29-Jan-26
TechCrunch [ 29-Jan-26 12:35pm ]
Upwind raises $250M at $1.5B valuation to continue building 'runtime' cloud security [ 29-Jan-26 12:35pm ]
The $250 million Series B was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Picture Capital.
Apple hires iPhone camera app Halide's co-founder for its design team [ 29-Jan-26 12:30pm ]
Halide also released a public preview of its up coming app Halide Mark III.
Deezer makes it easier for rival platforms to take a stance against AI-generated music [ 29-Jan-26 8:00am ]
Last year, Deezer introduced an AI detection tool that automatically tags fully AI-generated music for listeners and removes it from algorithmic and editorial recommendations. The company announced on Thursday that it's now making the tool available to other streaming platforms in an effort to help address the rise of AI and fraudulent streams, as well […]
Meta burned $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won't be any better [ 29-Jan-26 12:20am ]
The reported financial losses follow a series of layoffs at the VR unit.
Zuckerberg teases agentic commerce tools and major AI rollout in 2026 [ 28-Jan-26 11:16pm ]
Mark Zuckerberg says 2026 will be "a big year for delivering personal super intelligence."
Trump energy department loosens rules on nuclear safety [ 28-Jan-26 10:50pm ]
The new rules apply to nuclear reactors built on Department of Energy property, which includes several currently being developed by startups.
Microsoft gained $7.6B from OpenAI last quarter [ 28-Jan-26 10:47pm ]
Microsoft, one of OpenAI's major investors, is benefiting greatly from the AI lab's growth.
Tesla is killing off the Model S and Model X [ 28-Jan-26 10:40pm ]
The company will stop making the pioneering EVs in the second quarter of 2026, CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday.
Mark Zuckerberg says a future without smart glasses is 'hard to imagine' [ 28-Jan-26 10:31pm ]
Take Zuckerberg's outlook with a grain of salt. After all, he thought we'd all be hanging out in the metaverse by now.
Tesla to invest $2B in Elon Musk's xAI [ 28-Jan-26 9:52pm ]
Elon Musk's AI company xAI disclosed earlier this month it had raised $20 billion.
Elon Musk teases a new image-labeling system for X… we think? [ 28-Jan-26 9:46pm ]
Elon Musk says X will begin identifying "manipulated media" but doesn't share details.
SpaceX is coming to the public markets, and secondaries are already on fire [ 28-Jan-26 9:35pm ]
paceX is reportedly lining up four major Wall Street banks for a 2026 IPO that could provide the reset the market needs. The company just completed a tender offer at an $800 billion valuation, and secondary market demand is through the roof. If SpaceX goes public anywhere near its rumored $1.5 trillion valuation, it could trigger an IPO cascade for other late-stage unicorns like OpenAI, Stripe, and Databricks. Watch as Equity host Rebecca Bellan […]
AI security startup Outtake raises $40M from Iconiq, Satya Nadella, Bill Ackman, and other big names [ 28-Jan-26 9:18pm ]
Outtake makes an agentic cybersecurity platform to help enterprises detect identity fraud. Its angel investors read like a who's who of tech industry names.
Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 [ 28-Jan-26 9:16pm ]
The company's sales fell for a second year in a row, as Tesla looks to AI and robotics, including a new $2 billion investment in CEO Elon Musk's company xAI.
ServiceNow inks another AI partnership, this time with Anthropic [ 28-Jan-26 9:13pm ]
ServiceNow partners with Anthropic just a week after announcing a partnership with OpenAI as the company takes a multi-model approach.
