20-Feb-26
Hacking conference Def Con bans three people linked to Epstein [ 18-Feb-26 10:04pm ]
Is your startup's check engine light on? Google Cloud's VP explains what to do [ 18-Feb-26 9:07pm ]
A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky's app [ 18-Feb-26 8:57pm ]
SeatGeek and Spotify team up to offer concert ticket sales inside the music platform [ 18-Feb-26 7:07pm ]
Amazon halts Blue Jay robotics project after less than six months [ 18-Feb-26 6:27pm ]
Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, plans to target creators with new features [ 18-Feb-26 6:19pm ]
Data breach at fintech giant Figure affects close to a million customers [ 18-Feb-26 6:14pm ]
Google debuts $499 Pixel 10a [ 18-Feb-26 5:41pm ]
Audible's new 'Read & Listen' feature syncs your Kindle ebooks with audiobooks [ 18-Feb-26 4:20pm ]
X continues to bet on vertical video with its latest update [ 18-Feb-26 4:15pm ]
Snapchat+ tops 25M subscribers, driving company's direct revenue ARR to $1B [ 18-Feb-26 4:00pm ]
Google adds music generation capabilities to the Gemini app [ 18-Feb-26 4:00pm ]
Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers [ 18-Feb-26 3:08pm ]
This former Microsoft PM thinks she can unseat CyberArk in 18 months [ 18-Feb-26 3:00pm ]
Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers' confidential emails to Copilot AI [ 18-Feb-26 2:44pm ]
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Google's new Gemini Pro model has record benchmark scores—again [ 20-Feb-26 12:55am ]
Gemini 3.1 Pro promises a Google LLM capable of handling more complex forms of work.
Nvidia deepens early-stage push into India's AI startup ecosystem [ 20-Feb-26 12:30am ]
Nvidia is working with investors, nonprofits, and venture firms to build earlier ties with India's fast-growing AI founder ecosystem.
19-Feb-26
FBI says ATM 'jackpotting' attacks are on the rise, and netting hackers millions in stolen cash [ 19-Feb-26 10:31pm ]
The FBI says hacks that trick ATMs into spitting out cash on demand are rising, with hundreds of attacks in the past year alone netting hackers millions in stolen bills.
At a critical moment, Snap loses a top Specs exec [ 19-Feb-26 10:30pm ]
As Snap readies the public release of its long-awaited VR glasses, one of the key executives on the project has left the company.
Cellebrite cut off Serbia citing abuse of its phone unlocking tools. Why not others? [ 19-Feb-26 10:04pm ]
Cellebrite, which makes phone unlocking and hacking tools, stopped sales to countries that allegedly abused its tools. But after new allegations in Jordan and Kenya, the company has changed its approach.
Second and last chance for innovators to win scaling perks: Belden extends nomination window [ 19-Feb-26 9:45pm ]
Last day to nominate for the 2026 Joseph C. Belden Innovation Award has been extended through February 27. Don't miss your chance to win scaling perks.
Google says its AI systems helped deter Play Store malware in 2025 [ 19-Feb-26 9:27pm ]
Google said it prevented 1.75 million bad apps from going live on Google Play during 2025, a figure that's down from previous years.
An AI data center boom is fueling Redwood's energy storage business [ 19-Feb-26 9:10pm ]
Redwood Materials says its new energy storage business is the fastest growing unit within the company.
Why these startup CEOs don't think AI will replace human roles [ 19-Feb-26 8:47pm ]
The CEOs of Read AI and Lucidya told TechCrunch at Web Summit Qatar that they see AI tools replacing tasks, rather than workers.
YouTube's latest experiment brings its conversational AI tool to TVs [ 19-Feb-26 8:30pm ]
YouTube is testing conversational AI on smart TVs, allowing viewers to ask the assistant questions related to the video they're watching on the big screen.
Toyota hires seven Agility humanoid robots for Canadian factory [ 19-Feb-26 8:29pm ]
The robots will be unloading totes full of auto parts from an automated warehouse tugger.
The boys' club no one was supposed to write about [ 19-Feb-26 7:58pm ]
Reporter Zoë Bernard spent months talking to 51 people (31 of them gay men) to map out a subculture that's been an open secret in Silicon Valley for years: gay men, at the upper echelons of tech, quietly raising up their own networks the way powerful people have always done.
SpaceX's Starbase city is getting its own court [ 19-Feb-26 7:55pm ]
Elon Musk's company town already has a volunteer fire department, and is forming a Starbase Police Department. Now it wants its own court, too.
As browser wars heat up, Chrome adds new productivity features [ 19-Feb-26 6:30pm ]
Split View, PDF annotations and 'Save to Chrome' features come to the Chrome browser.
Reddit is testing a new AI search feature for shopping [ 19-Feb-26 6:22pm ]
A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, images, and direct where-to-buy links.
Meta is shutting down Messenger's standalone website [ 19-Feb-26 5:01pm ]
The move comes a few months after Meta shut down Messenger's stand-alone desktop apps for Windows and Mac.
New York hits the brakes on robotaxi expansion plan [ 19-Feb-26 4:53pm ]
The governor of New York pulled a robotaxi expansion proposal that was viewed as a win for Waymo.
Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teens [ 19-Feb-26 4:41pm ]
Meta's CEO was questioned over the addictive nature of its social media apps like Instagram, and other teen harms.
