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TikTok is still down, here are all the latest updates

More than a day after TikTok’s issues began, TikTok USDS says the problems are the result of a power outage at a data center and s...

As Tech Chiefs Woo Trump, Silicon Valley Seethes Over M...

Executives, investors and engineers are speaking out against the Trump administration after the killings of Alex Pretti and anothe...

Social Media Giants Face Landmark Legal Tests on Child ...

Starting this week, a series of trials will test a new legal strategy claiming that Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube caused personal...

The Social Media Addiction Trials: What to Know

Landmark trials beginning this week will test a new legal strategy claiming that Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube caused personal in...

Tech workers call for CEOs to speak up against ICE afte...

More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs...

Saudi satirist hacked with Pegasus spyware wins damages...

The London High Court awarded the London-based satirist and human rights activist Ghanem Al-Masarir more than £3 million, after fi...

VC firm 2150 raises €210M fund to solve cities’ climate...

Europe-based venture fund 2150 raised the money to invest in climate tech startups that help solve cities' carbon footprint.

TikTok attributes recent glitches to a power outage at ...

The timing of these outages lines up with the long-awaited creation of a separate U.S. TikTok entity last week.

Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including S...

Claude users will now be able to call up interactive apps inside the chatbot interface, with Cowork integration coming soon.

Obvious Ventures lands fund five with a 360-degree view...

The 12-year-old firm raised $360,360,360 for its fifth fund. And there's a reason for that number.

TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after ...

Skylight, co-founded by CEO Tori White and CTO Reed Harmeyer, offers a built-in video editor; user profiles; support for likes, co...

AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial ‘nervo...

Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger challenge: showing customers and investors how this AI-powe...

Rad Power Bikes reaches deal to sell itself for $13.2M

A company called Life Electric Vehicle Holdings has emerged as the top bidder for Rad Power's assets. It's not clear what the comp...

Social network UpScrolled sees surge in downloads follo...

UpScrolled is a social network that pledges to remain impartial to political agendas. It blends familiar features from Instagram a...

Here’s the tech powering ICE’s deportation crackdown 

From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportati...

YouTubers sue Snap for alleged copyright infringement i...

The YouTubers claim Snap, like others, used AI datasets meant for research and academic use to train its AI models.

Vinod Khosla publicly disavows Keith Rabois’ comments o...

Unwavering Trump loyalist and VC Keith Rabois caused his colleague and his firm's founder to distance themselves from his comment...

Some international attendees are skipping 2026 GDC due ...

Many members of the international games industry are skipping the 2026 Game Developers Conference because of the growing ICE prese...

Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebo...

In the coming months, Meta is going to explore a premium experience on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp that gives users access t...

AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation two months...

Ricursive joins Recursive and Unconventional AI in raising massive funds at multi-billion valuations out of the gate.

Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant s...

Google did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement of the class-action case, which accused the firm of "unlawful and intentional in...

South Korea’s Edenlux set for U.S. debut of eye-strain ...

Edenlux builds wearable tech to protect and train your eyes, inspired by its founder’s personal vision recovery.

Qualcomm backs SpotDraft to scale on-device contract AI...

SpotDraft now processes over 1 million contracts annually using its AI tool, with contract volumes up 173% year-over-year.

Yann LeCun, an A.I. Pioneer, Warns the Tech ‘Herd’ Coul...

Yann LeCun helped create the technology behind today’s chatbots. Now he says many tech companies are on the wrong path to creating...

Silicon Valley Wants to Build A.I. That Can Improve A.I...

Ricursive Intelligence, founded by two former Google researchers and valued at $4 billion, is among several efforts to automate th...