Stripe is reportedly eyeing deal to buy some or all of PayPal

Stripe might be looking to buy PayPal, or parts of it, per early reports.

Apple rolls out age-verification tools worldwide to comply with growing web of child safety laws

Apple complies with new age-assurance laws in the U.S. and abroad, including those that block users from downloading apps aimed at adults.

Uber engineers built an AI version of their boss

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company’s employees have gone all in on AI, going so far as to build a chatbot of him that they use to practice their pitches.

Spanish ‘soonicorn’ Multiverse Computing releases free compressed AI model

Spanish startup Multiverse Computing has released a new version of its HyperNova 60B model on Hugging Face that, it says, bests Mistral’s model.

Self-driving tech startup Wayve raises $1.2B from Nvidia, Uber, and three automakers

Major automakers, tech giants, AI companies, and chipmakers are all trying to get a piece of Wayve.

India’s AI boom pushes firms to trade near-term revenue for users

ChatGPT and rivals are testing whether India’s massive AI user boom can translate into paying customers as free offers wind down.

Nvidia challenger AI chip startup MatX raised $500M

The startup was founded by former Google TPU engineers in 2023.

Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker accused of buying exploits stolen from US defense contractor

The U.S. Treasury announced it was imposing sanctions against a Russian broker of zero-day exploits, its founder and two affiliates, citing a threat to U.S. national security. Another affiliated zero-day broker in the United Arab Emirates was also sanctioned.

Google adds a way to create automated workflows to Opal

The company said that a new agent being introduced in Opal will allow users to create mini-apps that can let them plan and execute tasks using text prompts.

OpenAI COO says ‘we have not yet really seen AI penetrate enterprise business processes’

There is a lot of talk around AI agents taking over business processes and claiming that “SaaS is dead.” While these predictions have moved SaaS stocks at times, they haven’t really come true.