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Secondary sales shift from founder windfalls to employee-retention tools AI startups like Clay and ElevenLabs are using early liquidity to keep their best talent. AI startups like Clay and ElevenLabs…
Meta tests a standalone app for its AI-generated ‘Vibes’ videos Launched last September, Vibes lets you create and share short-form AI-generated videos and access a dedicated feed that displays AI…
Pacific Fusion finds a cheaper way to make its fusion reactor work The fusion power startup recently completed some experiments at Sandia National Laboratory's Z Machine and shared the results…
Trump’s critical mineral reserve is an admission that the future is electric The administration's $12 billion stockpile of critical minerals is aimed at blunting China's influence. But it also revels…
Data breach at govtech giant Conduent balloons, affecting millions more Americans The ransomware attack at Conduent allowed hackers to steal a "significant number of individuals’ personal information" from the govtech…
Fundamental raises $255 million Series A with a new take on big data analysis Fundamental has built a new foundation model to solve an old problem: how to draw insights…
Substack confirms data breach affecting users’ email addresses and phone numbers Substack said that customer data was accessed in October 2025, but wasn't discovered until early February. Substack said that…
ElevenLabs CEO: Voice is the next interface for AI ElevenLabs CEO argued at Web Summit Qatar that voice is the next interface for AI, as OpenAI, Google, and Apple push…
Google’s subscriptions rise in Q4 as YouTube pulls $60B in yearly revenue The company said it now has 325 million paying users across Google One and YouTube Premium, up from…
Spotify ventures into physical book sales, adds new audiobook features Spotify users in the U.S. and the UK will soon be able to buy physical books in the app. There's…