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Discord has introduced enhancements to its Family Center, offering parents greater visibility into their teenagers’ usage, including spending habits, key interactions, and time allocation. This aims to enable parents to track potential overspending or excessive Discord usage by their teen. The communication platform initially launched Family Center in 2023, featuring an activity dashboard displaying the…

Blue Origin, the space venture of Jeff Bezos, is now prepared for a second launch attempt of its New Glenn super heavy-lift rocket. The company revealed Wednesday its launch target is as early as Sunday, November 9, from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The initial New Glenn flight happened in January and achieved…

During a Tuesday earnings call, Pinterest’s CEO, Bill Ready, emphasized the potential of open source AI models. He said they could help the company lower expenses as it broadens visual AI use cases. The image pinboarding website, frequently users’ initial step in shopping, utilizes AI to enhance features such as personalized recommendations, a multimodal search…

Observing the current landscape of AI deals, it appears AI firms and their backers are replicating the circle of life. Except, it’s a profit cycle designed to funnel money back into their own pockets. For example, SoftBank, investing heavily in OpenAI with tens of billions and committing even more to build AI infrastructure and data…

MoEngage, a customer engagement platform serving consumer brands in 75 countries, has announced it secured new funding led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, its existing investor, to boost global expansion and integrate more AI into its platform. In total, $100 million in shares were exchanged, approximately 60% primary and 40% secondary, as part of MoEngage’s Series…

President Trump declared on Truth Social, his social media site, this Tuesday that he is once again putting forward Shift4’s Jared Isaacman to head NASA, the country’s space organization, following a previous withdrawal of the nomination. This change of course follows weeks of online exchanges, with Elon Musk and others targeting Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy,…

Rivian has launched its second spinoff business this year: Mind Robotics, a new industrial AI and robotics company. According to the company’s third-quarter shareholder letter released Tuesday, the new venture will concentrate on employing “industrial AI to transform how physical world businesses function and utilize Rivian operations data as the basis for a robotics data…

Spotify reports that its video podcasts are gaining traction with users. The company’s third quarter earnings report revealed its video podcast offerings have grown to almost 500,000 shows, with over 390 million users having now streamed a video podcast on the service. This figure marks a 54% increase year-over-year, reflecting Spotify’s growing focus on this…

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, renowned solo VC investor Elad Gil commented that AI has proven to be one of the most unpredictable technological surges he has witnessed. Gil is listed on the capitalization table of almost every successful company in the last ten years, notably several of today’s prominent AI firms. Nevertheless, he believes that…

When sitting around swapping online dating stories, the discussion typically centers on the usual suspects: Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, Grindr, and sometimes more specialized apps like Lex. However, since Facebook Dating’s launch in 2019, it’s rare to hear success stories starting there — I personally know more individuals who connected in Facebook meme groups than via…