SoftBank to spend an eye-popping $33B to build huge U.S. gas power plant [ 19-Feb-26 4:27pm ]
If completed, the project would be among the largest and most expensive natural gas power plants.
OpenAI reportedly finalizing $100B deal at more than $850B valuation [ 19-Feb-26 3:35pm ]
OpenAI is reportedly getting close to closing a $100 billion deal, with backers including Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft. The deal would value the ChatGPT-maker at $850 billion.
Current is a new RSS reader that's more like a river than an inbox [ 19-Feb-26 3:33pm ]
Current introduces a stress-free, totally reimagined RSS news reading app as a one-time paid download.
Bug in student admissions website exposed children's personal information [ 19-Feb-26 3:05pm ]
Ravenna Hub, which lets parents apply and track the status of their kids' applications across thousands of schools, allowed any logged-in user to access the personally identifiable data associated with any other user, including their children.
Reload wants to give your AI agents a shared memory [ 19-Feb-26 3:00pm ]
Reload announces a $2.275 million raise in a round led by Anthemis and the launch of its first AI employee, Epic.
Rivian owners will soon be able to access vehicle controls using their Apple Watch [ 19-Feb-26 3:00pm ]
Rivian is launching a companion app that pairs with Apple Watch in the coming week.
OpenAI, Reliance partner to add AI search to JioHotstar [ 19-Feb-26 2:45pm ]
The rollout includes two-way integration that surfaces streaming links directly inside ChatGPT.
Co-founders behind Reface and Prisma join hands to improve on-device model inference with Mirai [ 19-Feb-26 2:43pm ]
Mirai raised a $10 million seed to improve how AI models run on devices like smartphones and laptops.
This former Big Tech engineers are using AI to navigate Trump's trade chaos [ 19-Feb-26 2:00pm ]
Amari AI is making custom AI-powered software that helps customs brokers modernize and minimize constantly shifting trade policies.
For open-source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing [ 19-Feb-26 2:00pm ]
AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier but maintaining them is just as hard.
Altman and Amodei share a moment of awkwardness at India's big AI summit [ 19-Feb-26 1:49pm ]
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi prompted speakers at the event to join hands and raise them in a show of unity, all executives on stage obliged, except OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, who held their hands conspicuously apart.
Freeform raises $67M Series B to scale up laser AI manufacturing [ 19-Feb-26 1:00pm ]
"I think we're the only quote-unquote manufacturing company out there that has H200 clusters in a data center on site."
This VC's best advice for building a founding team [ 19-Feb-26 12:30pm ]
One of the most consequential decisions early-stage founders have to make is who they will bring on as their founding team. The first five to 10 employees will have a massive impact on the company culture, and the precedents set with them are difficult to change down the road. That's why this season on Build […]
Reliance unveils $110B AI investment plan as India ramps up tech ambitions [ 19-Feb-26 11:39am ]
Reliance has begun building multi-gigawatt AI data centers in Jamnagar, with more than 120 MW of capacity expected to come online in 2026.
OpenAI taps Tata for 100MW AI data center capacity in India, eyes 1GW [ 19-Feb-26 5:34am ]
OpenAI also plans to expand its presence in India with new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year.
OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership [ 19-Feb-26 3:30am ]
OpenAI moves beyond ChatGPT in India with a Pine Labs deal targeting enterprise payments and AI-driven commerce.
18-Feb-26
Etsy sells secondhand clothing marketplace Depop to eBay for $1.2B [ 18-Feb-26 10:55pm ]
The deal comes nearly five years after Etsy purchased Depop for $1.62 billion, at a time when secondhand clothing apps were gaining traction during the pandemic.
The Def Con hacking conference banned hackers Pablos Holman and Vincenzo Iozzo, as well as former MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito, from attending the annual conference after their reported connections with Jeffrey Epstein.
Startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever, using AI while facing tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs, and more pressure to show real traction early. Cloud credits, access to GPUs, and foundation models have made it easier to get started, but those early infrastructure choices can have unforeseen consequences once startups move beyond […]
Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.
SeatGeek announced on Wednesday a new integration with Spotify, bringing a seamless ticket-buying experience for Spotify users. Now, when Spotify users browse an artist's page or upcoming tour dates, they will see ticket links powered by SeatGeek for concerts at these participating venues, allowing for a streamlined purchase process. Currently, the integration is available for […]
Amazon said Blue Jay's core tech will be used for other robotics projects and the employees who worked on it were moved to other projects.
Mastodon is looking to grow its open source, decentralized social network with new features aimed at creators.
The Figure data breach allowed hackers to steal customer names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.
The smartphone is available for preorder now with shipments starting March 5. It comes in Lavender, Berry, Fog, and Obsidian.
The feature will require customers to buy both versions of the title, but at a discounted price.
X's new immersive video player is designed to offer a more mobile-friendly experience, optimized especially for portrait-oriented videos.
The revenue milestone comes as Snap has added additional paid offerings outside of its core Snapchat+ subscription over the past year to diversify its revenue streams.
Users will be able to use text, images, and videos as a reference to generate music
Kana, a new AI marketing startup from the founders of Rapt and Krux, has raised $15 million to build customizable, agent-based marketing tools.
Though crowded, the identity management market seems eager for new solutions, and Venice is finding traction.
Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers' confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies.