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AfterQuery Becomes Y Combinator’s Fastest Reported Unic...

AI training-data startup AfterQuery reportedly reaches a $3.2 billion valuation,...

John Ternus Begins Apple CEO Role Ahead of Major Produc...

John Ternus starts as Apple CEO after Tim Cook’s 15-year tenure, promising a maj...

Polymarket Reportedly Raises $300M From Trump Jr.-Backe...

Prediction market Polymarket reportedly raises $300 million from 1789 Capital am...

Andreessen Horowitz Expands Growth Fund to $8.5B

Andreessen Horowitz expands its fifth growth fund to $8.5 billion as the firm in...

Microsoft Outlook Outage Disrupts Email Services for Us...

Microsoft confirms an Outlook outage affecting Exchange Online users with email ...

VLC Media Player Surpasses 7 Billion Downloads Worldwide

VLC media player has surpassed 7 billion downloads across platforms as VideoLAN ...

Sony Music and Warner Sue Anthropic Over Alleged Copyri...

Sony Music and Warner sue Anthropic, alleging the AI company used copyrighted wo...

Lambda Raises $1 Billion Debt to Expand Nvidia AI Chip ...

AI cloud company Lambda raises $1 billion in private debt to buy Nvidia chips fo...

Survey Finds More Americans Oppose Police License Plate...

A new YouGov survey finds more Americans oppose Flock license plate surveillance...

Apple TV Subscription Prices Rise Again With Fourth Inc...

Apple raises TV subscription prices again, increasing monthly and annual plan pr...

Andreessen Horowitz Launches $1.1 Billion Machine Age A...

Andreessen Horowitz launches a $1.1 billion Machine Age fund focused on AI hardw...

Bluesky Adds Algorithmic Opt-Out Feature to Limit Post ...

Bluesky adds an algorithmic opt-out setting that lets users prevent public posts...

Barret Zoph Joins Google After Leaving OpenAI and Think...

AI executive Barret Zoph joins Google as vice president of research after leavin...

ATF Declares Major Cyber Incident After Ransomware Gang...

ATF declares a major cyber incident after a ransomware group claims to have hack...

AI Assistant Startup Instinct Raises $350M at $2.5B Val...

AI assistant startup Instinct raised $350 million in funding at a $2.5 billion v...

Apple Sets September 9 Event for iPhone 18 Launch

Apple will hold its September 9 launch event, where it is expected to reveal new...