Luminar sale approved despite last-minute mystery bid |

Moments before a bankruptcy judge was expected to approve the sale of Luminar’s lidar business, an unidentified party submitted an offer that apparently blew away…

Jennifer Garner's Once Upon a Farm resumes IPO plans |

In Brief Posted: 11:09 AM PST · January 28, 2026 Organic food company Once Upon a Farm, known for its baby food and kids’ snacks,…

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…

Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta's Llama |

Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a…

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…

Apple tells Patreon to move creators to in-app purchase for subscriptions by November |

9:45 AM PST · January 28, 2026 Creator platformPatreon is taking issue with Apple’s new mandate that forces all creators to move to a subscription…

SEC drops lawsuit against Winklevoss twins’ Gemini crypto exchange |

In Brief Posted: 10:06 AM PST · January 24, 2026 The Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped its lawsuit against Gemini, the crypto exchange founded…

A new test for AI labs: Are you even trying to make money? |

We’rein a unique moment for AI companies building their own foundation model. First, there is a whole generation of industry veterans who made their name…

Legal AI giant Harvey acquires Hexus as competition heats up in legal tech |

9:27 PM PST · January 23, 2026 Harvey, the high-flying legal AI startup, has acquired Hexus — a two-year-old startup that builds tools for creating…

Apple iPhone just had its best year in India as the smartphone market stays broadly flat |

Apple’s iPhone is gaining ground fast in India, shipping about 14 million units in 2025, based on market data shared exclusively with TechCrunch. Yet the…