Hinge CMO Jackie Jantos hopes to help make Gen Zers less lonely 

Dating apps have developed a bad reputation lately. People ghost others, which means they simply stop responding to someone they once shared frequent correspondence with. There appear to be slim pickings, despite living in big cities like New York. And did we mention a lot of these apps now cost mo

Meta buys a nuclear power plant (more or less)

Meta announced Tuesday morning that it was paying billions of dollars to keep an Illinois nuclear power plant running through 2047. The social media company will buy all the “clean energy attributes” of Constellation Energy's Clinton Clean Energy Center, a 1.1 gigawatt nuclear power plant i

TikTok rolls out AI-powered Smart Keyword Filters to limit content you don’t want to see

TikTok is rolling out AI-powered Smart Keyword Filters to allow people to limit content they don’t want to see on their For You page, the company announced on Tuesday. While TikTok already allows users to use keyword filters to restrict specific content from appearing in their feeds, the ne

DeepSeek may have used Google’s Gemini to train its latest model

Last week, Chinese lab DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model that performs well on a number of math and coding benchmarks. The company didn’t reveal the source of the data it used to train the model, but some AI researchers speculate that at least a portion came fr

Snap adds new tools for building Bitmoji games

Snap is launching new Lens Studio tools that AR creators and developers can use to build Bitmoji games, the company told technewss exclusively. The company is releasing a Bitmoji Suite as well as new assets for games. With Lens Studio 5.10, the new games assets offer developers new ways to build

Indian grocery startup KiranaPro was hacked and its servers deleted, CEO confirms

Indian grocery delivery startup KiranaPro has been hacked and all its data has been wiped, the company’s founder confirmed to technewss. The destroyed data included the company’s app code and its servers containing banks of sensitive customer information, including their names, mailin

AWS establishes new German corporate presence to advance European sovereign cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, is forming a new parent company and three subsidiaries in Germany as part of a sovereign cloud the company is launching in the European Union. AWS VP Kathrin Renz will serve as managing director of AWS’ German corporate pare

Wispr Flow releases iOS app in a bid to make dictation feel effortless

It feels like AI companies want us all to talk to their products out loud more often. Meta, Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, to name a few, have added functionality to let users talk with their AI bots as naturally as they would with another person, taking advantage of advances in speech-to-text techn

Health giant Kettering still facing disruption weeks after ransomware attack

Kettering Health, a network with dozens of medical and emergency centers in Ohio, is still working to recover and return to normal operations two weeks after a ransomware attack prompted “a system-wide technology outage.”  On Monday, Kettering Health said in an update that it had restored “

Adobe launches beta version of its Photoshop app on Android

Android users can now download Photoshop for mobile. Adobe announced on Tuesday that it’s releasing the beta version of its Android Photoshop app, four months after the company launched its iPhone app. The app offers a similar set of editing tools as the desktop version, including layering a

Speedata, a chip startup competing with Nvidia, raises a $44M Series B

Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads, has raised a $44 million Series B funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $114 million. The Series B round was led by its existing investors, incl

An early Joby Aviation backer might soon be its biggest distributor in Saudi Arabia

Joby Aviation has reached a tentative deal with investor and Saudi Arabian conglomerate Abdul Latif Jameel (ALJ) to distribute up to 200 electric aircraft valued at about $1 billion over the coming years.  If finalized, the partnership could provide Joby with a fast path to monetizing its ele

Indeed CEO Chris Hyams resigns, hands reins over to former chief Hisayuki Idekoba

Hiring platform Indeed’s CEO Chris Hyams (pictured above) said on Monday that he is stepping down from the role. The CEO of the company’s parent firm Recruit, Hisayuki Idekoba, will return to his post as CEO of Indeed after a six-year break. Hyams said he will serve as a board adviser

TikTok launches ‘TikTok for Artists,’ a new music insights platform

TikTok announced on Tuesday that it’s officially launching TikTok for Artists, a new music insights platform that is designed to help artists build their careers. The official launch comes two months after TikTok was spotted testing the platform in select countries. The tool is built to hel