Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a major OpenAI client
Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.
Oracle reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $16.06B, below $16.21B est., and raises its FY capex forecast to ~$50B, up from $35B as of September; ORCL drops 15%+
Oracle shares sank 11% in extended trading on Wednesday after the database software maker reported lower quarterly revenue …
Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist letter, accusing Google of “massive scale” copyright infringement and using AI to “exploit and distribute” the content
Disney sends cease-and-desist letter to internet giant — As Disney has gone into business with OpenAI …
Operation Bluebird, a Virginia-based startup planning to launch a “Twitter.new” social network, petitions the USPTO to cancel X's trademarks over “abandonment”
A Virginia startup calling itself “Operation Bluebird” announced this week that it has filed a formal petition …
The OpenAI deal gives Disney a fair amount of oversight and control over how its IP is used, including a joint steering committee to monitor user creations
US state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and nine others, warning that their chatbots' “delusional outputs” could be violating state laws
Microsoft, Meta, Google and Apple were among the 13 companies that received a warning from a bipartisan group …
An Ai2 research scientist says AGI may never emerge because such a concept ignores the physical realities and limits of computation, such as energy constraints
If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI. X: @scaling01 , @sriramk , @tim_dettmers , and @tim_dettmers LinkedIn: Ryan Iyengar and A...
OpenAI faces a wrongful death lawsuit from the estate of an 83-year-old woman killed by her son, who had engaged in delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT
The estate of victim Suzanne Eberson Adams is suing OpenAI for wrongful death, and her grandson is speaking out for the first time
Spotify says it will test Prompted Playlist, which lets users describe what they want to hear and receive a unique set of songs based on their listening history
Spotify announced on Wednesday that, for the first time, it's giving users more control over the streaming service's algorithm.
A look at the Model Context Protocol and how it went from a passion project from two Anthropic employees to an industry standard managed by the Linux Foundation
Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation …
Google DeepMind plans to open its first “automated science laboratory” in the UK in 2026, focused on using AI tools to develop new materials for chips and more
Big Tech group will work with Sir Keir Starmer's government to enhance AI use across public sector
Google brings Gemini to Chrome for iOS and iPadOS, after debuting on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, starting in the US in English for signed-in users
It can summarize pages, create a FAQ on a topic and modify recipes for your dietary needs. — After rolling it out on desktop …
Stanford researchers develop AI hacking bot Artemis and say it surpassed nine out of 10 penetration testers by rapidly finding bugs in the university's network
A recent Stanford experiment shows what happens when an artificial-intelligence hacking bot is unleashed on a network
Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers; TikTok says that 14 of the accounts don't violate its rules
TikTok AI — AI-generated videos showing what appear to be underage girls in sexualized clothing or positions have together racked … Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz : pitch: make some new...
Sei partners with Xiaomi to preinstall its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026
The app will enable peer-to-peer payments, access to decentralized apps, and Web3 exploration, as well as stablecoin payments in retail stores.
A Microsoft analysis of 37.5M Copilot conversations from January to September 2025 finds that health, career, and relationship topics dominated users' questions
People are increasingly turning to Microsoft's Copilot chatbot for advice about their health, careers and relationships …
AT&T launches Connected Life, a smart home security system with hardware from Google and Abode, designed to keep working during power or internet outages
Connected Life combines Nest and Abode devices with AT&T cellular backup to stay online during outages.
a16z crypto expands to Asia, opens a Seoul office, hires Monad's Sungmo Park as its Asia head, and calls South Korea the world's second-largest crypto market
What to know: … A16z crypto, a venture capital fund of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), said it is expanding into Asia …
Q&A with investor Gavin Baker of Atreides Management on the economics of AI, data centers in space, mistakes SaaS companies are making in adopting AI, and more
In this episode of Invest Like The Best, Patrick O'Shaughnessy sits down with investor Gavin Baker to explore the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
Dutch payments group Mollie agrees to acquire London-based fintech GoCardless for €1.5B, set to close in 2026; GoCardless was last valued at $2.1B in early 2022
Dutch payments group aims to create new European fintech — Dutch payments group Mollie has agreed to acquire …
Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing via Cursor's agent
The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market.
