Amazon to invest additional $35B in India by 2030, taking total planned spending to $75B

The e-commerce giant said the new investment will support its efforts to digitize small businesses and strengthen its logistics and operations footprint in India.

Google invests in Fervo’s $462M round to unlock even more geothermal energy

Fervo Energy’s Series E round will help the company build additional phases of its Cape Station power plant while beginning development on new sites.

Adobe brings Photoshop, Express and Acrobat features to ChatGPT

ChatGPT’s 800 million plus userbase can now use Adobe’s apps to modify images and PDFs

Max Hodak is more worried about Twitter than brain-computer interface hacking

This week on StrictlyVC Download, Connie Loizos speaks with Science Corp. founder Max Hodak to discuss how brain-computer interfaces are arriving faster than anyone realizes. The Neuralink co-founder and former president shares how his company recently achieved what may be the biggest breakthrough in vision restoration in decades, enabling 80% of blind patients to read… Continua a leggere Max Hodak is more worried about Twitter than brain-computer interface hacking

Slack CEO Denise Dresser to join OpenAI as chief revenue officer

OpenAI says that Dresser will be responsible for the company’s revenue strategy in enterprise and customer success.

Boom Supersonic raises $300M to build natural gas turbines for Crusoe data centers

Crusoe will pay Boom $1.25 billion for more than a gigawatt of generating capacity with deliveries of the turbines starting in 2027.

Amazon’s Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial-recognition feature to video doorbells

The feature lets you identify the people who regularly come to your door by creating a catalog of up to 50 faces. The company says the Ring feature is opt in and the biometric data isn’t used to train AI models.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era

Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI are backing the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation, donating MCP, Goose, and AGENTS.md to standardize AI agents, boost interoperability, and curb proprietary fragmentation.

Amazon adds delivery tracking, last-minute adds, gift ideas to Alexa+

Amazon upgrades Alexa+ with new shopping tools, turning Echo screens into hubs for orders, deals, and gift buying.

VSCO lays off 24 staff as its consumer business suffers

In an internal memo seen by TechCrunch, VSCO’s CEO Eric Wittman said the company’s consumer business had declined more than expected, and some of its new growth initiatives didn’t yield the expected results.