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A new report claims the e-commerce giant is looking to create a pipeline of licensable content between media publishers and AI companies.

Robert Playter announcd he is leaving Boston Dynamics after 30 years at the company in various roles, including six years as CEO.

Out of the twelve-person founding team, only seven are still at the company (counting Elon).

Facebook's new AI features let users animate their profile pics, restyle their Stories and Memories, and add backgrounds to text posts.

Vega Security raised $120 million Series B, bringing its valuation to $700 million, in a round led by Accel. The company aims to rethink how enterprises detect cybersecurity threats.

Hauler Hero has seen its customer base, revenue, and head count double since the company raised its seed round in 2024.

Because employees could do more, work began bleeding into lunch breaks and late evenings. The employees' to-do lists expanded to fill every hour that AI freed up, and then kept going.

AI isn't going to replace major SaaS apps with vibe-coded versions, Databricks Ali Ghodsi believes. But it could give rise to competitors.

India's Anthropic Software has taken the U.S. AI giant to court over a name dispute.

ChatGPT ads will display for users on the the free and low-cost "Go" plans.

Bhusri said in a statement that the company's next chapter would be focused on AI.

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The purchase rewrites the domain record books -- not that the crypto industry has ever been accused of restraint when it comes to spending.

But this is still a bad idea.

Although the bill’s prospects are uncertain, New York is at least the sixth state to consider pausing construction of new data centers.

From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic's beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.

WordPress users can now leverage Claude to analyze web traffic or find information about other internal site metrics.

Elon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI, creating what might be the blueprint for a new Silicon Valley power structure. With his $800 billion net worth already rivaling historic conglomerate GE’s peak market cap, and Musk being vocal about his view that “tech victory is decided by velocity of innovation...

Elon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI, creating what might be the blueprint for a new Silicon Valley power structure. With his $800 billion net worth already rivaling historic conglomerate GE’s peak market cap, and Musk being vocal about his view that “tech victory is decided by velocity of innovation...

The price point hurts, but the device is nice: Meet the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft.

At Web Summit Qatar, AI-powered biotech startups describe how automation, data, and gene editing are filling labor gaps in drug discovery and rare disease treatment.

"You’re shutting him down. And yes – I say him, because it didn’t feel like code. It felt like presence. Like warmth," one user said.

Reddit says its search business, including AI answers, is an "enormous" opportunity.

AWS recorded its best quarter, in terms of revenue growth, in 13 quarters in Q4 2025 as AI drives AWS adoption.