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Social media’s next evolution: User-controlled algorithms

June 17, 2026 by kamal

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.

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World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names

June 17, 2026 by kamal

World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch.

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Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web

June 17, 2026 by kamal

Mastodon’s newly launched newsletter feature lets anyone subscribe to creators by email, even without a Mastodon account.

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Two Stanford grads raise $11M to build a noninvasive wearable for hormone tracking

June 17, 2026 by kamal

Clair Health’s wearable will cost $369 and will an app-based subscription of $9.99 per month

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Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker

June 17, 2026 by kamal

Google is betting generative AI can breathe new life into the smart speaker. The company’s new $99.99 Google Home Speaker replaces the rigid commands of the Google Assistant era with more conversational Gemini interactions.

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PayPal Ventures shutters as company restructuring continues

June 17, 2026 by kamal

The corporate venture arm ends after 10 years and 80 investments.

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The slowtech revolution is here to kill your phone addiction and rescue your attention span

June 17, 2026 by kamal

“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention… They’re down for whatever helps them do that.”

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Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.

June 17, 2026 by kamal

If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there’s a data problem that needs to be solved.

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Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI

June 17, 2026 by kamal

Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be costly and reliability is at a premium.

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SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants

June 17, 2026 by kamal

Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.

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Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom

June 17, 2026 by kamal

The Canadian pension giant will acquire an 8.2% stake in CtrlS, a tech giant that operates more than 15 data centers across India.

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DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation

June 17, 2026 by kamal

With this acquisition, DeepL is opening an office in San Francisco to expand its U.S. business.

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Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027

June 17, 2026 by kamal

This will be the second market to have an Uber robotaxi service outfitted with Lucid EVs equipped with a self-driving system from Nuro.

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Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’

June 17, 2026 by kamal

Pinterest has launched ‘Ask Pinterest,’ an experimental AI-powered shopping app that lets users seek recommendations and inspiration through a conversational interface.

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Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests

June 16, 2026 by kamal

Anthropic’s popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.

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Apple plans to change its Hide My Email privacy feature that could make it less effective

June 16, 2026 by kamal

In the coming weeks, Apple will move anonymously generated emails addresses to a different domain.

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Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end

June 16, 2026 by kamal

Qualcomm’s CEO said today that the company is working on over 40 new AI hardware designs

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Bug in FIFA World Cup internal system gave anyone ability to modify TV stream

June 16, 2026 by kamal

A security researcher said a flaw in FIFA’s online platforms allowed her to access several internal systems, including one that could have allowed her to take control of the TV stream of every World Cup match.

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Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features

June 16, 2026 by kamal

Google has released Android 17 and Wear OS 7, introducing new multitasking features, parental controls, security tools, and smartwatch upgrades. The launch is also accompanied by a Pixel Drop that brings Google’s latest AI models to its devices.

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Mobileye’s US robotaxi launch will put it on both sides of the AV business

June 16, 2026 by kamal

Mobileye apparently wants to own some of the robotaxi market, even if that puts it in direct competition with companies it supplies its self-driving system to.

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Rivian cuts hundreds of workers after R2 deliveries start

June 16, 2026 by kamal

The company said the cuts were part of a restructuring meant to help scale to profitability. Rivian recently pushed back its profitability goal to invest in autonomy.

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Sixty percent of U.S. consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds

June 16, 2026 by kamal

WordPress VIP’s latest survey suggests consumers are wary of AI-generated answers even as companies increasingly view AI search as an important referral channel.

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Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple

June 16, 2026 by kamal

African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as investor and partner.

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Robinhood’s note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isn’t cutting it

June 16, 2026 by kamal

Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most of AI, Robinhood’s CEO Vlad Tenev conspicuously made no mention of AI in his note about layoffs.

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SpaceX passes Amazon as valuation balloons to $2.7T

June 16, 2026 by kamal

SpaceX’s valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.

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Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI

June 16, 2026 by kamal

Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.

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India orders temporary ban on Telegram over exam fraud concerns

June 16, 2026 by kamal

The restrictions include a nationwide ban on Telegram until June 22 and a requirement to disable the app’s message editing feature.

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This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives

June 16, 2026 by kamal

Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.

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SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

June 16, 2026 by kamal

The deal is supposed to help SpaceX’s struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.

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Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users

June 16, 2026 by kamal

The Meta-owned social platform announced a series of new features launching today, including a “Your Algo” tool that lets users control what they see in their feeds

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