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Fairphone updates its repairable over-the-ear headphones with new drivers.

Meta's Facebook redesign elevates Marketplace, refreshes profiles, and aims to win back Gen Z users.

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

Google is working on various types of AI-powered glasses — one model is designed for screen-free assistance, using built-in speakers, microphones, and cameras to allow the user to communicate with Gemini and take photos. The other model has an in-lens display — which is only visible to the person wearing the glasses — that can show turn-by-turn directions or closed captioning.

The European Commission is investigating Google over its AI summaries.

The latest is Microsoft's largest investment in Asia.

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.

India has given OpenAI, Google, and other AI firms 30 days to respond to its proposed royalty system for training on copyrighted content.

The two companies are launching the Accenture Anthropic Business Group to bring Anthropic's AI to Accenture's employees.

Tiger's last fund did well with investmetments in OpenAI, Waymo and Databricks. But it warns investors that AI valuations are already 'elevated.'

More than 230 organizations signed a public letter urging members of Congress to take action.

Anthropic launches Claude Code in Slack, letting developers delegate coding tasks from chat threads. It's part of a shift toward AI-embedded collaboration that could reshape software workflows.

Google details how it is enacting security guardrails before rolling out agentic capabilities on Chrome.

Shoppers will be able to go from recipe planning to checkout within the ChatGPT window.

Shared Feeds will surface new content tailored to both users' tastes, such as sports or winter activities, and their favorite creators.

Petco said the exposure was due to an error in an application and that it is notifying victims whose data was affected.

Quilt has sold nearly 1,000 units in the U.S. and Canada, and the new funding should help expand sales operations to more states and provinces.

“I will be doing a ONE RULE Executive Order this week,” Trump posted on social media. “You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something.”

Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile, $108.4 billion bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, days after Warner Bros. agreed to be acquired by Netflix for $82.7 billion.

IBM is buying data infrastructure company Confluent for $11 billion in cash in a bid to bolster its data and automation products as ever more companies move their tech operations to the cloud and deploy AI technology.