appeal.
- Instagram head Adam Mosseri pushes back on MrBeast’s AI fears but admits society will have to adjustInstagram chief Adam Mosseri says AI will empower new creators while forcing society to rethink what’s real online as synthetic content grows.
- Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investorsNSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.
- Musk’s Boring Co. violated environmental regulations nearly 800 times, Nevada allegesThe Boring Co. violated state environmental regulations nearly 800 times, many of which occurred after signing an agreement saying it would comply.
- You can now connect your Spotify account to ChatGPT: Here’s how to do itYou can now connect your Spotify account in ChatGPT and it will perform tasks for you, such as creating personalized playlists.
- Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to advise Microsoft and AnthropicFormer Conservative PM Rishi Sunak served from 2022 to 2024. Britain's Acoba flagged concerns of granting "unfair access" to Anthropic and Microsoft.
- Investors are betting $21 billion that the energy transition isn’t going awayPolitical shifts might have set back the energy transition, but large investors are betting that renewables are at the future of energy.
- UK slaps Google Search with special market status, making way for stricter regulationsThe CMA has designated Google as having "strategic market status" in the search and search advertising markets, which means the company has such "a substantial and entrenched" position that it requires special regulations to ensure fair competition.
- The world is just not quite ready for humanoids yetDespite the amount of money being injected into the industry, humanoids won't be able to learn dexterity -- or the fine motor movements with hands -- rendering them essentially useless.
- Shutdown silver lining? Your IPO review comes after investors buy inWith 90% of SEC staff furloughed, the agency announced on Thursday that it won't penalize companies for omitting pricing details during the shutdown.
- Flipkart’s Super.money quietly partners with troubled Juspay as it expands its reachSuper.money, the fintech arm of Flipkart, is looking to raise a round of funding at a $1 billion valuation, after securing $50 million from Flipkart to date.
- While OpenAI races to build AI data centers, Nadella reminds us that Microsoft already has themMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella offered a glimpse of the "first of many" massive Nvidia AI systems it is rolling out, starting now.
- Andreessen Horowitz denies report of India office, calls it ‘fake news’a16z’s Anish Acharya calls India office reports “entirely fake news!”
- Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeekReflection, once focused on autonomous coding agents, has raised $2B at an $8B valuation to expand into both an opensource alternative to closed frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and a Western equivalent to Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek.
- Discord data breach affects at least 70,000 usersThe platform said in a press release that hackers breached a third-party vendor that Discord uses for age-related appeals.
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