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Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’

Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’: “We’re on the cusp of a completely new way of shopping,” Gates told TechCrunch. Read More

China's Moonshot releases a new open-source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent: The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens. Read More

'Among the worst we've seen': report slams xAI's Grok over child safety failures: “We assess a lot of AI chatbots at Common Sense Media, and they all have risks, but Grok is among the worst we’ve seen,” Robbie Torney of Common Sense Media said. Read More

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Samsung's TriFold phone will cost $2,899 in the US 

Samsung's TriFold phone will cost $2,899 in the US : The phone's display unfolds twice to reveal a 10-inch display, which is the largest screen ever on a Galaxy phone. Read More

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