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The YC-backed startup has raised a $4.5 million seed round as it looks to win over more businesses by replacing cumbersome phone trees with AI-powered software.
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The hacking group claims to have stolen about a billion records from companies, including FedEx, Qantas, and TransUnion, who store their customer and company data in Salesforce.
Former SpaceX Falcon 9 engineer Jamie Gull, who started the fund, has already made nine investments.
Lore raises $1.1 million to build a personalized search engine for fandom culture.
The app, which went viral earlier this year, allowed users to lawfully share information about where they've seen ICE agents within a 5-mile radius of their location, and also share details of the clothing agents are wearing.
As iOS 26 is rolling out to all users, developers have been updating their apps to include features powered by Apple's local AI models.
While AI coding startups like Cursor close brow-raising rounds on barely three years of existence, Replit's path to a $3 billion valuation has been anything but swift.
Investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are underway.
The Trump administration canceled over 300 awards related to clean energy on October 1. The states most affected by the cuts voted for Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
As part of the change, Anthropic is updating the structure of its core technical group, bringing the company's product-engineering team into closer contact with the infrastructure and inference teams.
Jules is already being used by developers to complete code after experimenting on vibe-coding platforms.
The idea, explains Meta, is to give users dedicated spaces within the app where they can delve deeper into conversations on topics that matter to them.
Slow or stopped permitting and a frozen visa process are existential threats for some startups.
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A former OpenAI researcher looked into how ChatGPT can mislead delusional users about their reality and its own capabilities.
AI search startup Perplexity is making its new Comet browser available to everyone in the world for free as it works to position the product against big browsers and search engines. For certain paid subscribers, the startup has also launched a new ‘background assistant’ to handle multiple tasks via Comet.
Amazon's new "Add to today's delivery" button makes it easier for Prime members to buy more and tack on items to existing orders.
The company will likely sell fewer EVs this year than in both 2024 and 2023, making next year's launch of the R2 SUV even more important.
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