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The venture firm that ate Silicon Valley just raised another $15 billion

Andreessen Horowitz just announced the firm has just raised a little more than $15 billion in new funding. The...

‘I fought a humanoid robot and won – this is why physical AI can’t replace us yet’

My first fight with a robot started badly.I punched it hard in the chest and felt a jarring sensation...

Grok AI image editing limited to paid subscribers after reports of deepfakes

Image editing on X's Grok AI tool has been limited to paid subscribers, according to a message displayed by...

Anthropic adds Allianz to growing list of enterprise wins

AI research lab Anthropic continues to land sizable enterprise deals. Its latest entails bringing its large language models to...

CES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia’s debuts to AMD’s new chips to Razer’s AI oddities 

CES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed...

Data security startup Cyera hits $9B valuation six months after being valued at $6B

Data security startup Cyera continues on a growth tear. On Thursday, it announced a $400 million Series F funding...

Governments grapple with the flood of non-consensual nudity on X

For the past two weeks, X has been flooded with AI-manipulated nude images, created by the Grok AI chatbot....

GTMfund has rewritten the distribution playbook for the AI era

Building software products has never been easier, so why are so many well-funded startups failing to take off no matter how...

Critics pan spyware maker NSO’s transparency claims amid its push to enter US market

NSO Group, one of the most well-known and controversial makers of government spyware, released a new transparency report on...

EverNitro is simplifying the process of crafting silky nitro coffee at CES 2026

​XBREW Lab debuted its countertop nitro beverage machine, EverNitro, at CES this week, offering nitro coffee enthusiasts a more...

I watched LG’s new home robot CLOid do laundry but I have questions

CES is always chock-full of robots, and this year electronics giant LG announced a new bot, dubbed CLOid, that...

Internet collapses in Iran amid protests over economic crisis

Internet connectivity collapsed across Iran on Thursday amid nationwide protests, according to web monitoring firms.  “I think we’re at a...