A Czech AI startup says it can detect drones by sound for €150 per sensor, and it wants to wire up power grids first
UC Davis brain implant lets ALS patient speak with 99% accuracy and work full time, no researchers needed
Qualcomm launches Snapdragon Reality Elite and a white-label toolkit for AI glasses, betting the next platform is not a phone
A new Android trojan called Rokarolla targets 217 banking apps and can steal your PIN, SMS codes, and crypto wallet funds
Google rolls out Android 17 with Gemini Intelligence, foldable gaming mode, and tighter privacy controls
Snap launches its AR glasses at $2,195 as a consumer product, betting the company on augmented reality
Rivian lays off hundreds of workers one week after launching R2 deliveries as it chases its first profit
I was in OpenAI’s first intern cohort. Here’s what it taught me about becoming an AI-native engineer
CyCognito pushes AI pentesting beyond vulnerability scans as enterprise attack surfaces evolve
Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop has a trackpad that rumbles like a game controller
Attackers hijacked over 1,500 Arch Linux packages to steal developers’ secrets, no hacking required
Mobileye puts self-driving tech in 230 million cars. Now it wants to run its own robotaxis.
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SpaceX makes its $60bn Cursor takeover official, days after its record IPO
SailPoint plans to buy Entro to pour non-human identities into its “Agentic Fabric”
1Password acquires Apono to govern what AI agents can do once they’re inside
This Swedish startup doesn’t want to give patent lawyers AI tools. It wants to replace them.
BAE Systems is funding the startups that want to disrupt it
This a16z-backed startup says the fix for AI errors is a weaker model, not a smarter one
Nvidia is backing a startup that turns its own GPUs into a commodity
Nuvei is buying Payoneer for $2.75bn to build a one-stop rival to Stripe
DeepSeek closes $7bn-plus round with an unusual structure
Exclusive: Optiak raises €4m to build an orchestration layer for enterprise AI
Three Xbox studios are trying to buy their way out of Microsoft’s gaming restructuring
Java’s biggest language change in a decade is finally landing. It took 197,000 lines of code.
