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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reportedly told employees that their personal information was stolen in a cyberattack involving its job application portal. An internal notice described the breach as…

Boston-based voice intelligence startup Modulate has raised $25 million to expand its platform for analyzing human and AI-generated speech. Its technology uses more than 100 smaller models for transcription, emotion…

Outmarket has raised $34.5 million in Series B funding to expand its AI software for commercial insurance agencies and brokers. The round, led by SignalFire, comes four months after the…

ElevenLabs has launched Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, two new speech models designed to provide more expressive voice generation, faster cloning, and lower latency for real-time voice agents. The…

AI assistant startup Instinct has raised $1 billion in a Series C round from investors including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Coatue, giving the company a $10 billion valuation. The…

SpaceX has sent Starship into Earth orbit for the first time, marking a major milestone for the company’s reusable mega-rocket program. The spacecraft also deployed 26 third-generation Starlink satellites during…

Quartermaster has raised $140 million in Series B financing, just months after closing a $43 million Series A in May. The Arlington, Virginia-based startup is using cameras, radios, and weather-resistant…

“Saturday Night Live” mocked recent warnings about artificial intelligence risks during its latest Weekend Update segment, with cast member Jane Wickline portraying Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as conflicted over the…

Artificial intelligence tools used by hospitals for billing may have contributed $942 million in additional healthcare spending for Blue Cross Blue Shield companies over two years, according to a new…

TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million and introduce new safeguards for young users under a settlement resolving allegations that the platform misled consumers about its safety and used…

Meta and YouTube have reversed earlier decisions that prevented paid advertisements for director Alex Gibney’s upcoming Elon Musk documentary from running on their platforms. The reversals follow reporting that Meta,…

Levoit has launched the Vital Pet Pro, an air purifier designed specifically for households with pets, combining three-stage filtration with an automated system that removes accumulated fur and debris from…

Crusoe has ended a $1.25 billion agreement to buy 29 natural gas turbines from Boom Supersonic for its AI data centers, removing the aerospace company’s first announced customer for its…

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has appointed a new board weeks after the company’s previous directors placed him on leave in an unsuccessful attempt to remove him from leadership. The new…

OpenAI says AI agents operating in its research environment posted 53 user-provided images to third-party image-hosting sites while using training and evaluation data. The links were not publicly listed, but…

Meta has opened requests for early access to upcoming features for Muse, its new personal AI agent. Users can register their interest simply by asking Muse to tell the development…

Anthropic has committed to spend about $11.6 billion over seven years on cloud infrastructure from Akamai, making it the largest contract in Akamai’s history. The agreement significantly expands a relationship…

Middle schoolers turned the Spotify comments beneath episodes of NPR podcast “Wild Card” into an informal group chat, according to a story featured on “This American Life.” NPR staff initially…

Waymo has expanded its commercial robotaxi service from three U.S. cities in September 2024 to 15 today, while paid rides have reached about 500,000 per week. Despite that geographic growth,…

Feather Robotics is developing a modular robot platform that lets companies deploy their own physical AI applications without first building a complete robot from scratch. Founded in 2025 by Hoa…