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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 accuracy
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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 App Store
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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 current news
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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
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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 meetups;
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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 AI
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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’
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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
player powered by Deezer
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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 begins
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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
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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 families.
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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.
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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 first responders
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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 steps
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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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A warning sign about AI’s real cost, courtesy of Google and Amazon
Plus - Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped; Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become
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Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company
Plus - US government says it got hacked — again; Popular TV-tracking app TV Time is shutting down
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OpenClaw is finally available on Android and iOS
Plus - Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models
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X now offers an MCP server to make its platform easier for AI tools to use
Plus - Tesla starts testing Cybercab without pedals or a steering wheel in Austin
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In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights
Plus - TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization
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Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that
Plus - YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speed
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Trump admin proposes axing brake-pedal requirement for AVs in a boost for Tesla
Plus - Apple raises Mac and iPad prices, spares iPhone for now
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Slate Auto’s radically simple electric truck starts at $24,950
Plus - If you want to cut your screen time, just get a Brick
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Meta debuts new, cheaper smart glasses under its own brand
Plus - Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates
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Lucid Motors’ new CEO cuts 18% of staff to ‘simplify the company’
Plus - Instagram looks to take on streaming services with longer-form, episodic and live formats for its TV app
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Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them from driving into highway construction zones
Plus - Mivo’s new app takes a mindful approach to managing screen time
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Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows
Despite the fact that AI increasingly dominates our economy, most Americans are not particularly optimistic about the technology’s long-term impact on the country, a Pew Research study reveals.
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Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027
Plus - DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation
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Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users
Plus - ChatGPT’s market share slips below 50% for the first time
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Fox to acquire Roku in $22 billion deal
Plus - As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66 million to give them identities
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SpaceX opens at $150, an 11% pop for the most anticipated debut in history
Plus - Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar’s video AI is built for India’s scale
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Opendoor’s India exit is fueling a bigger conversation about AI and outsourcing
Plus - DoorDash’s new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos
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Pinterest bets on creators with Amazon Storefront integration
Plus - Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI
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How an e-scooter founder raised $5 million to build space data centers
Plus - Evotrex raises $30M to build the RV that doesn’t need a charging station
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Eventbrite and Vimeo owner Bending Spoons files to go public
Plus - Amazon now lets you design custom merch using AI
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Google and FBI warn of ransomware group that sends fake IT workers to hack victims in person
Plus - Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months
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Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.
Plus - Cash App launches a wand for tap-and-pay
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Meet Wander, a StumbleUpon-inspired tool for discovering the ‘small web’
Plus - TikTok launches TikTok Pro Events, an app for cultural moments like the FIFA World Cup
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Meta tests ‘Series’ for episodic Reels on Instagram and Facebook
Plus - Anthropic scales Claude Mythos to critical infrastructure in 15+ countries
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Strava declares war on scrapers ahead of IPO
Plus - Unastella, a South Korean rocket startup that launched from home, raises $24M
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This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory
Plus - Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO
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Google engineer charged with insider trading after making $1.2M on Polymarket
Plus - Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, launches its iOS app
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YouTube will now automatically label AI videos
Plus - Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks
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Spotify now lets you stream narrated magazine articles, too
Plus - Amazon fulfillment competitor Stord raises $250M at $3B valuation
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Spotify’s AI bet: more of everything, less of what you want
Plus - Smart ring maker Oura files to go public
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Meta quietly launches Forum
Plus - Waymo expands pause to four cities
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Spotify takes on Google’s NotebookLM
Spotify will reserve tickets for top fans of an artists in a bid to drum up engagement; Spotify launches an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool
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Youtube adds ‘Ask YouTube’
Plus - AI search startups are blowing up; Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI
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Google Search as you know it is over.
The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over
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Amazon’s new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes
Plus - If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI; Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
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YouTube viewers watch 2 billion hours of Shorts on TVs each month
Plus - Even GoPro is pivoting to defense
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Spotify to adopt Apple’s new video podcast tech
Plus - Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI; Instagram’s new ‘Instants’ feature combines elements from Snapchat and BeReal
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Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAI
Amazon launches an AI shopping assistant for the search bar; WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats
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TikTok launching TikTok GO
Plus - Amazon launches 30-minute delivery across the U.S.; Spotify launches a Wrapped-style recap of your entire listening history
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Venmo’s biggest makeover in years comes at a very interesting time
Plus - TikTok launches an ad-free subscription plan in the UK; Bravo is creating unscripted microdramas for the Peacock app
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Disney looking to make a unified ‘super app’
Plus - Lime, the Uber-backed micromobility company, files for IPO; Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its new code
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Spotify wants to become the home for AI-generated personal audio
Kalshi doubles valuation in 5 months, hitting $22B; Jeff Bezos rep leaves Slate Auto’s board
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The AI boom pushes Samsung to $1T
Plus - The AI boom pushes Samsung to $1T; Bumble’s paying users are slipping as it bets on an overhaul later this year; