More startups are hitting $10M ARR in 3 months than ever before

AI has brought the startup world the rise of companies that instantly hit multimillion-dollar ARR. Stripe revealed some data that shows how common this has become.

Anthropic won’t budge as Pentagon escalates AI dispute

The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday to loosen AI guardrails or face potential penalties, escalating a high-stakes dispute that raises questions about government leverage, vendor dependence, and investor confidence in defense tech.

Discord delays global rollout of age verification after backlash

The company added that 90% of users won’t need to verify their age and will be able to keep using Discord as usual.

Google’s new 1.9GW clean energy deal includes massive 100-hour battery

Form Energy’s iron-air batteries will store wind and solar power to keep the data center running 24/7.

CarGurus data breach affects 12.5 million accounts

Automotive marketplace CarGurus was the target of a data breach in which the names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers were stolen.

Former L3Harris Trenchant boss jailed for selling hacking tools to Russian broker

Peter Williams, the former head of U.S. hacking tools maker L3Harris Trenchant, was sentenced to seven years in prison for stealing and selling his former company’s hacking and surveillance tools to a Russian firm.

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.