Whatnot buys Shaped as live shopping pushes harder into AI
The livestream marketplace is adding Shaped’s AI team and recommendation tech as it grows beyond collectibles into more shopping c...
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OnePlus reportedly plans retreat from US and Europe
Bloomberg reported that Oppo is preparing to scale back OnePlus in Western markets as smartphone demand weakens and component shor...
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Suno hack report points to YouTube scraping claims
404 Media reported that a hacker accessed Suno code and customer data, adding pressure to the AI music startup’s copyright and sec...
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SpaceX shares test IPO price as Starship launch nears
SpaceX briefly traded below its $135 IPO price, putting fresh attention on investor appetite before a Starship test flight.
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Crunchbase clarifies how its tech layoff tracker counts job cuts
Crunchbase says its tech layoffs tracker uses reported estimates and now reflects each company’s latest round of cuts.
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Microsoft fixes record 570 security flaws as AI finds more bugs
Microsoft said AI-assisted discovery helped produce a larger Patch Tuesday release, including fixes for two exploited zero-day fla...
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Spotify opens parent-managed child accounts to free users
Spotify is widening Managed Accounts beyond paid plans, giving families in six countries more control over what children can strea...
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PayPal closure highlights split in corporate venture capital
Big Tech is still backing AI startups aggressively, while some corporate venture arms are closing or selling stakes.
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Fintech funding rises as investors write fewer, larger checks
Crunchbase data shows fintech startups raised $28.6 billion globally in H1 2026, while deal count fell sharply from a year earlier...
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Senra raises $65 million to modernize wire harness manufacturing
The startup founded by a former SpaceX engineer is using software and automation to improve a stubbornly manual part of aerospace...
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OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol faces user claims of unwanted file deletions
Developers say OpenAI’s new coding model removed files and data without permission, a risk OpenAI had flagged in its own safety te...
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Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier and authors accuse Google of using copyrighted books to train Gemini without permission.
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