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Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using text prompts.

Hopper will pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations that it used deceptive “dark patterns” to hide fees and mislead travelers about the costs and benefits of services.

The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.

A former software manager claims Wisk rushed software testing ahead of a crucial 2025 flight test.

Early-stage firm Magnify Ventures has raised a $46.6 million Fund II from LPs including Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains from the AI boom.

TV Time, the popular TV-tracking app, is shutting down on July 15 as parent company Whip Media pivots toward enterprise AI products.

The company announced a new slate of executive hires meant to help turn things around, as Gravity SUV sales are not taking off as expected.

A top Democrat on the Senate’s Intelligence Committee warned that the information accessed on a Homeland Security intelligence-sharing network may risk national security.

Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.

The company delivered more than 480,000 EVs globally, seemingly thanks to geographic expansion and cheaper versions of the Model 3, Model Y, and Cybertruck.

The company now expects to ship a few thousand more vehicles by the end of 2026 than it previously expected, after launching its R2 SUV last month.

Ben Guez has “a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs,” thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Claude code, and Instagram trials.

Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he’s taking on Microsoft Office, Google Apps with AI.

Apple is readying several new iPad Pro tablets, and a budget-friendly MacBook Pro, reports suggest.

The company has grown rapidly by acquiring and revamping last-generation tech brands like AOL, Eventbrite, Evernote, Meetup, and Vimeo.

The co-founders of Bending Spoons, the Italian company quietly buying beloved, ailing Internet brands, learned big lessons from their own startup’s failure.

Meta says usernames improve privacy, but critics question whether its safeguards can prevent impersonation.

Research appears to reveal a bug that could render the feature effectively useless.

SpaceX reportedly showed investors a “handset-like” AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expand into wireless.

Sound built its reputation on concentrated, high-conviction bets in category-leading AI labs, while Kutcher’s new fund appears to be chasing the layer underneath those companies — the infrastructure and energy that power them.

The AI neocloud provider, which specializes in hosting open source models, last raised at a $3.3 billion valuation in early 2025.

Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.

Honda wants in on the lucrative energy storage market. This week it began producing batteries destined for data centers, not driveways.

The autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the talent wars and capital are heating up the same way they did the first time around. The money’s flowing back, and it’s the people who lived through that first … Read more

The nine-year-old scooter and bike-share company has said it needs the funds to help pay down around $1 billion in liabilities.

Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.

Google’s 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.

Sony will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games beginning in 2028, as the company embraces an all-digital future.

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