As AI-powered search tools reshape how businesses are discovered online, India-founded startup Gushwork is helping companies capture customers from platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity — with early traction that is beginning to draw investor support. The two-year-old startup said Thursday it had raised $9 million in a seed…
Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders
Anthropic on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Vercept, an AI startup with deep roots to some of the biggest names in Seattle’s tech scene. The acquisition marks the latest after Anthropic acquired coding agent engine Bun in December to help scale Claude Code. Vercept had created tools for more…
Google TV’s newest app puts doomscrolling in your living room
Last December, Meta did something I never thought would happen and brought Instagram to Fire TVs, so you can now doomscroll reels on the big screen. Now, two months later, Meta is bringing the Instagram for TV app to another major platform: Google TV. This news comes directly from Instagram…
Welcome to the post-hype crypto market
Crypto is creeping back into the startup conversation, but at ETHDenver last week, the buzz was as much about Washington as it was about tokens. Policy shifts are rippling through the market as Tether and stablecoins face scrutiny, players like Stripe re-enter the conversation, and startups either find traction or flame out. The hype cycle is over, or at…
How to read The Stormlight Archive in order before the TV adaptation
It’s official — as of late January 2026, Apple TV+ closed on the rights to Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere universe. If you know anything about Sanderson, you know that the universe consists of 20-plus works (novels, novellas, and shorter fiction) — which is a massive acquisition when you consider Sanderson’s world-building,…
The White House wants AI companies to cover rate hikes. Most have already said they would.
The proliferation of AI data centers plugging into the national electrical grid has helped increase consumer electricity prices, driving up the average national electricity price by more than 6% in the last year. That’s not a good look for the incumbents ahead of this fall’s elections, and President Donald Trump…
This free upgrade makes the Fire TV app worth downloading
At CES 2026 in January, Amazon teased two big Fire TV updates: a complete redesign of the Fire TV interface and a long-overdue revamp of the free Fire TV mobile app for iOS and Android. Last week, the new user interface (UI) began rolling out in the US, bringing a…
US cybersecurity agency CISA reportedly in dire shape amid Trump cuts and layoffs
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA is reportedly in dire shape, according to bipartisan lawmakers and industry leaders who fear that the agency’s ability to perform its core mission has been diminished and left it unprepared for a cybersecurity crisis. News site Cyberscoop’s Tim Starks spoke with sources across Congress, the private…
5 Pixel settings that make this standard feature infinitely better
Pixel smartphones are renowned for their top-tier mobile camera performance, particularly when it comes to point-and-shoot capturing of still images. Google’s blend of intuitive software controls and computational photography has been a strong point since as far back as the Pixel 2 series in 2017, which is around the time…
Inside the story of the US defense contractor who leaked hacking tools to Russia
A veteran cybersecurity executive who prosecutors said “betrayed” the United States will spend at least the next seven years behind bars, after pleading guilty to stealing and selling hacking and surveillance tools to a Russian firm. Peter Williams, a former executive at U.S. defense contractor L3Harris, was sentenced on Tuesday…