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Rivr, a Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup known for its stair-climbing delivery robot, has been acquired by Amazon in a deal…

A French Navy officer went for a run on the deck of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier and uploaded…

Pinterest’s CEO, Bill Ready, has called for governments to ban social media for users under 16 in a new Time…

Robotics company Sunday has raised a new funding round that has valued the company at unicorn status, meaning over $1…

Last week, Netflix announced the acquisition of InterPositive, an AI company co-founded by Ben Affleck that helps filmmakers edit footage…

OpenAI co-founder Mira Murati’s two-year-old AI research lab has signed a sizable deal with semiconductor giant Nvidia. Murati’s Thinking Machines…

Prediction market Kalshi is making it easier for its users to have conversations on Meta’s social network Threads. Kalshi now…

In a recent security partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic found 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox — 14 of them classified as…

Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government on Friday over its extraction of tariffs from global businesses. The gaming…

TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption for direct messages (DMs) on its platform, according to a new report from the…

U.S. and European law enforcement have seized the database from LeakBase, which prosecutors have touted as “one of the world’s…

According to multiple reports, Apple is working on a low-cost MacBook, which would allow the company to compete with inexpensive…

Apple unveiled its latest slate of MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops on Tuesday morning, and in the case of…

Some TikTok users in the U.S. are having trouble using the app, which the company attributes to an issue with…

AI continues to dominate the venture world, per a new Crunchbase report. A record $189 billion of global venture capital…

Anthropic experienced widespread disruptions on Monday morning, with thousands of users reporting problems accessing Claude services. The outage seems to…