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WhatsApp will automatically move messages from large businesses to a new folder a few hours after you receive them.

Tesla had already reportedly prepped for the idea in the event that Beijing invades Taiwan.

Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding.

After OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents

Apple is worried enough about supply shortages that it reported about $11.1 billion in inventory, which is almost double the $5.7 billion it reported last September.

The former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has cards to play.

Reddit's financial situation is looking good but uncertainty about its relationship to Google and the new AI-ified web are stirring market concerns.

Amazon isn't slowing down on data center spending — but investors don't seem to mind.

Apple said a slowdown in mobile gaming and changes to the App Store’s business model — including court-ordered payment rule changes in the U.S. — weighed on its services business, even as the company topped 1.5 billion paid subscriptions.

A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk, casting doubt on the government's ban on its AI technology.

The health tech data giant, which handles vast amounts of patients' medical data, said hackers struck one of its protected health data stores.

Friend, the AI wearable, can now talk to its users — for an enhanced price.

As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products, thanks to the use of LLMs and AI tools.

Florida wants to use federal EV charger funds to build an air taxi network connecting golf courses, luxury apartment buildings, and airports.

LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.

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