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Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label
Plus - Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot; YouTube now lets creators tag Amazon products and earn commissions from purchases
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
Plus - Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more
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Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax
Plus - Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9th Bill Gates Ring introduces a new encryption standard
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Apple debuts its ‘most powerful chip ever’ in M5 Ultra and M6
Plus - Uber launches live video streaming for teen accounts; Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60%
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Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
Plus - Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash; Two years after launch, Walmart’s Flipkart is closing in on In...
OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic
Plus - Walmart to finally start accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay; Oura faces lawsuit accusing it of misleading consumers about sleep-tracking accura...
Meta’s experimental vibe-coding gaming app
Plus - Patreon launches 30 new creator features; Senators demand answers from TikTok
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Amazon’s Prime Air is taking off in nearly 500 US cities
Plus - You can Venmo your college tuition, for some reason; TikTok explores peer-to-peer payments via DMs
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Why Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods may not be the ‘pervert pods’ consumers fear
Plus - Peacock is raising prices across all of its streaming plans; OpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens
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Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’
Plus - Uber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network; YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing
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Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works
Plus - Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations; Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the...
Facebook officially rolls out its stand-alone Creator Studio app
Plus - Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps; Apple in talks to pay publishers to provide Siri with cur...
Everything announced at Made by Google ’26
Plus - The latest in startup business news
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Jeff Bezos might finally get his hands on a sports team
Plus - OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer; Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models
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Meta gets a new AI model
Plus - Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the US; Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default
Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster
Plus - The Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms; Bumble teases a swipe-free future as it doubles down on IRL meetup...
eBay continues to bet on live shopping
Plus - Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings; Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving A...
Disney+ looks to TikTok creators to bring fan content
Plus - Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta; SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth
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Spotify now has over 300M subscribers
Plus - Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B; Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip
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Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?
Plus - Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT; Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users’ internet connections with strangers
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Spotify launches ‘User Notes’ to let users add memories to songs, and more
Plus - Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI; LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’<...
Mark Zuckerberg predicts billions will have personal AI agents in five years
Plus - A new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart offers an AI
assistant for homeowners; Winamp aims for a comeback with a new music
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DoorDash is building its own drone delivery business
Plus - Sam Altman is ready to decelerate; Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid
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Peacock bets on bundles through a new deal with YouTube
Plus - Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive; Lyft and Baidu enter London’s robotaxi battleground as testing b...
Can Apple make smart glasses that aren’t a constant privacy threat?
Plus - Snapchat now lets you share what you’re listening to in real time; Threads users can now chat with Meta AI in their DMs
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Facebook launches a dedicated Marketplace app for sellers
Plus - Patreon lays off 20% of its workforce; OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
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Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone
Plus - Amazon is bringing games to Prime Video; Ford bets on Apple for its next-generation of EVs
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Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack
Plus - Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination; Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts.
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Deezer says more than 50% of daily music uploads are AI-generated
Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts; Threads rolls out parental supervision tools
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YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop
Plus - Adobe camera app’s new feature will critique your photos using AI; Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup
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Google’s AI Mode gets an update
Plus - Uber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero deal would nearly double its global footprint; Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos;
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Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down to OpenAI
Plus - Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot; Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal
OpenAI announces first hardware device
Plus - Lorde says AI glasses are ‘not sexy’; Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery
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Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe
Plus - X just tweaked its algorithm to make it more friendly; 12 states sue to block Paramount’s $110B Warner Bros. deal
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OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households
More than three years after ChatGPT’s launch brought generative AI into the mainstream, OpenAI is broadening its focus beyond individual users to fami...
Netflix could be planning ‘always-on’ live TV channels
Plus - EU threatens Meta with fines over addictive features on Facebook and Instagram; Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.
Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI
Plus - Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits; Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with f...
Meta just launched a new AI generator
Plus - Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models; Venus Williams-backed WeWard can now lock your apps until you hit your...
Netflix dabbles in shorter video content
Netflix invented binge-watching. Now it may have outgrown it.
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If you use Google, you’re training its AI
Plus - Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees
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