Built on the back of the sizable and influential BookTok community -- creators who discuss and review books on TikTok -- the app offered readers a place to chronicle and rate their books, get recommendations, and even add photos of things like favorite quotes…

Elon Musk's legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab's founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence.

Perplexity's Personal Computer brings AI agents to your Mac, and is now open to everyone.

The new benchmark rating applies to 2026 Tesla Model Y vehicles assembled on or after November 12, 2025.

The company is expanding its efforts to protect ChatGPT users in cases where conversations may turn to self-harm.

The cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Instructure again, defacing the login pages of several Instructure customer schools with an extortion message.

AI startup Pit is led by the co-founders of European scooter giant Voi and backed by a16z, which is leading the startup’s $16 million seed round.

Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro, who took over for Bob Iger earlier this year, has emphasized his intent to streamline the Disney experience.

The company made a series of other announcements during earnings, including a new commercial contract, a pilot program in Canada, and a collaboration.

The new features could be handy for customer service systems, but OpenAI says they have applications that work across a variety of other fields, including education and creator platforms.

The company is reportedly in talks to raise another $750 million at a pre-money valuation of more than $40 billion. It last raised in November at $32 billion.

Like many AI companies automating work that humans currently do, Basata will eventually face a harder question about where the line is between augmenting workers and displacing them. For now, the founders say the administrative staff they work with aren't…

PJM Interconnection — which oversees the grid for some of the densest data center developments on Earth — wants to overhaul itself. Not everyone thinks it's up to the task.

Airbnb also said its customer support AI bot now handles 40% of issues without escalating to a human agent.

After years of hints and preparation, Lime plans to enter the public markets. The company intends to list on ​Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "LIME." Lime did not share terms of the offering.

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Truecaller's ad revenue declined by 44%, leading to the layoffs.

Truecaller's ad revenue declined by 44%, leading to the layoffs.

The initial set of files housed on the site will include those containing unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire U.S. government. The materials have been reviewed for security purposes,…

Former cybersecurity executive Peter Williams stole several surveillance and hacking tools and sold them for $1.3 million to a Russian broker that works with Putin’s government.