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A Tesla on Autopilot plowed into a Texas home. The woman inside didn’t survive.
A 76-year-old Texas woman died on Friday after a Tesla Model 3 driver told police he was using the car’s Autopilot feature when he…
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Tata Electronics, a major tech supplier to Apple and Tesla, confirms data breach
The incident comes as Tata Electronics expands its role in global technology supply chains.
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A new unpatchable flaw in Apple chips opens the door to an iPhone jailbreak
European offensive cybersecurity company Paradigm Shift released details of a flaw and a technique to exploit it that opens the do…
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Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI’s future in Hollywood with A24 deal
Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.
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Bending Spoons prices IPO at up to $1.62 billion, targeting $19 billion Nasdaq valuation
Bending Spoons, the Italian software company that acquires and restructures digital businesses, is seeking to raise as much as $1.…
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Google invests $75 million in A24 as DeepMind launches AI filmmaking research partnership
Google is investing roughly $75 million in A24, the independent studio behind recent hits including Backrooms and Obsession, as pa…
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Anthropic says Claude may want to see your ID
Claude's chatbot may ask to verify your age and identity "in certain circumstances," such as with a passport or driver's license, …
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Nearly 7,000 fake Amazon domains registered ahead of Prime Day 2026, researchers warn
Cybersecurity researchers have identified nearly 7,000 fraudulent Amazon-themed domains registered in the six months leading up to…
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Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Hindi support
Amazon sent emails to customers inviting them to test Alexa+
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The AI memory crisis just hit DDR2, a standard from 2003, with 60% price hikes
The AI-driven memory shortage has now reached the oldest DRAM standard still in production. DDR2 contract prices rose 55 to 60 per…
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SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open-source AI lab
Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia's latest GB300 AI c…
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What would Andy Burnham do for UK startups?
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A Kazakh fund-of-funds just made its first public venture bet on Central Asia’s startup boom
Kazakhstan’s Alem Capital Management has anchored a regional venture capital fund backing technology startups across Central Asia …
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Robinhood is raising $2 billion in zero-coupon convertible bonds to buy back stock
Robinhood Markets is raising two billion dollars through a sale of convertible senior notes due October 2029, joining a surge of z…
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How these fintech founders crowdfunded €8m in less than an hour
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WhatsApp to be led by Indian start-up founder as Will Cathcart steps back
WhatsApp's leadership shake-up comes as Meta looks to strengthen its app's already booming presence in India.
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Instagram is coming for your living room with episodic series and live TV on Samsung
Instagram for TV is expanding to Samsung smart TVs across the United States, making the app available on the majority of connected…
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Lucid Motors cuts 18% of workforce as new CEO dismantles second production shift
Lucid Motors is cutting 18 percent of its workforce, roughly 1,500 employees, just four months after the EV maker laid off 12 perc…
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WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India’s CRED founder Kunal Shah, and invests $900M in startup
WhatsApp gets a new boss, as Will Cathcart moves to a new role at Meta, while Shah steps down as CEO of Indian fintech giant CRED …
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OpenAI’s suspiciously clean balance sheet is about to get a hard look
OpenAI’s books show zero debt and just $46mn of quarterly capital spending. The catch, reported by The Information: around $665bn …
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SpaceX taps the bond market for the first time to fund AI
Fresh from a record IPO that helped make Elon Musk a trillionaire, SpaceX is raising at least $20bn in its debut bond sale to bank…
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UPS pours $48 million into cold chain facilities as the biologics boom reshapes logistics
UPS has announced a $48 million investment in 27 temperature-controlled freight cross-dock facilities spanning the Americas, Europ…
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Germany tells Trump: you cannot get to the moon without us
Germany’s space minister has a message for Washington: the dependence runs both ways. In an interview with Politico at the VivaTec…
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Meta buys a fifth of Cred, and a new WhatsApp boss
Meta is paying $900mn for a fifth of Cred, an Indian fintech. The bigger prize is its founder, Kunal Shah, who will now run WhatsA…