Anthropic’s India expansion collides with a local company that already had the name

India’s Anthropic Software has taken the U.S. AI giant to court over a name dispute.

MrBeast’s company buys Gen Z-focused fintech app Step

YouTube megastar MrBeast announced on Monday that his company, Beast Industries, is buying Step, a teen-focused banking app.

Bluesky finally adds drafts

The move comes as Bluesky’s competitors, X and Threads, have long supported drafts.

Waymo is testing driverless robotaxis in Nashville

This is the typical next step before it launches a commercial service.

Tem raises $75M to remake electricity markets using AI

Tem has built a transaction engine that relies on AI to cut costs. Lightspeed led the round to help the startup expand to the U.S. and Australia.

India makes Aadhaar more ubiquitous, but critics say security and privacy concerns remain

India’s Aadhaar is moving into wallets, hotels and policing through a new app. Critics say that amid the broader Aadhaar rollout, it’s unclear how data shared through the new app would prevent breaches or leaks.

YouTube rolls out an AI playlist generator for Premium users

YouTube Music is rolling out a new AI-powered playlist-generation feature that allows Premium users on iOS and Android to use text prompts to create playlists.

The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most

Because employees could do more, work began bleeding into lunch breaks and late evenings. The employees’ to-do lists expanded to fill every hour that AI freed up, and then kept going.

Anthropic closes in on $20B round

The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but intense competition between frontier labs and the ongoing cost of compute have made them eager to raise as quickly as possible.

Ex-Googlers are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data

Founded by former Google Japan leaders, InfiniMind is building enterprise AI to turn vast, unused video archives into searchable, actionable business intelligence.