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The ban would apply to a range of social media platforms, including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X.

Salesforce says it wants to use Fin's team and technology to improve Agentforce, its existing enterprise platform that businesses can use to build custom AI agents that automate tasks.

Indian IT services company HCLTech is investing $150 million in the Bengaluru startup.

Fox says the deal will create the third-largest television company in the United States.

NewCore argues the next challenge in enterprise security will be managing AI agents, not people.

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At the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small cohort of AI insiders is becoming wealthy on a scale that's hard to comprehend.

Orbio announces $21 million Series A in round led by Dawn Capital.

JPMorgan can't be pleased by any of this.

The U.K. seems to be following Australia's lead in banning a wide swath of social media for teens.

Startups are trying to "ride that SpaceX IPO wave."

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