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Update July 16, 2026 (3:00 am PT): OnePlus said that the company won’t launch new products in Europe and North…

Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint bid to acquire PayPal in a deal valued…

Amid rising consumer electronics prices and slow demand for new purchases, Android phone maker OnePlus plans to wind down its…

Neko Health, the body-scanning and health assessment startup founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek (pictured above, right) and his co-founder Hjalmar…

On Tuesday, Microsoft patched a historic record number of security bugs across its product lines, in large part due to…

Reflection AI, a U.S. startup vying to develop open models, has signed a $1 billion compute deal with European AI…

The Iranian government abused well-known vulnerabilities in the global telecoms infrastructure to locate U.S. military personnel in the build-up to…

X has made a “tweak” to its algorithm to boost the visibility of posts to users’ “mutuals” — the people…

As Netflix searches for new ways to keep viewers engaged amid signs of slowing engagement, the streaming giant appears to…

Gradium, a Paris-based startup that offers voice AI models, reopened its seed round to new investors, including Nvidia, and has…

AI training startup Mercor is reportedly in talks to raise a round at a $20 billion valuation, sources tell Bloomberg.…

There’s something almost too perfect about this one, via Bloomberg. Lyzr, a three-year-old, Jersey City, New Jersey, startup that helps…

Block has agreed to pay $45 million to settle claims brought by 46 U.S. states alleging that its peer-to-peer payments…

Crypto VC firm Paradigm has raised $1.2 billion — its third venture fund and fourth overall — with the aim…

Lovable, a Swedish vibe-coding startup, is in talks to raise $300 million at a valuation of $13.2 billion — exactly…

Google’s SynthID system has been used to debunk a high-profile AI-generated hoax image, in a rare but significant win for…