China's power grid, the world's largest, gives it an edge in the global AI contest, helping Chinese companies develop AI models more cheaply than US competitors
Push for power supremacy transforms Inner Mongolia; tech leaders worry about U.S.-China ‘electron gap’
Palantir expands its Percepta lawsuit, accusing Percepta's co-founders of poaching its workers and customers, and another employee of stealing confidential docs
Suit says Percepta's chief executive built a ‘copycat’ company after leaving Palantir last year
The US CFTC grants crypto exchange Gemini a Designated Contract Market license, allowing it to launch its prediction markets betting platform Gemini Titan
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Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify's open-source Backstage, raised a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation
Spotify may be synonymous with music streaming, but it's also got a wildly popular developer-tool side-hustle called “Backstage.”
Berlin-based LI.FI, which provides businesses with price comparisons of crypto exchange rates and bridging fees, raised $29M, taking its total funding to ~$52M
When businesses decide to engage with crypto, they quickly discover the landscape is fragmented across numerous blockchains.
The EU opens investigations into Temu and airport scanner maker Nuctech to assess whether they unfairly penetrated the EU market thanks to Beijing subsidies
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Harness, which uses AI to automate code testing, verification, security, and governance, raised a $240M Series E led by Goldman Sachs at a $5.5B valuation
AI DevOps tool Harness, founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, is on track to exceed $250 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, Bansal tells TechCrunch.
Reddit starts a limited alpha test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark next to the usernames of notable people or businesses
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Apple says ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US App Store, up from fourth in 2024, followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Instagram
but is it better? Keval Shukla / MakeUseOf : These 5 free Fire TV apps unlock features Amazon doesn't include Abhijith M B / Windows Latest : WhatsApp is logging more Windows 11 users out to push its ...
Sources: Blue Origin has worked for over a year on tech for orbital AI data centers; SpaceX plans to use upgraded Starlink satellites for AI computing payloads
And Elon Siladitya Ray / Forbes : Musk Signals Reports Of SpaceX Planning An IPO Next Year Are ‘Accurate’ Andrew Nusca / Fortune : What OpenAI's ‘code red’ will accomplish Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge New...
Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that generates images, video, and audio in real-time, raised a $50M Series A, taking its total funding to $66M
Flaviu Radulesc started Runware in 2023 when he was testing a text-to-image company and realized that, though genAI tech was powerful, it was slow in generating images.
Uber discontinues its monthly EV bonuses as it scales back key climate efforts after embracing Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, which slashed clean-energy incentives
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Sources: the US is working on a settlement that could see ZTE pay $1B+ over alleged foreign bribery from 2018 and earlier; a deal would require China's approval
Worktrace AI, founded by ex-OpenAI product lead Angela Jiang and researcher Deepak Vasisht, launches with a $9.3M seed, and releases a workflow automation agent
After helping to oversee the launch of two of the most influential AI models in recent years - OpenAI's GPT-3.5, also known as ChatGPT …
Uber launches its B2B logistics service Uber Direct in India with ONDC integration, starting in Bengaluru with grocery deliveries for Zepto and KPN Farm Fresh
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Medra, which programs robots with AI to conduct and improve biological experiments, raised $52M led by Human Capital, taking its total funding to $63M
Medra, which programs robots with artificial intelligence to conduct and improve biological experiments, has raised $52 million to build …
Fertility startup Inito, which offers an at-home health diagnostics platform, raised a $29M Series B and plans to use AI-designed antibodies to make new tests
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $6.19B, Digital Media revenue up 11% YoY to $4.62B, $7.13B in net income, and forecasts FY 2026 revenue above estimates
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters :
Memo: Google names Amin Vahdat, who leads the company's AI and infrastructure team, to chief technologist for AI infrastructure, reporting to Sundar Pichai
promote the guy behind its data center tech Kahekashan / The Hans India : Google Appoints Amin Vahdat to Lead AI Infrastructure Expansion Diya Lal / Tech in Asia : Google names new AI infrastructure c...
JD.com's JingDong Industrials, a supply chain tech and services provider, opened down 7.8% after the company raised ~$383M in its Hong Kong IPO
Amazon now offers same-day perishable grocery delivery in 2,300+ US markets and has expanded the service's grocery offerings by 30%+ since its August launch
Peyton Bigora / Grocery Dive :
US investors are boosting Chinese AI-related tech stocks and adding cash to ETFs tracking China's tech sector, as US lawmakers push for tighter capital curbs
Wall Street Journal :
Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal says the Indian edtech startup's valuation has fallen from its $3.5B peak three years ago to less than $500M, and confirms M&A talks
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including by offering to double their salaries, and reorganized its AI team
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