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The two wildly fast-growing rivals have raised massive sums, pushed into each other's home turf and now have dueling ad campaigns....

Rivian has reworked its loan deal with the Department of Energy and now expects to borrow $4.5 billion to build its new factory in Georgia, down from the original amount of $6.6 billion....

Web hosts are scrambling to fix the bug under active attack by hackers. One company said hackers have been abusing the bug for months....

OpenAI will begin rolling out it cybersecurity testing tool, GPT-5.5 Cyber only "to critical cyber defenders" at first....

The perpetually-struggling EV company made the payments while being investigated by the SEC. That four-year-long probe was ultimately closed in March....

OpenAI is launching additional opt-in protections for ChatGPT accounts. The new security initiative includes a new partnership with security key provider Yubico....

"Distillation" is a hot topic as frontier labs try to prevent smaller competitors from copying their models....

BioticsAI CEO Robhy Bustami joined Isabelle Johannessen on Build Mode to discuss how the company has navigated a highly regulated space and kept the team motivated while cutting through all the red tape....

Google announced on Thursday that it will begin rolling out Gemini to cars with Google built-in, marking a significant upgrade from the current Google Assistant. The move signals Google's push to bring more advanced, conversational AI into the driving experience. The announcement follows closely behind news from General Motors, which revealed yesterday that Gemini is […]...

The new hub features dedicated college group chats and personalized feeds designed to help students stay connected with their campus communities, even while they're away for the summer....

Link lets users connect cards, banks, and subscriptions, then authorize AI agents to spend securely via approval flows....

Salesforce lets its customers lead its product roadmap with the thinking that if one enterprise customer has a problem, the others likely do too....

Hertz is creating a new affiliate company called "Oro Mobility" to provide fleet management solutions "across a range of mobility segments."...

VC firm 137 Ventures has raised over $700 million to back growth-stage startups. Its portfolio includes SpaceX, Anduril, Hadrian....

The security bug is now fixed, but the patient who found it said it was challenging to alert the software company about the issue....

X is rolling out a rebuilt ads platform powered by AI as it works to grow revenue again....

As AI-generated artists and tracks flood music streaming platforms, Spotify is rolling out a new “Verified by Spotify” badge to help listeners more easily identify authentic human artists. To receive the badge, artists must meet certain criteria. Spotify looks for an identifiable artist presence both on and off platform, like concert dates, merch, and linked […]...

Netflix is redesigning its mobile app and introducing Clips, a vertical video feed intended to help users discover new content by sharing highlights from original Netflix programming....

Meta said over 8 billion advertisers have used at least one of its gen AI tools...

The update targets content aggregators that don't post original content and instead simply re-upload others' posts....