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• Fashion rental app By Rotation and Uber partner to help deliver ski clothing [3d]
• Anduril has invented a wild new drone flying contest where jobs are the prize [3d]
• Bluesky teases 2026 roadmap: a better Discover feed, real-time features and more [3d]
• Anthropic reportedly upped its latest raise to $20B [3d]
• Amazon agrees to pay consumers $309M in returns policy settlement [3d]
• TikTok joins Snap to settle social media addiction lawsuit [3d]
• Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs condemn ICE violence, praise Trump [3d]
• Google’s more affordable AI Plus plan rolls out to all markets, including the U.S. [3d]
• OpenAI launches Prism, a new AI workspace for scientists [3d]
• Amid Trump attacks and weaponized sanctions, Europeans look to rely less on US tech [3d]
• The price gap between Waymo and Uber is narrowing [3d]
• If you live in the UK, you probably won’t be able to visit Pornhub anymore [3d]
• TikTok says it’s still working to recover its U.S. infrastructure [3d]
• WhatsApp is rolling out a new stricter security setting to protect users from cyber attacts [3d]
• Android phones are getting more anti-theft features [3d]
• Google now lets users jump from AI Overviews into AI Mode conversations [3d]
• Indian states weigh Australia-style ban on social media for children [3d]
• Amazon is closing its physical Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores [3d]
• Risotto raises $10M seed to use AI to make ticketing systems easier to use [3d]
• Samsung’s TriFold phone will cost $2,899 in the US [3d]
• Airtable gets into the AI agent game with Superagent [3d]
• Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’ [3d]
• Pinterest layoffs impact 15% of staff as resources redirected to AI [3d]
• Pinterest to lay off 15% of staff to redirect resources to AI [3d]
• Luminar receives a larger $33 million bid for its lidar business [3d]
• China’s Moonshot releases a new open-source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent [3d]
• Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint Ventures [3d]
• Uber launches an ‘AV Labs’ division to gather driving data for robotaxi partners [3d]
• Northwood Space secures a $100M Series B and a $50M Space Force contract [4d]
• ‘Among the worst we’ve seen’: report slams xAI’s Grok over child safety failures [4d]
• South Korea’s Edenlux set for U.S. debut of eye-strain wellness device [4d]
• Qualcomm backs SpotDraft to scale on-device contract AI with valuation doubling toward $400M [4d]
• Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users [4d]
• AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation two months after launch [4d]