A Los Angeles jury has found Meta and Google liable for intentionally building addictive social media platforms that harmed a young woman’s mental health, awarding her $3 million in compensatory damages in…
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A new app wants to cure loneliness by getting people off their phones and into the same room
A startup called Friending has launched a social platform built around a premise that sounds almost quaint in 2026: helping people make friends by meeting in person. The app, based in Raleigh,…
Pepper acquires YC-backed Alima to bring AI to food distribution’s messy product catalogues
Pepper, a New York-based technology platform for independent food distributors, has acquired Alima, a Y Combinator-backed startup that built ordering and procurement software for small food distributors in Latin America. The deal,…
Your finance team is still chasing invoices. Here’s why that costs more than you think
The average small business processes around 500 invoices per month. When that workflow runs on email threads, spreadsheets, and manual check runs, each invoice costs somewhere between $15 and $40 to handle….
London’s Granola raises $125M to turn meeting recordings into enterprise AI infrastructure
Granola, the London-based AI meeting app that records conversations without dropping a bot into the call, has raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Danny Rimer at Index Ventures,…
Decathlon doubles warehouse output with Exotec’s climbing robots across seven European sites
The world’s largest sporting goods retailer has turned seven of its European warehouses over to robots, and the early results suggest the machines are earning their keep. Decathlon announced on Tuesday that…
Meta cuts hundreds more jobs across Reality Labs, recruiting, and sales as AI spending doubles
Meta began cutting hundreds of jobs on Wednesday across Reality Labs, Facebook, recruiting, sales, and global operations, according to people familiar with the matter and LinkedIn posts from affected employees. The layoffs…
OpenAI Sora is gone. The artists are still working.
Last September, when OpenAI quietly released the Sora 2 app to the public, the discourse around it was not quiet at all. Commentators who had spent months watching the model’s preview clips,…
PAVE Space raises $40M to build orbital transfer vehicles
The Swiss startup, spun out of EPFL’s student rocketry programme that built Europe’s first student-made reusable rocket, has raised one of the largest seed rounds ever in European space. Visionaries Club and…
Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget
The London startup, founded by the team behind Darwin, acquired by Mercer in 2016, has built an AI platform that ingests fragmented global benefits data from PDFs, insurance contracts, and vendor portals…