Battery manufacturer Powin files for bankruptcy months after landing $200M... Battery manufacturer Powin filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday. The Oregon-based company said it has more than $300 million in debt. The Chapter...
OpenAI and Barbie-maker Mattel team up to bring generative AI... Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toy-making and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging. This partnership...
Chime almost died in 2016, turned down by 100 VCs... One of the year’s most anticipated IPOs took place on Thursday when neobank Chime raised $864 million in its IPO, pricing its...
Snapchat adds new features for creators, including an easier way... As Snapchat continues to take on Instagram and TikTok, the company announced on Thursday that it’s introducing a suite of new tools...
Hotel management platform Canary nabs $80M Series D from BPC,... Canary, the hotel guest management platform, announced Thursday the raise of an $80 million Series D in a round led by Brighton...
Google Cloud outage brings down a lot of the internet Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps...
Tesla sues former Optimus engineer over alleged trade secret theft Tesla sued a former engineer for allegedly stealing trade secrets from its humanoid robotics program, Optimus, and using them to launch a...
After Trump’s cuts to federal arts funding, Indian cultural programming... (RNS) — Last November, after five years of unsuccessful applications, Los Angeles resident Mona Kotecha and her husband, Rupesh, got a call...
Bluesky backlash misses the point Bluesky is missing an opportunity to explain to people that its network is more than just its own Bluesky social app. In...
In Texas’ pushback against a Muslim planned community, a retread... (RNS) — In their plans to create a neighborhood of 1,000 homes, a K-12 faith-based school, apartments, shops, a community college and...