Nothing opens its first retail store in India |

Nothing, the hardware company backed by Tiger Global, is opening its first retail store in India, its biggest market. The store is located in Bengaluru,…

Airbnb plans to bake in AI features for search, discovery and support |

Airbnb has taken its time to launch AI features within the app, but CEO Brian Chesky on Friday said the company is now planning to…

Samsung to hold its Galaxy S26 event on February 25 |

11:06 PM PST · February 10, 2026 Samsung sent out invites Tuesday to its next Galaxy Unpacked event, scheduled for February 25 in San Francisco,…

Former Tesla product manager wants to make luxury goods impossible to fake, starting with a chip |

The fake goods crisis cuts two ways. Luxury brands lose more than $30 billion a year to counterfeits, while buyers in the booming $210 billion…

ElevenLabs raises $500M from Sequoia at an $11 billion valuation |

7:33 AM PST · February 4, 2026 Voice AI company ElevenLabs said today it raised $500 million in a new funding round led by Sequoia…

WhatsApp will now charge AI chatbots to operate in Italy |

11:18 AM PST · January 28, 2026 Meta announced Wednesday that it will charge developers for running chatbots on WhatsApp in regions where regulators are…

Chrome takes on AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration, agentic features for autonomous tasks |

Last year, a swarm of AI browsers from companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, Opera, and The Browser Company launched with the aim to replace Chrome with…

Former Googlers seek to captivate kids with an AI-powered learning app |

Big Tech companies and upcoming startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. A lot of those experiences are limited…

Meta pauses teen access to AI characters ahead of new version |

Meta today said that it is pausing teens’ access to its AI characters globally across all its apps. The company mentioned that it is not…

Eat App wants a bite of India’s restaurant reservation business with an acquisition and Swiggy partnership |

Dubai-based restaurant reservation startup Eat App aims to make India a focal point of its business with new fundraising, an acquisition, and partnering with Swiggy…