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AI voice startup Vapi hits $500M valuation after winning Amazon Ring over 40 rivals

Amazon launches 30-minute delivery across the U.S.

Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks

Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO

T-Mobile says telco hackers had ‘no access’ to customer call and text message logs

The phone giant said hackers did not access the contents or logs of customer phone calls or text messages, during...

DIY and synth-curious? Try putting together the analog POM-400 from Teenage Engineering

The Pocket Operator Modular 400 from Teenage Engineering is an analog modular synthesizer that you put together yourself. If you’re...

Investigators think a Chinese ship purposefully cut critical data cables

European investigators believe that a Chinese commercial ship purposefully dragged its anchor in order to slash through two critical data...

Scaling startups is top priority as EU reboots its top team

Europe must get much better at scaling startups. That’s the prognosis of the European Union’s president, Ursula von der Leyen,...

TikTok will restrict some beauty filters for people under 18

TikTok is now the go-to social network for more than a billion users, bringing it to the attention of 14...

This Week in AI: AI gets creative in the kitchen

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Google Gemini’s Imagen 3 lets players design their own chess pieces

Google Labs, the experimental arm of the tech giant, has introduced a new online project that offers an entertaining variation...

Crabs feel pain, scientists find – prompting calls for more humane ways to cook shellfish

Crabs can feel pain, according to a new study - prompting calls for more humane ways to kill shellfish.

Marc Andreessen, Joe Lonsdale, and all the other VCs reportedly in the running for DOGE and other Trump committees

With Elon Musk playing such a high-profile role in Donald Trump’s transition team, Musk’s buddies, many of them Silicon Valley...

OpenAI moves to trademark its o1 ‘reasoning’ models