OneTrust, a nine-year-old startup that benefited from a wave of European and U.S. laws regulating how companies collect and share website data, is exploring a sale—possibly to private equity buyers, according to people familiar with the discussions. The Atlanta-based startup, which sells privacy and compliance software, is the latest venture-backed software firm to consider a sale rather than holding out for a public offering. The company, backed by Coatue Management... Read more ›
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Blue Origin, the space company founded and owned by Jeff Bezos, took a major step forward by successfully launching its giant New Glenn rocket and landing its booster stage on a barge off the coast of Florida. It was a landmark achievement for Blue Origin in its ambitions of creating reusable ... Read more ›
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Thinking Machines Lab, the AI company cofounded by ex-OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is in talks to raise money at a roughly $50 billion valuation, according to a report from Bloomberg. The talks come just five months after the startup announced its last round at a $10 billion ... Read more ›
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Amazon has a new name for its satellite internet effort: Amazon Leo, a reference to its constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit. In a blog post, Rajeev Badyal, an Amazon Leo vice president, said that the satellite effort’s previous name, Project Kuiper, was a codename, which was inspired ... Read more ›
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Anthropic recently cut off access to its AI models for several hackers who were using the technology to carry out cyberattacks and espionage, the company said Thursday. Anthropic said the hackers, who were linked to the Chinese government, used its Claude Code tool to try to hack into 30 ... Read more ›
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Grayscale, the crypto asset manager owned by Digital Currency Group, a crypto conglomerate founded by Barry Silbert, filed publicly for an IPO, despite a slowdown in its business. Grayscale was the driving force behind getting crypto assets traded on stock exchanges. But competition from other ... Read more ›
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Something curious has happened in software: Nearly every established seller of enterprise tools started marketing the same general-purpose AI agents that aim to handle everything from drafting emails to customers to resolving IT service tickets. Even old-guard database providers like Snowflake are now in the AI applications game, going head to head with young firms like Decagon in selling agents that handle customer service or sales-related interactions with customers, for... Read more ›
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Tesla is working on supporting Apple’s CarPlay system in its vehicles, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, in what would be a significant reversal of CEO Elon Musk’s opposition to working closely with the iPhone maker. The report said Tesla has been internally testing Carplay, which lets users ... Read more ›
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As we wrote in this story on Tuesday, investors are rushing to back a new crop of research-focused AI labs (dubbed neolabs) hoping to outflank OpenAI and Anthropic. One investor, in particular, is driving most of these new startups: Nvidia.In Reflection AI’s October fundraising, for instance, Nvidia contributed $800 million out of the $2 billion round, making it by far the largest investor in the round (despite the fact that... Read more ›
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Google unveiled several new AI shopping features Thursday, as the search giant heightens competition with OpenAI and other AI companies working to incorporate more e-commerce features into their products. Google had previously announced some of the features at its I/O developer conference in ... Read more ›
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Walt Disney Co. reported flat revenue and slightly lower operating income in the September quarter, as a sharp slump at most of its TV networks offset growth in its streaming business and theme parks operation. Disney stock was trading down 8% on Thursday. Disney’s entertainment ... Read more ›
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Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings said it is “upgrading” its team that develops artificial intelligence foundation models by stepping up recruitment efforts. “We are hiring more top-notch talent especially in the research area,” to complement the team’s strength in engineering, President ... Read more ›
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Here’s a stock market fact that will surprise nearly everyone who has followed the ride-hailing industry: Lyft’s stock performance is beating Uber’s by a fair margin this year. Lyft is riding a surprising rebound, turning a money pit into a cash generator and making promising deals in ride hailing. Lyft shares are up nearly 80% in 2025, ahead of Uber’s 50% gain, a reversal of years of lagging performance by... Read more ›
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Alibaba Group is planning to overhaul the design of its artificial intelligence chatbot, as the Chinese tech giant tries to make the struggling app more competitive, Bloomberg reported. In China’s consumer AI chatbot market, Alibaba’s Tongyi app lags far behind rival apps developed by other ... Read more ›
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Next time you’re barreling down a highway and you get stuck behind someone driving at the speed limit, don’t honk or flash your lights. It might be a Waymo self-driving car! The Alphabet-owned robotaxi business announced Wednesday that its cars will now drive on freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and Phoenix, a major advance for the service. It’s a reminder that, while Elon Musk makes extravagant... Read more ›
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OpenAI is trying to turn public opinion against The New York Times in their legal battle. As part of the Times’ copyright infringement lawsuit against the ChatGPT creator, the Times has asked for access to 20 million conversations between users and ChatGPT, a request OpenAI said Wednesday was “ ... Read more ›
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Stablecoin issuer Circle’s revenue jumped 66% in the third quarter, but its shares fell 11% Wednesday, weighed down by concerns over declining interest rates and rising distribution costs to partners like Coinbase. It announced it’s exploring launching a token to incentivize the adoption of its ... Read more ›
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The 2025 initial public offering market was defined by a stark divergence: a welcome comeback year for new listings that instantly created clear winners and losers. While investors rewarded companies with an artificial intelligence or cryptocurrency narrative, stocks of consumer facing companies and software firms that couldn’t articulate an AI-driven growth story languished. . We asked Deep Research to analyze this market split, identifying the biggest underperformers among 2025’s IPOs... Read more ›
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Andy Rubin, creator of Android and a former Google executive, has launched a new startup focused on humanoid robots, said a person with direct knowledge of the venture. His venture is the latest addition to the red-hot and frothy humanoid space, crowded with companies ranging from Tesla to startups such as Figure AI. Rubin’s startup, Genki Robotics, is based in Tokyo, where he is currently living, according to the person.... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s column, Steph and Sri broke news Tuesday night about a flurry of investments VCs are making in so-called “neolabs,” or new labs hoping to exploit approaches to developing AI models and research they say major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic may have overlooked.These include companies like agent startup Isara, which is raising at a $1 billion valuation; Humans&, a startup building “human-centric AI” raising at... Read more ›
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