Go play this secret game in your TikTok DMs

The game is available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DM chats and in group chats.

Caller ID app Truecaller hits 500 million monthly users

Truecaller now has more than 4 million paying users across the world.

Yupp shuts down after raising $33M from a16z crypto’s Chris Dixon

Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp is closing its business, the company said Tuesday.

Meta was finally held accountable for harming teens. Now what?

Meta faces thousands more court cases while Congress has proposed numerous bills addressing children’s online safety, some heavily criticized.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anthropic is having a month

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

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

Slack just got a whole lot more useful.

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

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