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Xflow raises $16.6m Series A to scale India's cross-border payments infrastructure

The B2B payments platform counts Stripe and PayPal Ventures among its backers as it targets expansion into new geographies following tenfold growth in 2025

Klaviyo partners with Google to bring real-time customer data to advertising and messaging

The marketing automation company will connect its customer data platform with Google's search, advertising and messaging tools to personalise brand interactions

OpenAI appoints Arvind KC as chief people officer to lead hiring and workforce strategy

The artificial intelligence company brings in a senior technology executive to oversee people operations as it continues to grow

YouTube summit brings together independent journalists to share platform growth strategies

Viewers watched more than 15 billion hours of news on the platform in the first half of 2025, as YouTube courts independent media creators

Canva embeds designs in ClassDojo to cut tool-switching for teachers

The creative software platform partners with the classroom communication app to streamline school-to-home messaging

PayPal tops a global AI talent ranking for payments and says the lead is already showing up in fraud prevention and a...

The Evident AI Index evaluates AI maturity across millions of public data points. PayPal took first in Talent and second in Innovation across the entire payments industry

Apple to start making Mac mini in the United States as demand for personal AI agents continues to soar

Apple will start Mac mini production in Houston later this year, as well as expand artificial intelligence server assembly and open a new training center.

DeepMind's new AI producer has already been used by Lecrae, The Chainsmokers and Wyclef Jean

ProducerAI is moving into Google Labs to help creators build songs using Google DeepMind models.

Kraken says its crypto-native 'perpetual futures' present traditional markets rebuilt for the "always-on world"

Kraken launches tokenized equity perpetual futures that let eligible non-U.S. traders access 24/7 leveraged exposure.

VAR is getting an AI assist as Premier League officials team up with tech firm

Personar's TrackSwift platform supplies real-time match-official audio feeds to PGMO for live and post-match review.

Meta commits to up to 6GW of AMD chips in a multi-year deal that sent AMD shares up 9%

The agreement spans silicon, systems and software across multiple GPU generations and is the clearest sign yet that Nvidia's grip on AI infrastructure spending has a serious challenger

For All Mankind returns for a fifth season with a fractured Mars colony and a decade-long time jump

The alt-history drama moves into the 2010s with Happy Valley now a colony of thousands, and the tension between Mars residents and an Earth demanding control as the new engine of the story

Yahoo is turning a historic Austin music venue into a festival-sized advertisement for its new AI search product

The company is rebranding the Scoot Inn as Yahoo Scout Inn for SXSW, betting that line-dancing, a Jessie Murph headline set and branded bull-roping can reintroduce a three-decade-old internet company to a crowd that has largely moved on

Disney+ and ESPN expand Banana Ball coverage

The pair will stream a 25-game Banana Ball package, with select games airing on ESPN networks and ABC.

Spotify launches 'Eternal Playlist' and bluetooth urn

Spotify and Liquid Death have released a limited-quantity wireless urn that plays music and offers a playlist generator for U.S. users.

Yahoo Finance teams up with Coinbase as crypto makes more inroads into finance mainstream

Yahoo Finance will link thousands of crypto tickers to Coinbase for direct trading and offer all users one free month of Coinbase One Basic.

Canva's latest acquistion expands its professional design stack

Canva is adding Cavalry to integrate professional motion design into its connected creative ecosystem.

Uber acquires SpotHero, to add parking reservation to the app

Uber will acquire SpotHero to add parking reservations to its app, which will sound like a godsend to many.

Hims & Hers revenue grew to $2.35 billion in 2025, but subs were fewer than the market hoped for

Subscribers - who repeat orders for weight loss and/or ED treatments (among others) on a recurring schedule - grew by 13%, to exceed 2.5 million.

Cancer diagnostics firm Epredia to distribute Mindpeak's AI image tech across EU

Epredia will add Mindpeak’s artificial intelligence image‑recognition software to its digital pathology offerings for customers in the European Union.