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Encord, whose software helps companies developing AI models manage training data for robots and other uses, raised $60M at a $500M pre-money valuation (www.theinformation.com)
26 days ago AI Robot

Driverless truck startup Einride raised a $113M PIPE at a $1.35B pre-money valuation, down from $1.8B initially attached to its upcoming SPAC deal (techcrunch.com)
26 days ago Startup

A Greek court sentences four people, including spyware maker Intellexa's founder, to prison, for using spyware to target journalists, politicians, and others (www.politico.eu)
26 days ago Greece

New York Sues Valve For Enabling 'Illegal Gambling' With Loot Boxes (yro.slashdot.org)
26 days ago New York

Google says Nano Banana 2 can create images with a resolution ranging from 512px to 4K, and will become the default image generation model in the Gemini app (techcrunch.com)
26 days ago Google

Sources: PayPal isn't in talks to sell itself, to Stripe or anyone, and has been preparing for months for a potential activist campaign or unwanted takeover bid (www.semafor.com)
26 days ago

Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with advanced world knowledge and precision text rendering and translation, across its products (blog.google)
26 days ago Google

Burger King Will Use AI To Check If Employees Say 'Please' and 'Thank You' (slashdot.org)
26 days ago AI

Nvidia stock is down 4%+, as investor concerns around the AI infrastructure boom dampen enthusiasm about the chipmaker's better-than-expected earnings (www.cnbc.com)
26 days ago AI Nvidia

Rowspace, which builds AI tools for PE firms and hedge funds to organize unstructured data for decision-making, launches with $50M in seed and Series A funding (fortune.com)
26 days ago AI

HBO Max's Password-Sharing Crackdown Will Expand Globally in 2026 (entertainment.slashdot.org)
26 days ago

OpenAI says it will make London its largest research hub outside of the US, without giving specific details; OpenAI's European headquarters are in Dublin (www.reuters.com)
26 days ago Europe London

Total on-chain ransomware payments fell 8% YoY to $820M in 2025, despite a record 50% rise in claimed victims; the median payment grew 368% YoY to nearly $60K (www.chainalysis.com)
26 days ago

Burger King launches Patty, an OpenAI-powered voice chatbot in headsets that offers coaching, meal prep help, and evaluates interactions for “friendliness” (www.theverge.com)
26 days ago chatbot

EBay Is Laying Off About 800 Workers, 6% of Global Workforce (slashdot.org)
26 days ago eBay

Revel, founded by ex-SpaceX Starship software lead Scott Morton to replace legacy systems that test complex hardware like rockets, raised $150M led by Index (www.nytimes.com)
26 days ago SpaceX

eBay says it plans to cut ~800 jobs, or ~6% of its full-time employees, after laying off ~500 people in early 2023 and ~1,000 staff in early 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago eBay

Software stocks in the State Street ETF lost $1.6T in combined market cap in 2026 due to AI fears; Microsoft, AppLovin, Intuit, and Salesforce each lost $50B+ (www.wsj.com)
26 days ago Microsoft ETF AI Salesforce

Montreal-based Stay22, which helps publishers and creators earn money from online sales, raised $122M from Summit Partners and reports $1B+ in 2025 transactions (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago

Bermuda-based crypto trading platform STS Digital, which caters to institutional investors, raised $30M led by CMT Digital, with Kraken and others participating (fortune.com)
26 days ago

Americans Are Leaving the US in Record Numbers (news.slashdot.org)
26 days ago U.S.

Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia (www.theverge.com)
26 days ago Australia Instagram Canada

UK online supermarket Ocado plans to cut ~1,000 jobs and restructure its automated warehouse tech business; Kroger and Sobeys exited their Ocado deals early (www.ft.com)
26 days ago

AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning “programming is becoming unrecognizable” (x.com)
26 days ago AI programming

An analysis of 1,000+ YouTube Shorts videos recommended to kids: the algorithm pushes bizarre, often nonsensical, AI-generated videos, and many lack disclosures (www.nytimes.com)
26 days ago AI YouTube Algorithm

Mistral and Accenture sign a multi-year deal to let Accenture deploy Mistral's models for its clients; Mistral has deals with IBM, Cisco, SAP, ASML, and others (www.wsj.com)
26 days ago IBM Cisco

Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new “retirement interview” process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter (www.anthropic.com)
26 days ago Interview

As China grapples with a shrinking population and low birthrate, some women are finding romance with AI chatbots, leading Beijing to increase AI regulations (www.nytimes.com)
26 days ago China AI chatbot

Citadel rebuts Citrini's viral article, arguing that AI deployment is constrained by the marginal cost of compute vs. human labor, and needs far more compute (www.citadelsecurities.com)
26 days ago AI

Nvidia discloses $3.5B in guarantees to companies leasing land, power, and data center facilities, up 4x on Q3; the move may help firms without credit ratings (www.theinformation.com)
26 days ago Nvidia

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