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Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.

BP Ventures is shutting down, ending a nearly 20-year run that was marked by reportedly lackluster returns.

Uber has agreed to acquire Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion all-stock deal that would nearly double the company’s global footprint and create one of the world’s largest food-delivery platforms outside China.

Beehiiv is launching an AI Copilot to help publishers with user growth and analytics.

X will use Grok AI to better detect stolen content, redirect payouts to original creators, and crack down on engagement bait.

Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion.

With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.

Google said users can soon access their notebooks through AI Mode in Search.

DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal, marking another step toward software designed for AI agents instead of just humans.

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, two members of the prolific Scattered Spider hacking group, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to five years and six months in jail for hacking London’s metropolitan transit system.

One period tracker app tested by Mozilla was 'squeaky clean,' while another app was seen sharing users' health data with an analytics company, underscoring vast differences in user privacy among these apps.

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.

Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence.

The startup, founded in 2021, lets enterprise customers use smartphones to scan and spot vehicle damage.

While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.

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