The five-year-old-startup powers OpenAI’s ChatGPT voice mode and raised a $100 million round led by Index Ventures.

An engraving machine company, a benefits provider, and a sticker marketplace bought domain names this week. We’re now caught up on Sedo sales lists after the holidays, so this list includes sales completed over the past week. Sedo had some interesting domain sales this week. One of them was a $10,000 purchase by a company [...]

Pay-per-click parking program moves on from AdSense for Domains. Today, GoDaddy announced that it has shifted its CashParking program from using Google AdSense for Domains to using Google Related Search for Content (RSOC) and Yahoo ads. The move comes in the wake of Google effectively shuttering the AdSense for Domains feed. GoDaddy has already started [...]

Band never served the domain name owner. The heavy metal band Slipknot has voluntarily dismissed a cybersquatting lawsuit it filed against the domain name slipknot.com. Slipknot.com was registered in 2001, and the band was formed in the 1990s. In its lawsuit, the band argued that the domain name owner used the domain to profit from [...]

Domain owner didn’t show up to defend the domain name. The boot company Freebird Life, which uses the domain freebirdstores.com, just got an inexpensive domain name upgrade: a court has awarded the domain name freebird.com to it. The company filed an in rem lawsuit against the domain name in October 2025. Freebird.com is a very [...]

Thanks to all the members who attended our 2026 annual meeting for making it such a special event! It was great to see everyone in Las Vegas this January, and the energy throughout the week really highlighted what makes this community unique. Held January 15–17 at Park MGM, the meeting benefited from a smaller, more [...]

Humans&, a new startup founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, is building the next generation of foundation models for collaboration, not chat.

DNSSEC promised to secure DNS with cryptographic proof, yet messy rollouts, outages, and hype backlash ruined its reputation. This piece argues that storytelling and emotions shape adoption as much as specs, and that automation enables a reset.

General Fusion's merger with an acquisition company will net the company over $300 million. Just last year, the company ran into trouble raising money from other investors.

Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.