Amnesty International says it found evidence that a government customer of Intellexa, a sanctioned surveillance vendor, used its Predator spyware against a prominent journalist in Angola.
Jack Altman joins Benchmark as GP
Jack Altman and Benchmark announced today that he would be joining the firm as a general partner.
Ford turns to F1 and bounties to build a $30,000 electric truck
The team, led by Tesla veteran Alan Clarke, is obsessed with efficiency.
Meta’s own research found parental supervision doesn’t really help curb teens’ compulsive social media use
An internal research study at Meta found that parental supervision may not help teens regulate their social media, and teens with trauma are more inclined to overuse social media.
Apple is reportedly cooking up a trio of AI wearables
As the AI hardware space heats up, the iPhone maker has multiple smart products in development.
Thrive raises $10B for new fund, its largest yet
Thrive Capital just raised $10 billion for its new fund– nearly double the size of its last fund.
Climactic launches hybrid fund to get startups through the ‘valley of death’
The new project, called Material Scale, will initially focus on climate tech startups in the apparel industry.
Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic has released a new version of its mid-size Sonnet model, keeping pace with the company’s four-month update cycle.
Mistral AI buys Koyeb in first acquisition to back its cloud ambitions
Mistral AI has agreed to buy Koyeb, a Paris-based startup that simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages the infrastructure behind it.
SpaceX vets raise $50M Series A for data center links
Mesh aims to mass-produce optical transceivers for AI data centers.