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Meta settles for $18 billion in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children
Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era
Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos
QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you
Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents
Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses
Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them
Ventures Platform goes bigger — and broader — with its second Africa fund
India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call
Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues
X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping
Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious
Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
SpaceX will build a second, $100B ‘Starbase’ spaceport in Louisiana
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Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat
Waymo robotaxis are headed to Munich
Life360 expands pet tracking with new $8 scannable tags and zoomie alerts