Contract records show ICE is arming its new agents with military-grade gear, from Silicon Valley’s autonomous drones to Glock handguns.| The Wiretap
ICE handed the controversial facial recognition company its biggest federal contract to date as it continues its illegal immigration crackdown.| The Wiretap
People’s conversations with Claude began popping up in Google search results — just like what happened with ChatGPT and Grok. They’ve now disappeared.| Iain Martin
Fluidstack’s revenues ballooned to $66 million by selling access to GPUs and landing a deal to build a massive AI data center for the French government.| Iain Martin
Nathan Xu’s Plaud has sold more than 1 million AI recording devices that transcribe and summarize the busy days of doctors, lawyers and business people.| Forbes
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at whether Congress will extend Obamacare subsidies, the latest data on Lilly’s obesity pill and more.| Forbes
Plus: xAI published thousands of private Grok conversations.| Rashi Shrivastava
The AI juggernaut is working with Founders Fund-backed startup Binti in its first foray into government social work.| Forbes
The perpetrators allegedly acquired a list of gig workers and tricked them into sharing one-time passcodes, before buying gift cards, the FBI says.| Thomas Fox-Brewster
Revenue from Chinese giant ByteDance’s short video app leapt up 38% to $6.3 billion last year in Europe even as it faces the threat of being banned in the United States.| Iain Martin
xAI published conversations with Grok and made them searchable on Google, including a plan to assassinate Elon Musk and instructions for making fentanyl and bombs.| Forbes
Plus: Anthropic suspends OpenAI’s API access to its models.| Forbes
If Alphabet splits into five parts, the resulting faster growth could boost the company value. But $67 billion in synergies would be lost.| Peter Cohan
The latest jobs report uncovers key job search trends and opportunities amid weakness in the labor market. See how the fresh data can shape your career strategy.| Forbes
With a $31 million raise, Fable is aiming to take on multi-billion companies with its AI-generated security training targeted at employees who need it.| Forbes
Centene reported a shock loss while beating the Q2 revenue view. Shares initially fell 14.5% before the investor call's 2025 adjusted profit forecast of $1.75.| Peter Cohan
Trump was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency and noted to again have bruised hands. What do these mean? How are these treated? Here's what you need to know.| Forbes
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at how Daniel Nadler became a billionaire building a ChatGPT for doctors, big news from two Chinese biotech companies, what doctors think about AI and more.| Forbes
Nik Storonsky built a $7.9 billion fortune cofounding digital bank Revolut. Now he’s building a network of high-end rental properties in Spain, Brazil and the Dominican Republic.| Iain Martin
Plus: MIT student restores old paintings with AI.| Rashi Shrivastava
Plus: Reddit sues Anthropic.| Rashi Shrivastava
The startup hopes to take on AI rivals Harvey and incumbents Thomson Reuters as it gains traction among law firms.| Forbes
The company, which builds customer service AI agents, is raising fresh funding as it continues to help businesses shave millions in labor costs.| Forbes
Can democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani be an effective New York City mayor and keep his progressive policy ideas?| Forbes
Forbes has learned the deal includes a provision to establish a 5-year commercial agreement in the hundreds of millions annually.| Forbes
Motorcycle giant Kawasaki has built a 4-legged robot that no-one thought possible. It's kind of like horse meets motorcycle but powered by hydrogen.| Peter Lyon
Dalton Caldwell and Paul Buchheit, both long-tentured at the firm, are branching out from the storied tech incubator.| Richard Nieva
Are you sabotaging your job search? Here are some cover letter mistakes that hiring managers say will ruin your chances in the screening process.| Forbes
The White House wants to slash the $85 million budget to $0 for the inspector general’s office that focuses on investigating fraud in foreign aid.| Thomas Fox-Brewster
Master these 10 professional skills—beyond tech—to thrive in the AI-driven workplace and future-proof your career.| Forbes
Ready to advance your career? Discover some key ways to win over your boss in meetings and maximize your presence at work.| Forbes
Corellium founder and CEO Chris Wade is selling his startup to Cellebrite, law enforcement’s favorite cellphone forensics business.| Thomas Fox-Brewster
Amid fears it’s created a mass surveillance system, Flock is turning its license plate readers into fully-fledged surveillance cameras, taking on what it claims is a monopoly on police tech by Axon.| Thomas Fox-Brewster
Insider spies that steal data are posing an ever-larger threat to businesses. This startup believes AI can root them out.| Thomas Fox-Brewster
In addition to raising the endowment tax rate for the richest schools to as much as 21%, the bill hits schools with heavy foreign student enrollment.| Forbes
Drew Crecente’s daughter was brutally murdered 18 years ago. Someone made a chatbot on unicorn startup Character AI’s platform using her name and yearbook photo.| Forbes
Saudi Arabia launched a new state-backed AI company ahead of President Donald’s Trump state visit to the Kingdom.| Forbes
The widely viewed AI-generated videos, which offer free upgrades to premium services from Spotify and Microsoft, are being used to install malicious code that can spy on users’ PCs.| Forbes
Think more like a startup and learn how to cultivate initiative, adaptability and success for yourself with any organization.| Forbes
Accel is leading a $275 million funding round into Chaos Industries, a defense tech company that sells a suite of communications and radar technologies.| Forbes
Axon, a major tech provider to border and immigration cops, is warning it may have to increase prices as a result of Trump’s China tariffs. It isn’t the only ICE contractor worried about the trade war.| Forbes
If you’re putting pictures of your children on social media, there’s an increasing risk AI will be used to turn them into sexual abuse material.| Forbes
Cyberhaven, which just raised $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, offers AI tools designed to prevent employees from putting proprietary information into tools like ChatGPT.| Forbes
After Google laid off part of the team responsible for ensuring government requests for users’ private information are legal, it turned to AI to pick up the slack. Employees tell Forbes it hasn’t.| Forbes
In a new executive order, Trump paves the way for an overhaul of the network of agencies that assure quality in higher education.| Forbes
Trump’s new policies will hit college budgets hard. Top schools could get away with increasing their prices, but everyone else will have to cut their way to solvency.| Forbes
Ton-That had stepped down as CEO and became president in December due to the company’s struggles to secure major federal government contracts and raise funding.| Forbes
While the semiconductor brains of artificial intelligence are so far exempt from tariffs, the materials used to build the massive sites where they are installed and operated are not. That’s a problem.| Forbes
As hiring slows and employers grow pickier, job seekers must adapt to stand out. Here’s a roadmap to enhance your odds in this challenging landscape.| Forbes
Thinking about how to move out of the United States? You’re not alone: From visas to finding a new home, here’s what you need to know about how to start a new life abroad.| Forbes
Fearing enormous fines, Google and Apple held off from reinstating TikTok to their app stores until the DOJ sent them a second version of President Trump’s “written guidance.”| Forbes
Online two-year college Campus offers its students a top flight associate degree in business for a community college price.| Forbes
Staffers at the government arm responsible for maintaining core tech systems were concerned that such broad access for the former Tesla engineer now in charge would violate security measures.| Forbes
The European Union is writing a $56 million check for researchers to build a large language model to rival its American and Chinese competitors.| Forbes
The $97.4 billion bid muddles up Sam Altman’s quest to convert the ChatGPT-maker into a for-profit company.| Forbes
The Japanese tech conglomerate has assets, like a majority stake in British chip company Arm, but hasn’t detailed how it will pony up.| Forbes
Snap is poised to capitalize, while other popular Chinese apps like RedNote may be newly scrutinized.| Forbes
Ever wondered what’s causing a buzz in the digital health world? Toropoenp is revolutionizing how people approach their wellness journey through innovative AI-powered solutions. This groundbreaking technology combines traditional health monitoring with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to deliver personalized health insights like never before. The rise of toropoenp hasn’t just caught the attention of tech enthusiasts […]| www.socialbizmagazine.com
If you're 50 or 60 and healthy, you are more than likely going to live to be 90 or 100. How will you prepare? What should organizations do?| Forbes
A business credit card for startups sounded like a $12 billion idea a few years ago. Now San Francisco’s Brex is struggling to find a viable market.| Forbes
What is UX design? Discover all you need to know about user experience design in 2024 our complete guide to UX design.| CareerFoundry
Airtable’s new Cobuilder product generates apps just from a simple prompt — and has the $11.7 billion-valued startup back eyeing an IPO after painful job cuts.| Forbes
Austin-based Saronic launched in 2022 and is raising $175 million to help it build a fleet of military drone boats.| Forbes
JC Btaiche, the 24-year-old CEO of Fuse, has raised $20 million and signed on Iran’s former top nuclear scientist and former Pentagon officials to solve fusion.| Forbes
Skild AI has raised $300 million to continue building its plug-and-play robotic intelligence with the hope of enabling companies to integrate it into robots of all kinds.| Forbes
Five investors, and likely multiple partners, are leaving Cohen’s fund as it shifts focus from fintech, the category where it had made more than half its 100-plus investments.| Forbes
CX2, which is still in stealth, is being led by serial entrepreneur Nathan Mintz, who co-founded the counter-drone unicorn Epirus.| Forbes
The Munich-based company Helsing is raising at least $400 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst, sources tell Forbes.| Forbes
