Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.

OpenAI is rolling out a 'lightweight' version of its ChatGPT deep research tool, powered by the company's recently launched o4-mini AI model.

This AI startup raised $5.3 million to help people “cheat on everything.” But in the age of AI, how do you define cheating? Columbia University recently suspended student Roy Lee for building a tool to help people cheat on engineering interviews. He’s been…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei set forth a goal for his company to "reliably detect most AI model problems" by 2027.

It turns out that decentralized social networks can go down, too. On Thursday evening, the decentralized social network Bluesky experienced a significant

Troubled electric vehicle startup Faraday Future's board of directors has appointed founder Jia Yueting as the company's co-CEO, three years after he was

Greece Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, will join StrictlyVC's stage in Athens on Thursday night, May 8. Register your ticket here.

Connecticut's largest healthcare provider said it was hit by ransomware in March.

Chinese startup Manus AI has picked up $75 million in a funding round led by Benchmark at a roughly $500 million valuation, according to Bloomberg.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, walked into the sunlit hotel conference room in Brooklyn on Thursday to meet with a dozen youth leaders working in tech

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Google says that more and more users are turning to its AI-powered search features, including AI Overviews and Circle to Search.

An OpenAI researcher who worked on GPT-4.5 had their green card denied. The news comes as the U.S. views foreign workers with increased scrutiny.

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Slate Auto, the buzzy new EV startup that broke stealth this week, is close to locking in a former printing plant located in Warsaw, Indiana as the future

In the latest development of an increasingly public dispute between HR and payroll services rivals, Deel has filed a countersuit against Rippling. To

Anthropic sent a takedown notice to a dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding tool. The developer community isn't terribly pleased.