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You.com, an artificial-intelligence search startup making a push into business software, is in talks with media conglomerate Cox Enterprises to raise funds valuing the company at $1.4 billion, said people familiar with the discussions.
The funding would support You.com’s push into selling AI search tools to businesses, after the company’s consumer product fell behind competitors like Perplexity. Startups are beginning to make inroads offering AI services to companies looking to automate and trim jobs in ar
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Blu-ray recorders may seem irrelevant, but a massive increase in demand for one particular recorder shows that they definitely still have their fans. Read more ›
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Scoot around in style without spending top dollar on an awesome electric scooter. Read more ›
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The Information reported that an AI agent within Meta took unauthorized action that led to an employee creating a security breach at the social company last week. According to the publication, an employee used an in-house agentic AI to analyze a query from a second employee on an internal forum. The AI agent posted a response to the second employee with advice even though the first person did not direct... Read more ›
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Perplexity today expanded its Comet browser to iOS, making its AI Comet Assistant available to iPhone users. The Comet browser for iOS has many of the same features as the Comet browser for the desktop, including a voice mode for speaking questions and a hybrid search experience, but it does lack extensions. Comet offers standard search results like you might expect from any web search, but the added Comet Assistant... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is shutting down Horizon Worlds for its virtual reality headset users, the company announced Tuesday. The VR social network will continue to operate via its mobile app, but users accessing it through the Meta Quest headset will no longer be able to create, publish or update ... Read more ›
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It’s Wednesday, March 18, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight growing investor urgency around autonomous cybersecurity, cancer immunotherapy, and AI observability for agent-based systems. As AI-native infrastructure becomes critical to sectors ... Read more ›
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"I like to say that we got thrown overboard and into the water. But, instead of tossing us a life jacket, we were thrown an anchor," the postmaster said. Read more ›
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Lenovo announced a trio of new Android tablets in China with some impressive specs. The Lenovo Y700 (Gen 5) is one of the first tablets to launch with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. This is actually the same device as the Lenovo Legion Tab, which we got to spend time with at MWC. Alongside the Y700 (Gen 5), Lenovo also unveiled its Xiaoxin Pro 13 and Pro GT... Read more ›
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Most people assume the human brain is wired for constant novelty, that we’re built to chase the next experience, the new restaurant, the unfamiliar city. The cultural machinery around us certainly reinforces it. Social media rewards people who are always somewhere new, doing something different, collecting experiences like stamps. But the neuroscience points in a ... Read more Read more ›
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Bug Films' anime take on Kamome Shirahama's beloved fantasy series, due on Crunchyroll this April, was well worth the wait. Read more ›
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With today's latest Stitch updates, Google is trying to make "vibe design" happen, reports The Verge's Jay Peters. The AI-native design platform encourages users to describe goals, feelings, or inspiration in "natural language," rather than starting with traditional blueprints. In a blog post, Google Labs Product Manager Rustin Banks says that Stitch can turn those inputs into interactive prototypes, automatically map user flows, and support real-time iteration. It introduces voice... Read more ›
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Crimson Desert provides a fantastic open-world experience, which thrives in puzzle-solving, finding surprises, and combat that rivals the best out there. Read more ›
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Crimson Desert is big. So big, it turns out, that this open world game requires not one but three loading screens. The first is a simple bar loading shaders and the like; the second whisks you away to a blocky realm with a twinkling star sitting on its horizon, a strange and tantalising lead-up for a game that bills itself primarily as a high-fantasy action romp. The third sees the... Read more ›
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We tested 20 CPUs in Crimson Desert to see how performance holds up with various gaming processors. The results are positive, showcasing Pearl Abyss’ unique BlackSpace engine that’s been in development for years. Read more ›
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AI customer service software provider Zendesk is acquiring Forethought, a nine-year-old startup that is one of its industry partners and competitors, for an undisclosed sum. The deal shows how larger firms are snapping up smaller rivals that develop AI agents that can perform multi-step tasks ... Read more ›
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Atlassian, which sells software that lets developers and other business teams collaborate on projects, is laying off around 1,600 employees, or around 10% of its staff, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes announced in a blog post. Few companies have been harder hit by investors’ fears over the ... Read more ›
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If you’re in need of a billion or two in cash, why not hit up Jensen Huang? The Nvidia CEO has plenty of money to spare, particularly if you’re in business with him in some way. Nvidia’s announcement on Wednesday that it was putting $2 billion into Nebius, a European AI data center developer, was the fourth investment in a business partner Nvidia has announced this month. Earlier this week... Read more ›
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Anthropic is in talks with a consortium of private equity firms including Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman about forming an AI-focused joint venture to sell the Claude maker’s technology to companies funded by the investment firms, according to a person involved in the discussions and another person who was briefed about it. The recent conflict between the Department of Defense and Anthropic temporarily impacted the joint venture discussions, one of... Read more ›
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Anthropic is in talks with a consortium of private equity firms including Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman about forming an AI-focused joint venture to sell the Claude maker’s technology to companies funded by the investment firms, The Information reported on Wednesday. The proposed joint ... Read more ›
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AI coding startup Cursor is in discussions with investors to raise a funding round that could value the startup at $50 billion, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The discussions are preliminary and may not result in a funding deal, the report said. Cursor last raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 ... Read more ›
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Shortly after Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss took their crypto exchange public last fall, they celebrated the company’s expansion in Australia with a swanky party at a greenhouse in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden. The Winklevoss twins appeared via video link before a DJ played for a throng of supporters. “We’re in Australia for good,” James Logan, the new head of Australia for the crypto exchange, Gemini Space Station, said on social... Read more ›
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Enthusiasm for OpenClaw, the popular open-source software for powering personal AI agents using personal computers, has been tempered by a number of embarrassing security snafus, such as when OpenClaw started mass-deleting emails from Meta alignment director Summer Yue’s inbox.In China, where developers are arguably even more enthusiastic about OpenClaw than their Western counterparts, government agencies and state-owned enterprises have warned their employees against installing OpenClaw agents on office d Read more ›
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Salesforce raised $25 billion in bonds, the company confirmed, and has struck deals with “financial institutions” to buy back that much in stock. A $25 billion buyback would shrink Salesforce’s outstanding shares by about 13%. Salesforce shares were trading up 3.4% on Thursday morning. Such ... Read more ›
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Microsoft Executive Vice President Rajesh Jha, who oversees the business unit that includes Windows, Office, and Microsoft’s Surface devices, will retire July 1, he said in a memo to staff Thursday. Jha has spent more than 35 years at Microsoft, including two decades at the helm of the company’s ... Read more ›
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