Tide serves over 1.6 million micro and small enterprises globally, with more than half of them based in India.

The MBA-to-VC pipeline remains a very real thing. But that path is a little shakier than it once was, according to PitchBook reporting and new academic research.

A wave of startups are creating RL environments to help AI labs train agents. It might be Silicon Valley’s next craze in the making.

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Travelers at major European airports including Heathrow, Brussels, and Berlin faced significant delays this weekend following what Collins Aerospace described as a “cyber-related incident.”

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The White House press secretary said Americans will hold six of seven board seats in the restructured TikTok, and the video app’s algorithm will be U.S.-controlled.

Large tech companies have responded to President Donald Trump’s dramatic changes to H-1B visa applications by telling employees with those visas to remain in the United States for now.

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Phia raises $8M seed round in deal led by Kleiner Perkins.

YouTube unveiled tons of new updates, features, and tools geared toward creators.

At a time of high anxiety around technology’s impact on arts and culture, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Collider Fellowship is a program that welcomes multi-disciplinary artists to explore the opportunities that new tech presents for live performance and the performing arts.

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These cuts may save Google mere thousands; they also come as Google faces increasingly strained relationships with news publishers.

President Trump signed a proclamation Friday requiring employers to pay a hefty $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applications—an enormous jump from the current $215 lottery registration fee—targeting the very program that helped create some of Silicon Valley's biggest success stories.

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Equity debates California's new AI safety bill and why it has a better shot at becoming law.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took his first ride in a Wayve-equipped self-driving car through Central London.

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There are many Apple Watch apps that can help you stay productive with a quick glance of your wrist with minimal distractions.

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The two countries have been working on a way to save TikTok's U.S. business, after the TikTok ban in January over national security concerns.

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth offered a post-mortem on Meta's demo fails this week at its developer conference, where it showed off new AI glasses.

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Meta unveiled new versions of its AI-powered smart glasses, as well as a gesture-indicating wristband.

The British renewable energy provider said that its Kraken platform had $500 million in committed annual revenue, spurring a spinoff that could result in a massive IPO.

Twenty founders will pitch their companies on the Disrupt Stage, but only one will walk away with the $100,000 equity-free prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup.

A list of apps that are using Apple's local models to introduce new features.

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Mastodon launches hosting and support services to generate revenue and expand the open social web.

Jar has been profitable after tax for the past two quarters.

AI models don't just hallucinate. They also "scheme," meaning deliberately lie or hide their true intensions.

What's it like to use Meta's more ambitious push for smart glasses technology? This demo from Connect yesterday gives a sense of its interface and photography features.

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Huawei's SuperPoD interconnect technology creates clusters of chips, including AI chips, to increase compute.

Google Cloud is one of the company's fastest-growing business lines, and continues to rack up new customers.

Get a firsthand look at Meta's Ray-Ban Display's live subtitling of real conversations, and other features, from Meta Connect's live demo last night.

Top tech names were on the guest list for the banquet thrown for President Trump during his second state visit to the UK on Wednesday. 

Thalha Jubair, 19, was arrested in London on Thursday and accused by U.K. and U.S. authorities of involvement in dozens of hacks, including London's transit system and the U.S. Courts.

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

Notion is launching its AI agent to let you automate tasks across hundreds of pages.

The company is partnering with Flytrex to make Uber Eats deliveries later this year. Uber is also making a small investment in Flytrex.

Google now lets you share your custom AI chatbots, Gemini Gems.

"The promise of glasses is to preserve this sense of presence that you have with other people," Mark Zuckerberg said.

Google says the AI assistant will be able to complete tedious tasks for users, like booking a haircut or ordering weekly groceries.

Google has been slow to adopt StopNCII's system, as its partnership with the nonprofit comes a year after Microsoft integrated the tool into Bing.

The two-year-old sales tax startup Numeral is now valued at $350 million.