TikTok joins Snap to settle social media addiction lawsuit

Jury selection begins Tuesday as this case moves closer to trial.

Airtable gets into the AI agent game with Superagent

SuperAgent is Airtable’s first standalone product in its 13-year history, and signals both the company’s ambitions and the reality of the current AI moment: every serious software player is racing to prove they can deliver on agents.

TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after TikTok U.S. deal finalized

Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on open protocols, has had a busy weekend.

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This founder cracked firefighting — now he’s creating an AI gold mine

The nozzle is just the beginning – what company founder Sunny Sethi calls “the muscle on the ground.”

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

Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap, who previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, tells TechCrunch that her San Francisco-based team has already joined Harvey, while the startup’s India-based engineers will come onboard once Ha…

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TikTok users freak out over app’s ‘immigration status’ collection — here’s what it means

TikTok users are freaking out over a mention of “immigration status” data collection, but lawyers explain the disclosure is related to state privacy laws.

The Rippling/Deel corporate spying scandal may have taken another wild turn

The Department of Justice may be conducting a criminal investigation. This is arguably the biggest drama between two HR startups ever.

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Palmer Luckey says the coolest thing about Anduril expanding to Long Beach is the fighter jets

Anduril on Thursday announced its plans to expand its Southern California presence with a major campus in Long Beach, the town where founder Palmer Luckey grew up.