Aaru, a startup that provides near-instant customer research by using AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures, according to people familiar with the deal.The funding round included multiple valuation tiers. While some equity was acquired at a $1 billion valuation, other investors entered at a lower price, resulting in a blended valuation below $1 billion. Su...

The RB ranking of the Top 10 Most Desirable Luxury Brands in 2025 highlights which houses are truly winning on brand value, search demand, and momentum this year, blending hard data with cultural relevance instead of just heritage status alone.The chart shows how a mix of iconic mega-brands and fast-rising names are reshaping what “desirable” looks like in a post-pandemic, social-first luxury...

Tiiny AI Inc., a US deep-tech AI startup, today unveiled the world's smallest personal AI supercomputer, the Tiiny AI Pocket Lab, officially verified by Guinness World Records under the category "The Smallest MiniPC (100B LLM Locally)." The event marked the first global public unveiling of the Tiiny AI Pocket Lab. For the first time in AI supercomputing, a pocket-sized device is capable of runn...

Roughly 1 in 5 U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots, including about 3 in 10 who do so daily.Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ use of social media, the internet and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. The Center conducted an online survey of 1,458 U.S. teens from Sept. 25 to O...

Apple was granted a patent that could reshape how sound systems are integrated into devices with displays, such as iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and even wearables. The patent describes a novel audio transducer system designed to mitigate electromagnetic interference between speakers and display data lines. This innovation addresses a long-standing engineering challenge: how to embed powerful speak...

Limitless, the AI startup formerly known as Rewind, has been acquired by Meta, the company announced Friday on its website. The company, which made an AI-powered pendant to record your conversations, says it will no longer sell its hardware devices and will maintain support for its existing customers for a year.Customers will no longer have to pay a subscription fee and will be moved to the Unl...

Recently we laid out the current autonomous ride-share landscape, which is mostly a battle between Google’s Waymo and Tesla. According to a new report from Morgan Stanley’s research team that looks forward to the next half decade, robotaxis’ future — while expected to grow rapidly — might not be so different.In 2032, the Morgan Stanley research team expects Waymo and Tesla to command about...

When OpenAI unveiled an artificial intelligence-based browser in October, Alphabet Inc. investors expressed concern about what it would mean for Google Chrome, the ubiquitous gateway to the internet used by billions globally.And yet, current versions of AI browsers are far from making legacy products like Chrome obsolete: New offerings from companies such as OpenAI and Perplexity AI Inc. presen...

From 2019 to 2025, Pop Mart International Group transformed from a niche collectible retailer into a $2.5 billion global phenomenon — driven almost entirely by one product: Labubu.Our RB analysis shows that the introduction and popularization of the Labubu collectible line ignited Pop Mart’s most explosive period of growth to date, multiplying revenue 33× in just six years.Beginning as a...