Grubhub confirms data breach affecting customers and drivers

U.S. food delivery giant Grubhub says hackers accessed the personal details of customers and drivers after breaching its internal systems.  Grubhub is a popular food-ordering and delivery platform with more than 375,000 merchants and 200,000 delivery providers using its platform in more than

OpenAI partners with Korea’s Kakao after inking SoftBank Japanese JV

On the heels of Chinese AI firm DeepSeek making a huge splash in OpenAI’s American backyard, OpenAI is expanding in Asia, with major commercial deals that will also help it train its AI on more Asian-language content and user behavior — a gateway to doing more business in these markets

Waabi and Volvo team up to build self-driving trucks at scale

Self-driving truck startup Waabi is partnering with Volvo Autonomous Solutions to jointly develop and deploy autonomous trucks, an important milestone as it gets closer to a commercial launch.  The tie-up also marks Volvo's second partnership to co-develop self-driving big rigs with a sta

SoftBank-backed billionaire to invest $230M in Indian AI startup Krutrim

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal is investing $230 million into an AI startup he founded as the country pushes to establish itself in a field dominated by U.S. and Chinese firms. Aggarwal is financing the investment in Krutrim — which has been building large language models (LLMs) for Indian lan

Opera launches a mindfulness-focused browser with break reminders and soundscapes

Norway-based browser maker Opera on Tuesday launched a new browser called “Opera Air,” which focuses on mental well-being and mindfulness with features like break reminders, breathing exercises, soundscapes, and binaural beats for better focus. The company said that people use browsers

AI agents for e-commerce startup, founded by Google and DeepMind alums, raises $10M seed

AI is changing how we shop online, making our experiences more personalized. Smart assistants recommend products, negotiate deals, and even handle customer service. Big retailers and smaller businesses are using AI to improve search, supply chains, and checkout.  If AI companies (and their in

China hits back at Trump tariffs with Google antitrust investigation

China said Tuesday it has launched an antitrust investigation into Google, part of a swift retaliation after the U.S. president Donald Trump imposed a 10% tariff on Chinese goods. The probe by China’s State Administration for Market Regulation will examine alleged monopolistic practices by t

Adam Candeub, a vocal critic of Big Tech, will reportedly join the FCC

Adam Candeub, a known critic of Big Tech, looks poised to join the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Candeub will be general counsel of the FCC, reports Semafor, which cites direct confirmation from FCC chairman Brendan Carr. technewss has reached out to the FCC for more information.

Ontario cancels, then restores, $68 million Starlink contract after protesting US tariffs

On Monday, Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, one of Canada's most populous provinces, announced on X that the province’s government would be “ripping up” its $68 million ($100 million CAD) contract with Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service. The news came soon after Pre

Stripe brings aboard new lead for ‘startup and VC partnerships’

Asya Bradley, a former fintech founder and investor, has joined payments giant Stripe as its new Startup & Venture Capital Partnerships lead. Bradley announced the news on February 2 in a post on LinkedIn, though her bio shows that she joined Stripe back in November. Neither S

Naver-backed Cinamon wants to make 3D video animation easier using AI

It’s never been easier to create and publish art than it is now, and if you believe the companies building tech around AI, the production process is going to get even more efficient. That’s especially the case with video production, with companies of all sizes using large language model

Meta says it may stop development of AI systems it deems too risky

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to make artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which is roughly defined as AI that can accomplish any task a human can — openly available one day. But in a new policy document, Meta suggests that there are certain scenarios in which it may not relea

DeepSeek: The countries and agencies that have banned the AI company’s tech

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company, is raising the ire of regulators around the world. DeepSeek’s viral AI models and chatbot apps have been banned by a growing number of countries and government bodies, which have expressed concerns over DeepSeek’s ethics, privacy, and security practices

Journalist targeted on WhatsApp by Paragon spyware: ‘I feel violated’

On Friday, at 2:48 p.m., Francesco Cancellato received an ominous notification on his cell phone while he was at home near Milan.   “This is a message from WhatsApp,” read the message in Italian, which was obtained by technewss. “In December, WhatsApp interrupted the activities of a spywa