Waymo this week will begin mapping and collecting data in Chicago and Charlotte. The move comes as Waymo announces it is currently operating its robotaxis fully autonomously in 10 US cities.

Public backlash over the data center boom is leading to a variety of draconian policies — including bans on new construction.

The wearable incentivizes healthy behavior with points that can be redeemed for health products.

Kalshi fined the MrBeast editor, Artem Kaptur, over $20,000.

The new privacy tech uses different types of pixels to let you block certain apps and notifications from being viewed by others.

The former boss of a U.S. hacking tools maker was jailed for selling highly sensitive software exploits to a Russian broker. This is how we first learned of his arrest, reported the story, and some of the unanswered questions we still have.

A tax accountant saw Elon Musk fans bidding up a Kalshi prediction market and saw a sure bet to make easy money.

Snapchat is the latest social media platform to launch awards for creators, joining TikTok and Instagram.

Nearly five years after graduating into an independent Alphabet company, Intrinsic is moving under Google's domain.

Many hyperscalers have already made public commitments to cover electricity cost increases.

"The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company's earnings.

Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside applications like a person with a laptop would.

Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed. The startup has seen early customer traction from AI search tools like ChatGPT.

The Meta-owned social platform says that while it already blocks users from searching for suicide and self-harm content, these new alerts are designed to make sure parents are aware if their teen is repeatedly trying to search for this content so that they…

Jest, a marketplace for messaging games, emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding.

Trace is launching with $3 million in seed funding, including investment from Y Combinator, Zeno Ventures, Transpose Platform Management, Goodwater Capital, Formosa Capital, and WeFunder.

Figma is integrating OpenAI's coding assistant Codex a week after it announced a similar integration with Anthropic's Claude Code.

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The latest round of layoffs marks eBay’s third workforce reduction in the past three years.

X has launched an expanded set of aspect ratio support for both image and video ads, so advertisers can now reuse assets they've created for other platforms.