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Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will operate as Skydance once their merger closes, Paramount CEO David Ellison announced Friday. Skydance is the name of Ellison’s original film production company.

Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology companies like Tesla, Waymo, and Zoox will have to provide first responders with local, on-the-ground support when their robotaxis cause problems under a new California law. The companies could also face penalties if a robotaxi blocks police or firefighters for more than 30 minutes.

Amazon Web Services released an open-s increasingly seeking intelligence that is more suited to computer automation than frontier LLMs

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a “State of the Force” address on Wednesday to launch a new effort to study how war may be fought as tech advances rapidly. It’s being called Project Meridian.

I’ve been a fan of SUSE and openSUSE for a long time. I actually remember SUSE Linux before it was SUSE Enterprise Linux or SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop. Even back then, the distribution was a power user’s dream come true. 

Meta is refuting a journalist’s claim that its AI agent Muse read the user’s private messages without permission. Following an earlier report from Inc. columnist Jason Aten that detailed the issue, Meta VP of Communications Andy Stone pushed back, making it clear that the company does not believe its product did this without the user’s…

Apple began rolling out Apple Pay in India on Tuesday, as TechCrunch first reported. Its first banking partner is Axis Bank, the country’s third-largest private-sector lender. The move brings the company’s payments service to the world’s most populous country after years of delays in a market dominated by the state-backed United Payments Interface (UPI).

Almost every AI tool’s demo shows a user sparring with the assistant to book travel, as it seems to be the most frequent use case. The viral Instinct agent is no different, as it sees more than 50% of transactions on the platform for travel, the company’s founder, Noah Shinn, said in a recent podcast.

Peak XV Partners, one of the largest venture capital firms investing in markets including India and Southeast Asia with more than $10 billion in assets under management, has increased how much it invests per startup through Surge, its seed-stage investing platform, as it unveils a new cohort of 18 companies.

An AI demo can look brilliant in five minutes. Then customers start using the product. They push it into workflows you didn’t anticipate. They expect it to work reliably. And they quickly find out whether it solves a big enough problem to become part of how they work — or becomes another AI experiment they…