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The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.

The race to produce more chips is on, and Europe is in. ASML, the Dutch company that has a near-monopoly on manufacturing the machines used for chipmaking, may soon no longer be an isolated success story. Like its U.S. counterpart, the European Chips Act aims to foster the semiconductor industry in part thanks to []

Manna is launching a U.S. operations and manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will eventually employ 1,000 people.

Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.

General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with minimal real-world data.

X plans to send users direct messages when posts theyve liked, replied to, or reposted receive Community Notes, an update aimed at addressing criticism that the platforms crowdsourced fact-checking system often arrives too late to curb misinformation.

The feature can do things like apply cinematic relighting to brighten up a dark clip, swap out a plain background for something fun, or add artistic styles to videos.

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models justdonthave what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claudeare great at text, buttheyreless skilled at understanding how thingsactually movethrough space and timean essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filledbygaming data.Thatsthe bet behind General Intuition, a []

Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use.

OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.

Paradigm, the VC firm founded in 2018 to back crypto startups, raised a $1.2 billion Fund III.

The round, led by Radical Ventures, values the two-year old startup at $1 billion.

The cyberattack targeting a U.S. insurance giant is the largest known breach of driver's license numbers so far in 2026.

There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.

Vermilion Cliffs Ventures announced Wednesday the close of a $25 million Fund II.

Apple has signed a $30 billion+ multiyear deal with Broadcom to design and produce more than 15 billion U.S.-made custom wireless connectivity chips for Apple products.

The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.

Open-source models success isnt coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life-cycle.

Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.

The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.

The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe-coding platform and later built an agent-creation product.

Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including Rolling Stone and Variety.

From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026.

The company just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday.

Forterra has deployed more than 100

A new report suggests Netflix viewers arent sticking around for Season 2. The bigger issue may be that binge-watching itself is no longer the advantage it once was.

An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials meaning it wasn't quite the fully autonomous cybercrime debut that last week's headlines suggested.

SK Hynix is experiencing a boom credited to AI. It will ride that to a multibillion-dollar U.S. IPO, expected to take place on Friday.

The reality is, when you're optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance, Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch.

The update is part of Apple's broader effort to make Siri feel more natural and personal, as it rebuilds the assistant around generative AI.

A running look in reverse chronological order at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

Apple has started a phased rollout of card payments for Apple Account purchases in India after adapting to the country's payments framework.

Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday the latest in a series of layoffs thats stoking fears of AI replacing jobs.The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest.

In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam.

The hacking operations disclosed in a Canadian spy agency's annual report underscores some pressing national security threats facing the country and its top allies.

WhatsApp now lets users reserve usernames ahead of the features full rollout, making it possible to connect without sharing a phone number once usernames go live.

Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups.

Even Realities, an ex-Apple team building camera-free smart glasses, raised $150M from Meituan and Tencent at a $1B valuation.

While other humanoid startups chase sky-high valuations, Agility Robotics is betting its future on execution and a SPAC.