Electric vehicle startup Rivian announced on Thursday that it has settled a lawsuit with some of its investors. The company continues to deny allegations of making “materially untrue” statements during its inial public offering but says it agreed to pay $250 million to clear itself of distractions as it focuses on building its next EV,

Microsoft is rolling out a new face for its AI, and its name is Mico. The company announced the new, animated blob-like avatar for Copilot’s voice mode yesterday as part of a “human-centered” rebranding of Microsoft’s Copilot AI efforts. Mico is part of a Microsoft program dedicated to the idea that “technology should work in

Meta violated the Digital Services Act (DSA) by failing to give Facebook and Instagram users simple mechanisms to report illegal content, the European Commission said in a preliminary decision announced yesterday. Meta also failed to give users an effective way to challenge content moderation decisions, the EC said. “When it comes to Meta, neither Facebook

Earlier this month, Tesla rolled out a new firmware update that added a pair of new driving modes for the controversial full self-driving (FSD) feature. One, called “Sloth,” relaxes acceleration and stays in its lane. The other, called “Mad Max,” does the opposite: It speeds and swerves through traffic to get you to your destination

Yesterday, Donald Trump announced on social media that he had been planning to “surge” troops into San Francisco this weekend—but was dissuaded from doing so by several tech billionaires. “Friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge,” Trump wrote. Who are these

Digital reading devices like the Kindle have existed for almost 20 years, and the standard eReader form factor has hardly changed at all. Amazon, Boox, and a few other companies have offered larger E Ink screens, but how about something smaller? Boox has unveiled its second-generation Palma e-reader, which still fits in your pocket but

One of the things that emerging diseases, including the COVID and Zika pandemics, have taught us is that it’s tough to keep up with infectious diseases in the modern world. Things like air travel can allow a virus to spread faster than our ability to develop therapies. But that doesn’t mean biotech has stood still;

A groundbreaking study from the University of Maryland has revealed something that might surprise you: more than 9% of all news coverage in U.S. newspapers now contains AI-generated text. Even more striking? AI-written content has appeared on the opinion pages of some of America’s most trusted publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street

Bricklayer AI has closed a $5 million seed round led by Tech Square Ventures. The round was oversubscribed, drawing continued support from Sovereign’s Capital, Dreamit Ventures, and BlueWing Ventures. All three firms participated in previous funding rounds and chose to double down on their investment. The Arlington, Virginia-based company builds an agentic cybersecurity platform that

Tensormesh has officially launched with $4.5 million in seed funding led by Laude Ventures. The company is bringing commercial-grade caching technology to enterprise AI infrastructure, promising to cut inference costs and latency by up to 10x. Their approach eliminates redundant computation in AI inference while keeping data and infrastructure under full enterprise control. The funding