In the coming months, Meta is going to explore a premium experience on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp that gives users access to special features and more control over how they share and connect, while keeping the core experiences free. 

Many members of the international games industry are skipping the 2026 Game Developers Conference because of the growing ICE presence and other concerns.

Unwavering Trump loyalist and VC Keith Rabois caused his colleague and his firm's founder to distance themselves from his comments on ICE.

The YouTubers claim Snap, like others, used AI datasets meant for research and academic use to train its AI models.

From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.

UpScrolled is a social network that pledges to remain impartial to political agendas. It blends familiar features from Instagram and X, letting users share photos, videos, and text posts, discover new content, and send direct messages.

A company called Life Electric Vehicle Holdings has emerged as the top bidder for Rad Power's assets. It's not clear what the company plans to do with them, though.

Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger challenge: showing customers and investors how this AI-powered software layer translates to real savings on an industrial scale. 

Skylight, co-founded by CEO Tori White and CTO Reed Harmeyer, offers a built-in video editor; user profiles; support for likes, commenting, and sharing; and the ability for community curators to create custom feeds for others to follow.

Claude users will now be able to call up interactive apps inside the chatbot interface, with Cowork integration coming soon.

The 12-year-old firm raised $360,360,360 for its fifth fund. And there's a reason for that number.

The timing of these outages lines up with the long-awaited creation of a separate U.S. TikTok entity last week.

Europe-based venture fund 2150 raised the money to invest in climate tech startups that help solve cities' carbon footprint.

The London High Court awarded the London-based satirist and human rights activist Ghanem Al-Masarir more than £3 million, after finding the Saudi government hacked his phone and was likely behind a physical attack targeting him in London.

More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities. 

Maia comes equipped with over 100 billion transistors, delivering over 10 petaflops in 4-bit precision and approximately 5 petaflops of 8-bit performance — a substantial increase over its predecessor.

CoreWeave will also integrate Nvidia's products across its platform, including the new Rubin chip architecture.

The launch date had been up in the air after the rocket's booster stage suffered an explosion during testing in November.

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Apple's new AirTag is louder and supports better finding at longer distances.