Startups / TechCrunch ·
Food delivery startup Wonder files for IPO as it explores its next big bite
Following years of fundraising, acquisitions, and expansion, food delivery startup Wonder is moving closer to becoming a publicly traded company.
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Salon is shutting down after 31 years
Salon launched 31 years ago as one of the first online-only news magazine outlets, and it announced today in an unsigned post that it's ceasing publication. The company said that the "business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly over the years," and it decided that…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Shield AI buys radar maker Echodyne for $5.3B at a $28.8B valuation
Shield AI agreed to buy Echodyne, which makes radars for counter-drone systems, for $5.3B. It is raising $2.5B in equity and debt to fund the deal, at a $28.8B valuation. Shield wants Echodyne to help it sell beyond the military, to areas like public safety. Shield AI has agreed to buy radar maker…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Visa tested 22 AI models as shoppers, and they failed 42.8% of the time
Visa has launched an AI shopping benchmark, and in its first round the AI models failed 42.8% of their test runs. The Visa Agentic Commerce Benchmark put 22 AI models from 12 labs through 15 shopping tasks, the company said in a statement on Thursday. The tasks included buying a TV, a laptop and a…
Business / Fortune ·
OpenAI debuts new cybersecurity-focused AI model amid growing alarm about AI-driven cyber attacks
GPT-6 Cyber will initially be available to a small number of approved customers due to concerns that, in the wrong hands, it could supercharge cyberattacks.
Tech / The Verge ·
The midterms proved once and for all that X is not real life
A week before the midterm elections, Vice President JD Vance hosted a town hall in Texas with Fox News host Jesse Watters. It was a friendly event with a friendly audience in what should have been a friendly state, and maybe that's why Vance couldn't help himself. When a college student earnestly…
AI / The Decoder ·
No AI agent scores above 12 percent on SemiAnalysis' new real-world work benchmark
SemiAnalysis is putting AI agents through simulated knowledge work in its new GDPx benchmark, covering everything from chip design to quant trading. No model breaks 12 percent. Claude Opus 5.5 leads narrowly over Gemini 4 Carbon. Critics point to the small number of tasks per domain and uneven…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Sony’s $60 MDR-3R headphones bring back the original Walkman look
Sony launched the $60 MDR-3R, wired headphones modelled on the pair that shipped with the first Walkman in 1979. They add USB-C, a microphone and a remote. An $80 Stranger Things edition is sold with Netflix, as wired audio makes a comeback. Sony has launched the MDR-3R, a $60 pair of wired…
Business / Fortune ·
Elon Musk spent at least $225 million in Texas. The governor-elect who sued for Abbott emails and vowed a data center freeze won anyway
Hinojosa has questioned a $1.66 billion tax break for Musk’s $16.8 billion Terafab chip plant, and Democrats now control the Texas House.
Business / Fortune ·
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The young people in those streets did not come out of nowhere. The last 20 years did real damage.
Tech / Wired ·
Reddit Founder Says Building Social Media Apps Is ‘Not Cool Anymore’
Alexis Ohanian is trying to figure out what’s next for user-generated content now that so much of the internet is “compromised.”
Business / Fortune ·
Republicans made Hasan Piker their midterm villain. Now he’s suing Scott Jennings for $72.5 million
The Twitch streamer is seeking $72.5 million from CNN’s Scott Jennings over a spliced clip. His lawyer says Ted Cruz and others should “buckle up.”
AI / TechCrunch ·
Axiom Math wants to keep AI slop out of mathematics
As AI floods math with unchecked proofs, Axiom Math is betting on verification. The startup’s AI agents just formally verified the Stacks Project, one of the field’s biggest libraries.
Business / Fortune ·
Abdul El-Sayed’s commencement speech in 2007 was so good it led Bill Clinton to tell him to go into politics at just 22 years old
Abdul El-Sayed’s University of Michigan speech impressed Bill Clinton so much that he encouraged the future senator-elect to go into politics.
AI / The Decoder ·
Tencent releases Hy4 with vision and computer use, claims second place among Chinese AI models
Tencent has unveiled Hy4, its first multimodal language model that understands images and can operate software on its own. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, it scores 35 points, solid but behind Kimi K3.1 Pro. On hard math and complex image analysis, Hy4 still trails the best commercial…
Business / Crunchbase News ·
Exclusive: Nurx And Journey Clinical Co-Founders Raise $6M For Mental Health Startup Siggy
Siggy has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to build a mental health service that uses AI to collect patients’ histories and track progress between appointments with licensed clinicians, the startup told Crunchbase News exclusively.
Tech / Ars Technica ·
Statehouse wins give Democrats new power to push clean energy
Democrats erased the GOP’s trifecta edge and gained new power over energy policy.
Tech / The Verge ·
Blue Origin’s next launch now won’t happen until 2027
Blue Origin plans to do its next New Glenn rocket launch in January 2027, according to CNBC and the Financial Times, which cite a memo from CEO Dave Limp sent to staff. The new timeline follows a May launchpad explosion that damaged Blue Origin's New Glenn launchpad ahead of a flight that would have…
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Startups / EU-Startups ·
The EIC confirms €1.8 billion for startups in 2027, with expanded defence and women-led startup support
The European Commission has adopted the 2027 European Innovation Council (EIC) Work Programme, allocating €1.8 billion to support DeepTech startups, scale-ups and researchers across Europe. The funding package aims to help promising technologies move from early-stage research to commercialisation,…
Startups / TechCrunch ·
Zipline hits $21.5B valuation as Walmart expands bet on drone delivery
Zipline raised $1.5 billion and ramped up its partnership with Walmart.
Tech / Wired ·
Area Man Feels Joy Online for First Time in Years
A day after the US midterm elections gave Democrats control of Congress, Onion CEO Ben Collins and comedian Patti Harrison spoke to WIRED about the salve of satire during politically fraught times.
AI / TechCrunch ·
Dropbox acquires Tigris Data for $350M to bolster its AI infrastructure
The deal is expected to support the development of DBX Agent Cloud, a new storage platform aimed at developers building AI models and agents.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Daniel Dines: workflows will go from people-centric to AI-centric
UiPath founder and CEO Daniel Dines would rather give a task to an AI agent than to a person, as long as the agent does it as well as a human. He would choose the agent even when it costs more, he told TNW. Dines spoke to Cristian Dina at FUSION in Dubai for the […] This story continues at The…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Amazon drops Grubhub and puts Uber Eats inside its own app
Uber Eats is now Amazon’s restaurant delivery partner for Prime members in the US, replacing Grubhub. The two companies announced the deal on Thursday. Prime members can now order Uber Eats on Amazon, on the website or in the Amazon Shopping app, without an Uber account. They pay no delivery fee…