Bluesky teases 2026 roadmap: a better Discover feed, real-time features and more
Bluesky is teasing new features and improvements ranging from the Discover feed to video support.
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Anthropic reportedly upped its latest raise to $20B
Anthropic looks to raise $20 billion at more than $300 billion valuation, according to reports.
Amazon agrees to pay consumers $309M in returns policy settlement
The lawsuit, filed in 2023, alleged that Amazon caused "substantial unjustified monetary losses” for consumers who returned an item but were still charged for it.
TikTok joins Snap to settle social media addiction lawsuit
Jury selection begins Tuesday as this case moves closer to trial.
Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs condemn ICE violence, praise Trump
Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with one addressing concerns publicly and the other in an internal message.
Google’s more affordable AI Plus plan rolls out to all markets, including the U.S.
Gemini 3 Pro and other AI tools are now available globally through the Google AI Plus plan, which is $7.99 per month in the United States.
OpenAI launches Prism, a new AI workspace for scientists
OpenAI has launched a new scientific workspace program called Prism, which integrates AI into existing standards for composing research papers.
Amid Trump attacks and weaponized sanctions, Europeans look to rely less on US tech
European governments are looking to move away from U.S. tech and reclaim their digital sovereignty at a time of unpredictability and volatility in the United States.
The price gap between Waymo and Uber is narrowing
A trip in a Waymo robotaxi still costs more, on average, than a comparable ride in a human-driven Uber or a Lyft. But that gap is narrowing, according to new data published Tuesday by Obi, a company that aggregates real-time pricing and pickup times across multiple ride-hailing services.
XFuel Raises $20M for Low-Carbon Marine Fuel
SOSV and HAX portfolio company XFuel, a next-generation low-carbon fuel developer, was recently featured in Axios following the announcement of its $20M Series A and $9M blended-finance grant from the European Innovation Council. The funding will accelerate XFuel’s first commercial project producing ultra-low-carbon marine fuel.The round brings in major strategic partners, including Japan’s NYK Line and Stolt Ventures, the VC arm of Stolt-Nielsen, two global leaders in shipping and logistics. Th
If you live in the UK, you probably won’t be able to visit Pornhub anymore
Pornhub parent company Aylo will restrict access from U.K. users, rather than comply with age-verification mandates, which the company said it believes have not succeeded in promoting online safety.
Contextual AI launches Agent Composer to turn enterprise RAG into production-ready AI agents
In the race to bring artificial intelligence into the enterprise, a small but well-funded startup is making a bold claim: The problem holding back AI adoption in complex industries has never been the models themselves.Contextual AI, a two-and-a-half-year-old company backed by investors including Bezos Expeditions and Bain Capital Ventures, on Monday unveiled Agent Composer, a platform designed to help engineers in aerospace, semiconductor manufacturing, and other technically demanding fields bui
How Moonshot's Kimi K2.5 helps AI builders spin up agent swarms easier than ever
Chinese company Moonshot AI upgraded its open-sourced Kimi K2 model, transforming it into a coding and vision model with an architecture that supports an agent swarm orchestration. The new model, Moonshot Kimi K2.5, is a good option for enterprises that want agents that can automatically pass off actions instead of having a framework be a central decision-maker.The company characterized Kimi K2.5 as an “all-in-one model” that supports both visual and text inputs, letting users leverage the model
A European AI challenger goes after GitHub Copilot: Mistral launches Vibe 2.0
Mistral AI, the French artificial intelligence company that has positioned itself as Europe's leading challenger to American AI giants, announced on Tuesday the general availability of Mistral Vibe 2.0, a significant upgrade to its terminal-based coding agent that’s the startup's most aggressive push yet into the competitive AI-assisted software development market.The release is a pivotal moment for the Paris-based company, which is transitioning its developer tools from a free testing
Theorem wants to stop AI-written bugs before they ship — and just raised $6M to do it
As artificial intelligence reshapes software development, a small startup is betting that the industry's next big bottleneck won't be writing code — it will be trusting it.Theorem, a San Francisco-based company that emerged from Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch, announced Tuesday it has raised $6 million in seed funding to build automated tools that verify the correctness of AI-generated software. Khosla Ventures led the round, with participation from Y Combinator, e14, SAIF, Halc
Early Results from the TNW Council Concierge Revealed
Shortly after launch, TNW Council is already seeing clear, early signals from its concierge model, signals that underline a fundamental truth often overlooked in the startup ecosystem: founders operating at €1 to 10 million and leaders scaling companies between €10 to 100 million are solving entirely different problems. From the first concierge-led conversations, a consistent pattern emerged. Founders in the €1 to 10M range are primarily seeking: practical growth strategies clarity on positionin
Elon Musk at WEF: SpaceX and Tesla to produce 100 GW each of PV per year in the U.S. this decade
Elon Musk targets 100 GW of annual solar manufacturing for both Tesla and SpaceX within three years to solve the energy bottleneck threatening the AI revolution.
Vinod Khosla calls Elon Musk racist, urges Tesla and SpaceX employees to quit
Billionaire investor Vinod Khosla has lashed out at Elon Musk on X, calling the Tesla and SpaceX founder racist adding that ...
‘Voetsek!’: Malema tells Elon Musk after ‘Kill The Boer’ criticism
EFF leader Julius Malema has issued a strong-worded response to Elon Musk, who criticised the performance of 'Kill The Boer' ...
My latest Tesla FSD test revealed a glaring problem with Elon Musk's camera-only approach
My front camera had problems with condensation, especially in direct, low sunlight. Tesla cleaned it, but this could be a challenge for full autonomy.