Marissa Mayer’s new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerruner’s Kirsten Green
Mayer launched Dazzle after shuttering her photo and contact management startup Sunshine.
Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ now works with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp
The new integrations join other services like Yelp, Uber, OpenTable and others.
Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech
Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image.
Inside Uzbekistan’s nationwide license plate surveillance system
The Uzbek government’s national license plate scanning system was discovered exposed to the internet for anyone to access without a password.
Pirate group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify
Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.
The tooth fairy just got reimagined for the tech-savvy generation
Move over, Santa. Now there’s another magical character for kids to track: the Tooth Fairy. After making a personalized Tooth Fairy video for his nephew, Oliver Finel noticed a gap. While there are plenty of Santa
OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks
OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an “LLM-based automated attacker.”
Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy grid bottlenecks
Alphabet is set to pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for the data center and clean energy developer.
Trump admin halts 6 GW of offshore wind leases again
The move is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to delay the construction of 6 gigawatts of offshore wind near a hotspot of data center development.
Paramount renews bid for Warner Bros, ensuring $40B Larry Ellison backing
It’s the latest attempt by one major Hollywood superpower to acquire another.