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Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.

The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.

A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.

The three 28-year-old founders behind energy startup Furo moved from Silicon Valley and back to Germany, and yet secured $4 million in funding from mostly U.S. backers.

Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.

Proxima Fusion said Wednesday it plans to build a €140 million ($162.6 million) factory to produce fusion-grade high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tape, which will provide the startup with key component to its reactor design.

Amazon is expanding shopping integrations across Prime Video, letting viewers discover products tied to thousands of shows, movies, and live sports through X-Ray, its shopping app, and a new Lens-powered “Shop the Scene” feature.

Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.

Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.

Instagram's newest feature lets users take posts from the Tagged tab and move it to their main profile grid instead.

Google's new feature will transfer your passkeys as well.

The company said it plans to dig more than 150 kilometers of tunnels in the Middle Eastern country.

“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.

Bending Spoons is buying Miro for $1.36 billion, a huge dip in valuation for the workplace collaboration startup, which was valued at $17.5 billion in late 2021.

Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.

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This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.

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