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All startups accepted into YC will soon have the option to receive their seed checks via stablecoins, crypto YC partner…

The Polish government said Russian government hackers broke into parts of the country’s energy grid infrastructure, taking advantage of its…

Apple, Meta, and Google are locked in a fierce battle to lead the next wave of AI, and they’ve recently…

OpenAI, a company already valued at $500 billion, has made it known that it’s on the hunt for another $100…

Three of Elon Musk’s companies — SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla — are in play for a potential merger. While the…

For the last several months, nuclear startups have been raising large sums of money — well over $1 billion so far.…

Amazon has reached a settlement valued at more than $1 billion to resolve claims that it failed to properly refund…

Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle claims its voice assistant illegally spied on users to, among other things,…

An ongoing Microsoft outage is preventing enterprise customers from accessing email inboxes, files, meetings, and other Microsoft cloud services. The…

The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular tool into a VC-backed startup,…

LiveKit, a developer of infrastructure software for real-time AI voice and video applications, has announced the raise of $100 million…

Apple’s long-awaited Siri revamp could turn the smart assistant into a chatbot more akin to ChatGPT, according to a report…

Apple may be developing its own AI wearable, according to a report published Wednesday by The Information. The device will…

As concern for AI’s impact on young people continues to mount, OpenAI has introduced an “age prediction” feature into ChatGPT…

Elon Musk’s xAI has been illegally operating dozens of natural gas turbines to power its Colossus data centers in Tennessee,…

Database provider ClickHouse secured $400 million at a $15 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, representing about a 2.5x increase from its…