Ethan Thornton’s vision for Mach Industries wooed investors, but he has been hamstrung by technical challenges, safety hazards and a cavalier approach to leadership.| Forbes
LiveKit provides the network infrastructure that startups like OpenAI and Character AI use to ensure AI models can interact with people across audio and visual formats.| Forbes
Before she was Connecticut’s First Lady, Midas lister Annie Lamont was making early bets on healthtech — and reaping big returns. Four decades into investing, she’s reinventing herself again for the AI era.| Forbes
Plus: OpenAI is already training its next model.| Forbes
Plus AI-generated kids draw predators on TikTok and Instagram.| Forbes
Federal bank regulators are not coming to rescue the thousands of fintech customers who have lost access to their money.| Forbes
Valued at $26 billion, Canva unveiled big business-friendly software updates to its 185 million monthly users as CEO Melanie Perkins heralded “the year of work.”| Forbes
Armada raised $55 million, reaching a valuation close to $250 million, in one year under CEO Dan Wright. The startup has a "close collaboration" with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.| Forbes
The funding round, which sources say will be led by existing investors Lightspeed and GIC, is expected to maintain the same valuation that Grafana secured two years ago.| Forbes
The startup has raised $30 million, quadrupling its valuation to $200 million, signaling investors’ interest in enterprise AI tools that aren’t generative in nature.| Forbes
The Chinese e-commerce sites ship the equivalent of 88 Boeing 777 freighters of cargo worldwide every day.| Forbes
Missing anti-harassment clauses, bungled PTO guidelines and botched bereavement leave terms: ChatGPT-generated company policies are exposing employers to a buffet of legal and financial risks.| Forbes
Italy-based surveillance company Leonardo says its tool creates a fingerprint of drivers and passengers by scanning for anything that emits a signal from their car, from smartphones to library books.| Forbes
Vogt, who resigned from the self-driving car company amid a crisis just six months ago, landed a $550 million valuation for a new company which wants to sell robots for personal uses like cleaning your house.| Forbes
Called Inflection-2, the model performed better than Google’s PaLM Large 2 model previously announced in May on a number of standard benchmarks, Inflection said, while...| Forbes
$50 billion retail behemoth Simon Property has granted police access to its AI car surveillance feeds via startup Flock Safety, monitoring vehicles visiting its malls, public records requests reveal.| Forbes
The Ivy League is losing its standing as America’s producer of great talent. Here are the schools producing the hard-working high achievers that employers crave.| Forbes
American users also won’t get search results for Xi Jinping, Uyghur, CCP, Palestine and Israel, among many other terms.| Forbes
The leaders of the AI red teams at Microsoft, Google, Nvidia and Meta say they are tasked with looking for vulnerabilities in their AI systems so they can be fixed.| Forbes
A cyber startup founded by an ex-Defense Department hacker announces a $20 million raise and a presidential candidate as a customer.| Forbes
Axon says its AI will help get more police out of the office and on the streets. Critics worry it’ll make cops lazy and potentially introduce errors into crucial evidence.| Forbes
Middle Eastern state media accounts get 100s of millions of views on TikTok and Meta, shaping international news. The platforms promised to label them — but haven’t.| Forbes
The only startups to benefit from Gaia’s pitch were members of the program’s first cohort, who received the Saudi government grants and just a fraction of the investme...| Forbes
The company removed more than 100 YouTube videos after Forbes found the platform was promoting AI nudifiers used by school bullies and a convicted pedophile.| Forbes
Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, is backed by tech VIPs like Jeff Bezos, and counts billionaires like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang among its frequent users.| Forbes
Notion cofounder Ivan Zhao captivated Silicon Valley investors and everyday consumers alike with a sleek productivity app that went so viral its servers crashed. Now, the profitable startup’s CEO sees a rare opening to break Microsoft and Google’s dominance in the workplace by going early and aggressive on AI.| Forbes
The list is compiled in collaboration with data partners Sequoia and Meritech Capital.| Forbes
As Gauth AI surges in popularity, its parent company ByteDance is fighting to keep TikTok available in the U.S.| Forbes
Cyberattacks target AI compute power to mine cryptocurrency using a vulnerability in popular open source software called Ray, according to researchers at Oligo Security.| Forbes
A Moscow legal battle strongly indicates that phone forensics tools used by both the FBI and FSB are exploiting security loopholes in Apple’s operating system.| Forbes
Mostaque has told a number of people close to him that he plans to step down as chief executive of the once buzzy generative AI startup known for Stable Diffusion.| Forbes
In one of the first criminal cases of its kind, prosecutors have charged a Wisconsin man after he allegedly showed AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery to a child.| Forbes