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Security flaws in Freedom Chat app exposed users’ phone numbers and PINs
Messaging app Freedom Chat has fixed a pair of security flaws: one that allowed a security researcher to…
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Opera wants you to pay $20 a month to use its AI-powered browser Neon
Following a couple of months’ testing, Norway-based browser company Opera has finally made its AI-powered browser, Neon, available…
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Port raises $100M at $800M valuation to take on Spotify’s Backstage
Spotify may be synonymous with music streaming, but it’s also got a wildly popular developer-tool side-hustle called “Backstage.” …
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Runware raises $50M Series A to help make image, video generation easier for developers
Flaviu Radulesc started Runware in 2023 when he was testing a text-to-image company and realized that, though genAI tech…
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AI startup Tavus founder says users talk to its AI Santa ‘for hours’ per day
A new helper has arrived at the North Pole in recent years: AI. Tavus, the AI startup that…
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Oboe raises $16 million from a16z for its AI-powered course-generation platform
Oboe, a learning startup from Anchor co-founders and former Spotify execs Nir Zicherman and Michael Mignano, said today…
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Google launches managed MCP servers that let AI agents simply plug into its tools
AI agents are being sold as the solution for planning trips, answering business questions, and solving problems of…
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Amazon now offers same-day delivery of perishable groceries in 2,300 US cities
Amazon announced on Wednesday that customers in over 2,300 cities and towns in the U.S. can now get…
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YouTube TV to launch genre-based subscription plans in 2026
YouTube TV is launching more than 10 genre-specific channel packages in early 2026, the Google-owned company announced on…
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Baby delivered in Waymo continues proud tradition of not making it to the hospital
A pregnant woman in San Francisco gave birth inside a Waymo robotaxi Monday night en route to UCSF…