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Over three and a half years after family locator app Life360 acquired lost item tracker Tile for $205 million, the two services are finally fully integrated. On Wednesday, Life360 announced that the item-finding capabilities of Tile, a competitor to Apple’s AirTag and other Bluetooth-based trackers, are now available from inside its main app. The update means users will now be able to see where family members are in real time, as well as their valuables, like their wallet, keys, bags, and other items. The change will also help to centralize the separate user bases for the two apps by pushing…

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is seen through glass during an event on the sidelines of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, Feb. 11, 2025.Aurelien Morissard | Via ReutersElon Musk tried to derail a major artificial intelligence infrastructure deal in the Middle East after learning that his startup, xAI, would be excluded from the initiative, CNBC has confirmed.Earlier this month, OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia, Cisco and Emirati firm G42 announced plans to build a sweeping Stargate AI campus in the United Arab Emirates. Musk was frustrated that OpenAI, led by personal rival Sam Altman, was tapped for the deal, and he intervened in an effort…

“Startup culture may be great for putting out a new app or building a successful company, but not for distributing tens of millions of people’s benefits. Real people with real interests are at stake,” says Daniel Weiner, director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Elections and Government Program. In other words, when it comes to the general public, “move fast and break things” isn’t exactly popular. But that Silicon Valley culture continues to seep into policy as tech billionaires expand their influence in Washington, making these tensions harder to ignore. Elon Musk spent nearly $300 million to elect Donald Trump,…

Tesla’s Cybertruck sales dropped significantly in recent quarters, leading to a rapid buildup of unsold inventory. And it looks like the company is resorting to unconventional storage sites for the excess vehicles. One such location, per Crains Detroit Business, is a Detroit shopping center that is now in violation of city code for storing dozens of Cybertrucks and other unsold Teslas in its parking lot.  No doubt the parking lot looks like a dystopian graveyard with rows upon rows of shiny silver Cybertrucks taking up space where shoppers once came to visit the now-closed Bed Bath & Beyond and Torrid.…

Omada Health smart devices in use.Courtesy: Omada HealthOmada Health plans to raise up to $158 million in its up coming IPO, attaining a market cap of about $1.1 billion at the top end of its expected range, according to a filing on Thursday. The virtual chronic care company filed its prospectus earlier this month, and has just updated the filing with an expected pricing range of $18 to $20 per share. Omada said it plans to sell 7.9 million shares in the offering.The size of the offering and share price could change, and the market cap could be higher on…

AMD has acquired Enosemi, a startup designing custom materials to support silicon photonics product development. The terms of the deal, announced Wednesday, weren’t disclosed. Silicon photonics uses light — photons — to transmit data, offering a faster and more efficient alternative to traditional electrical communication. AMD and other chipmakers have shown an increasing interest in the tech. Late last year, AMD reportedly teamed up with several Taiwan startups for a silicon photonics R&D collaboration. AMD says that its acquisition of Enosemi will “accelerate [its] co-packaged optics innovation for AI systems.” “As AI models grow larger and more complex, the need for…

Google is celebrating 10 years of Google Photos with the launch of a redesigned editor. The redesign adds new AI features — Reimagine and Auto Frame — which were previously only available on Pixel devices, bringing the tools into the hands of more users. The Reimagine feature uses generative AI to transform objects and backgrounds in photos with text prompts. For example, you could ask to replace a gloomy sky in one of your photos with “clear blue skies.” The Auto Frame feature suggests different ways to frame a photo, whether it’s by cropping, widening, or using generative AI to…

New calls to revive a cancelled pipeline project pit Republican President Donald Trump against Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul , with Coterra Energy caught in the middle. Conversations about the natural gas Constitution Pipeline resurfaced last week after Trump lifted a stop-work order on the Empire Wind 1 project as part of what appeared to be a compromise with New York. The pipeline met opposition during Trump’s first term and was shelved roughly five years ago. One of the original sponsors of the pipeline was Cabot Oil & Gas, which merged with Cimarex Energy in 2021 to form Coterra,…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City, U.S., February 26, 2025. Brendan Mcdermid | ReutersThe New York Times on Thursday struck a deal with Amazon allowing it to use the storied news organization’s content across its artificial intelligence platforms.The multi-year deal “will bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,” the Times said in a release. The agreement also includes content from the newspaper’s other properties like NYT Cooking and The Athletic.”This will include real-time display of summaries and short excerpts of Times content within Amazon products and services, such…

Spotify on Wednesday announced a handful of new features designed to give podcasts a more prominent position in its app as it battles with Apple and YouTube to become users’ preferred podcast streaming destination. The company says it will begin recommending podcasts on its Home page and provide a Following feed for staying up-to-date with the latest episodes of your favorite shows. Soon, Spotify will also roll out new tools for podcast creators to recommend content and better engage with their fans in comments. The changes, while relatively minor, are a part of Spotify’s growing efforts to compete with Apple’s…