Seven years after unveiling Mirror at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2018, Brynn Putnam is returning to the stage where it all began. The serial entrepreneur, who turned a fitness concept into a $500 million acquisition by Lululemon, will debut her latest…
SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket successfully completed its tenth test flight on Tuesday evening. The mission achieved several long-sought milestones and ended a previous string of failures. The 403-foot vehicle lifted off from Starbase, SpaceX’s launch facility, at 7:30 p.m. ET…
Assort Health, a startup that uses AI to automate patient communication for specialty healthcare practices, has raised approximately $50 million in a Series B funding round. This investment values the company at $750 million, according to three sources familiar with…
SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket successfully lifted off on its tenth test flight Tuesday evening. The mission achieved two long-sought milestones and ended a recent string of failures. The 403-foot vehicle launched from Starbase, SpaceX’s launch facility and recently incorporated city,…
Alphabet’s life sciences division, Verily, laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program on Monday. CEO Stephen Gillett announced this difficult decision to wind down the program in a staff memo, as reported by Business Insider. Gillett wrote that…
Protesters stormed Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters on Monday. They entered president Brad Smith’s office in Building 34, which forced a temporary lockdown of the facility. The group, calling themselves “No Azure for Apartheid,” live-streamed their sit-in on Twitch. They hoisted banners,…
Anthropic has launched a research preview of a browser-based AI agent powered by its Claude AI models. The new agent, Claude for Chrome, is initially rolling out to a group of 1,000 subscribers on Anthropic’s Max plan, which costs between…
Meta plans to launch a super PAC to support California candidates who favor a light-touch approach to artificial intelligence regulation, according to a report from Politico. This development coincides with other major Silicon Valley players, including Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI’s…
The popular library e-book and audiobook app Libby is adding AI, much to the disappointment of some readers and librarians who would prefer not to have AI inserted into their favorite apps. The new feature, called Inspire Me, allows users…
The Trump administration made an unprecedented and confusing move last week when it announced plans to convert money Intel was supposed to receive through government grant programs from the Joe Biden era into a 10% equity stake. While it remains…
