​Still Bright is now loaded up with $18.7 million in seed money to build out its demonstration unit.  

​PlayerZero landed angel investors like Databricks’ Matei Zaharia, Dropbox’s Drew Houston, Figma’s Dylan Field, and Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch, its founder says.  

​Gov. Tim Walz activated the state military’s cyber forces to help ensure public services continue to run as the city of Saint Paul battles an ongoing cyberattack.  

​Skechers launches kids shoes with built-in AirTag holder.  

​A marketing automation startup called Conversation has a founding story that sounds like it could have been an episode of the HBO show “Silicon Valley.”  

​People are downloading and spending money on Gen AI apps more than ever.  

​YouTube is tweaking its profanity-related rules to allow creators to monetize videos with swearing in them, provided the profanity is contained to the first seven seconds of the video.  

​Israel-based eVTOL startup AIR has raised $23 million to scale production of both its piloted and uncrewed cargo aircraft, and enter the U.S.  

​Observe just raised a $156 million Series C round as the company looks to offer support for Apache Iceberg by the end of the year.  

​Google confirmed it will sign the European Union’s general purpose AI code of practice. Meta has already said it will not sign the voluntary framework.