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How the Sleepbuds maker, Ozlo, is building a platform for sleep data
Ozlo Sleepbuds are going to have a big year, with new products, AI features, and more.
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Meta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power
Two smaller companies, Oklo and TerraPower, along with Vistra, a large energy company, just signed agreements with Meta.
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X restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s ire
Elon Musk's AI company has restricted Grok's controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool invited heated criticism from across the world for letting users generate sexualized images of women and children.
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The venture firm that ate Silicon Valley just raised another $15 billion
In a blog post published Friday morning, Ben Horowitz writes that "as the American leader in Venture Capital, the fate of new technology in the United States rests partly on our shoulders." It's the kind of statement certain to cause agita at rival firms.
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Anthropic adds Allianz to growing list of enterprise wins
Anthropic announces its first enterprise deal of 2026, which includes building agents for, and giving Claude code to, Allianz.
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Inside CES 2026’s “physical AI” takeover
After years of chatbots and image generators, AI is finally leaving the screen. At CES 2026, that shift became impossible to ignore. The annual tech showcase in Las Vegas was dominated by “physical AI” and robotics, from Boston Dynamic’s newly redesigned Atlas humanoid robot to AI-powered ice makers (yes, really). The companies in attendance clearly want consumers […]
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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 couple of days occupied by press conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMD and previews from Sunday’s Unveiled event.
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Data security startup Cyera hits $9B valuation six months after being valued at $6B
Cyera raised another $400 million just six months after its last huge round.
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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 — and governments around the world are promising to take action.
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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 good their product is? In this season finale episode of Build Mode, our guest has an answer: Startups have focused too much on product development and not enough on distribution excellence. Paul Irving is partner and […]