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It’s not your imagination: AI seed startups are commanding higher valuations

DOMINIC-MADORI DAVIS

Among the most recent Y Combinator cohort, many startups were commanding $40 million valuations. But with more money comes higher expectations.

OpenAI, not yet public, raises $3B from retail investors in monster $122B fund raise

REBECCA BELLAN

The latest round, led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, values the AI lab at $852 billion as it nears an IPO.

Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1

DELL CAMERON, LOUISE MATSAKIS

Tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft are among those on a target list released by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Robotaxi companies refuse to say how often their AVs need remote help

SEAN O'KANE

Aurora, May Mobility, Motional, Nuro, Tesla, Waymo, and Zoox all refused to cough up a number during Senator Ed Markey's recent investigation.

Artemis II Countdown: How and When to Watch the Launch

JORGE GARAY

Here’s everything you need to know about the Artemis II mission, the long-awaited (and long-delayed) human return to the moon.

RFK Jr. wants Americans to use peptides that were banned over safety risks

BETH MOLE

The FDA is reportedly planning to allow production of 14 previously banned peptides.

Starlink satellite breaks apart into "tens of objects"; SpaceX confirms "anomaly"

JON BRODKIN

Satellite failure cause is unexplained after second "fragment creation event."

Salesforce announces an AI-heavy makeover for Slack, with 30 new features

LUCAS ROPEK

Slack just got a whole lot more useful.

Anthropic is having a month

CONNIE LOIZOS

A human really borks things at Anthropic for the second time this week.

Running local models on Macs gets faster with Ollama's MLX support

SAMUEL AXON

Apple Silicon Macs get a performance boost thanks to better unified memory usage.

Apple Will Push Out Rare ‘Backported’ Patches to Protect iOS 18 Users From DarkSword Hacking Tool

ANDY GREENBERG

As a DarkSword takeover technique spreads, Apple tells WIRED it will release fixes for millions of iPhone owners who remain on iOS 18 rather than force them to update to iOS 26 simply to be protected.

Toyota’s Woven Capital appoints new CIO and COO in push for finding the ‘future of mobility’

DOMINIC-MADORI DAVIS

Woven Capital is the growth-stage venture capital arm of Toyota, focused on backing founders building in space, cybersecurity, and autonomous driving.

Robotaxi Outage in China Leaves Passengers Stranded on Highways

ZEYI YANG

A suspected system failure froze Baidu’s robotaxis across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes.

Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open-source LiteLLM project

JAGMEET SINGH

The AI recruiting startup confirmed a security incident after an extortion hacking crew took credit for stealing data from the company's systems.

NASA is leading the way to the Moon, but the military won't be far behind

STEPHEN CLARK

"I just don't want to get caught flat-footed when we start to have to protect US interests out there."