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Viven's seed funding was led by Khosla Ventures and Foundation Capital.

Liberate’s AI agents automate tasks for P&C insurers, working across sales, service, and claims.

Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest version of its smallest model, billed as offering similar performance to Sonnet 4 "at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed."

The Chinese AV companies are already traded on the Nasdaq.

Semiconductor firm Arm is partnering with Meta to enhance the social media company's AI systems amid an unprecedented infrastructure buildout.

Nscale plans to deploy the chips over the next few years to three data centers in Europe and a fourth in the U.S.

Google now lets you recover your accounts using your phone number or trusted contacts.

Veo 3 already has edit features such as adding reference images to drive a character, providing the first and last frame to generate a clip using AI, and the ability to extend an existing video based on the last few frames. With Veo 3.1, Google is adding audio to all these features to make the clips more lively.

The company, which provides cybersecurity defenses to most of the Fortune 500, said the DOJ allowed it to delay notifying the public on national security grounds.

Video editing app VSCO is adding a set of new AI image editing tools, support for high-resolution RAW files, non-destructive edits, and content-aware region detection.

Waymo already has ties to the UK, which began after the autonomous vehicle technology company acquired Latent Logic in 2019.

Some of America's most valuable companies are now leaning on OpenAI to fulfill major contracts, notes the FT.

Coinbase's latest investment lifts CoinDCX's valuation from $2.15 billion to $2.45 billion.

Five new vehicles and a four-cylinder engine will be developed and produced through 2029 as part of investment into factories in Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana.

OpenAI says it will soon roll back some of ChatGPT's safeguards, and even allow the chatbot to engage in erotica for adult users.

SpaceX's company town has formed a volunteer fire department, extending control over both the emergency response and permitting process as the company looks to expand Starbase.

Sonic Fire Tech has developed a device that can extinguish flames using acoustic energy below the range of human hearing. The startup is building a demo capable of protecting a home.

Spotify is partnering with Netflix to bring select video podcasts to the streaming platform starting in early 2026. The deal will feature curated shows from Spotify Studios and The Ringer, expanding later to include more genres. The move reflects Spotify’s growing focus on video as a key driver for engagement and ad revenue, with video podcast consumption now growing 20 times faster than audio-only content.

Impulse Space sees a growing demand for mid-sized deliveries to the moon.

The integration offers conversational, cited answers instead of traditional links and follows positive feedback from earlier tests in select markets. Perplexity will expand to mobile soon.