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Robinhood’s venture fund IPO attracted 150,000+ retail investors, CEO says

SARAH PEREZ

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says more than 150,000 retail investors joined the fintech’s new venture fund, which offers exposure to private tech companies like OpenAI, Stripe, Databricks, and Oura before they go public.

Trump's Team Wants Him to Accept an Iran Deal He's Already Rejected

HUGO LOWELL

As chaotic negotiations over the end of the Iran war continue, US negotiators think they have the framework for a deal in place. Now they just have to sell the president on it.

Microsoft’s AI data center push is colliding with its clean power goals

TIM DE CHANT

The push for new data centers at Microsoft is putting one of the its key clean power goals at risk.

Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A

DOMINIC-MADORI DAVIS

Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion.

A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool

FERNANDA GONZÁLEZ

To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure.

Is xAI a neocloud now?

RUSSELL BRANDOM

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.

Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’

AISHA MALIK

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.

Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.

SARAH PEREZ

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.

A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom

JAGMEET SINGH

The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.

Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good

ASHLEY BELANGER

Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing.

TSMC taps wind power as AI chip demand soars, Taiwan feels energy crunch

JEREMY HSU

TSMC backs renewables during record demand for energy-hungry chip manufacturing.

SpaceX is starting to move on from the world's most successful rocket

STEPHEN CLARK

Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is set to become SpaceX's busiest launch site—for now.

Court strikes down FCC anti-discrimination rule opposed by Internet providers

JON BRODKIN

Chairman Brendan Carr celebrates FCC court loss in case over Biden-era rule.

Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX

SAMUEL AXON

Deal follows others with Microsoft, Amazon, and more.

Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla

MAXWELL ZEFF, PARESH DAVE

Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans to start a rival AI lab, potentially led by Altman or Demis Hassabis.