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Vibe-coding startup Lovable raises $330M at a $6.6B valuation: Lovable has seen its valuation more than triple just five months after the company's last funding round in July. Read More

Trump Media is merging with fusion power company TAE Technologies in $6B+ deal: The merger would broaden Trump Media's holdings into the nascent fusion power space while data centers clamor for more electricity amid the ongoing AI boom. Read More

Peripheral Labs taps into self-driving car sensors to bring sports fans right into the game: The startup has raised a $3.6 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures. Read More

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Meta is pausing its dream of sharing Quest's Horizon OS with third-party headset makers: The company said that it would revisit opportunities for third-party partnerships in the future. Read More

Cisco says Chinese hackers are exploiting its customers with a new zero-day: Cisco said it discovered a Chinese hacking campaign targeting its customers by exploiting a zero-day in some of the company's most popular products. Read More

YouTube to pull music data from Billboard's charts because it doesn't like its ranking formula: YouTube takes its ball and goes home by pulling Billboard's access to its music data. Read More

Apple opens up its App Store to competition in Japan: Epic Games CEO says Fortnite won't return to Japan, though, because the new rules still require high fees. Read More

Luma releases a new AI model that lets users generate a video from a start and end frame: Luma AI's new model is available through the company's Dream Machine platform. Read More

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Instacart's AI-driven pricing tool attracted attention -- now the FTC has questions: In an economy where everyone's feeling squeezed, AI-driven price testing of kitchen essentials was bound to attract attention. Read More