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Quick commerce FirstClub doubles valuation to $255M in nine months
Lovable signs multi-year deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says
Defense tech is flooded with money, but who’s built to last?
Uber to put 500 data-collection vehicles on the road this year
Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal
Meta mercifully spun out VR fitness game Supernatural instead of just killing it
Substack’s new ‘Reply Rules’ feature lets creators control how people respond
Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon
Ultrahuman says hackers accessed customers’ wellness data via internal tool
Carvana ties up with Bezos-backed Slate Auto as it plans new car sales
Instagram is alerting users who were targeted by hackers during AI chatbot attacks
Amazon will show AI product images when you search for some reason
Still facing copyright lawsuits, AI music generator Suno raises another $400M
These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked
GitLab cuts 14% of staff as it scales its platform to serve AI workloads
Publishers will be able to opt out of AI Search, thanks to new regulation
TikTok launches TikTok Pro Events, an app for cultural moments like the FIFA World Cup
The worst hacks and breaches of 2026 (so far)
Meet Wander, a StumbleUpon-inspired tool for discovering the ‘small web’
Meta’s AI agent for WhatsApp Business is now available globally