Pulley, a Carta rival, is shutting down |

In Brief Posted: 2:23 PM PDT · September 16, 2026 Cap table management platform Pulley announced this week on its website that it was shutting…

Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows 'Tweet' for now |

A federal court in Delaware has ruled on a trademark fight between Elon Musk’s X and a startup trying to launch a rival social network.…

India’s Unacademy sells to rival upGrad for $206M, about 94% less than its peak valuation |

Unacademy, once one of India’s most valuable edtech startups, has been acquired by rival upGrad at a valuation of just over $200 million, about 94%…

OpenAI Staffers Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Take on Their Boss

A group of rank-and-file OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a super PAC pushing for stricter regulations on frontier AI labs. Guardrails Alliance,…

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta were instructed to pose as minors online and probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving…

After Europe, WhatsApp will let rival AI companies offer chatbots in Brazil |

5:20 AM PST · March 6, 2026 Meta is now allowing rival AI companies to provide their chatbots on WhatsApp to Brazilian users for a…

Anthropic-funded group backs candidate attacked by rival AI super PAC |

In Brief Posted: 12:52 PM PST · February 20, 2026 Late last year, New York Assembly member Alex Bores became the target of a campaign…

Indian SpaceX rival EtherealX hits 5x valuation as it readies engine tests |

Ethereal Exploration Guild, an Indian space tech better known as EtherealX, has climbed 5.5x in valuation to $80.5 million after its latest funding round. The…

Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public |

The reboot of the early internet online communityDigg, a one-time rival to Redditis moving forward. The company, which is today back under the ownership of…

Italy tells Meta to suspend its policy that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp |

6:40 AM PST · December 24, 2025 Italy has ordered Meta to suspend its policy that bans companies from using WhatsApp’s business tools to offer…