Google avoids break up, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial: U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta outlined remedies on Tuesday that would bar Google from entering or maintaining exclusive deals that tie the distribution of Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or Gemini to other apps or revenue arrangements. Read More |
These 20- and 22-year-olds raised $5M from YC, General Catalyst to study online behavior using vision AI: Amogh Chaturvedi is running on little sleep but plenty of conviction at 6 a.m. He's groggy, apologetic for rescheduling, and still reeling from a recent scare involving a family member and an electric scooter. Within minutes, though, the 20-year-old Stanford dropout snaps into focus, walking me through how he and his co-founders sold one startup at 19, landed in Y Combinator, and raised $5 million for their next company, Human Behavior. Read More |
Brand new unicorn IQM sets its sights beyond Europe for its quantum computers: IQM, a Finnish quantum computing company is now a unicorn after raising over $300 million in a Series B round funding led by Ten Eleven Ventures, a U.S. investment firm focused on cybersecurity. Read More |
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| PayPal and Venmo are giving out Comet invites and free Perplexity Pro subscriptions: The arrangement is part of a new partnership between PayPal and the AI provider, which benefits both companies in different ways. Read More |
Waymo expands to Denver and Seattle with its Zeekr-made vans: Add another two cities to the growing list where Waymo is looking to deploy its robotaxis. The company will start with manual testing but is eyeing a commercial launch in both cities. Read More |
OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team: OpenAI is bringing on the founder of Statsig as its CTO of Applications, and making changes to other leadership roles at the company. Read More |
Amazon launches Lens Live, an AI-powered shopping tool for use in the real world: Lens Live will not replace Amazon's existing visual search tool, Amazon Lens, which lets you take a picture, upload an image, or scan a barcode to discover products. Instead, it brings a real-time component to Amazon Lens. Read More |
OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental controls: OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month – part of an ongoing response to recent safety incidents involving ChatGPT failing to detect mental distress. Read More |
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Advanced geothermal startups are just getting warmed up: Geothermal energy startups including Fervo Energy and Sage Geosystems are signing key deals that bring their technology closer to broader commercial deployment. Read More |
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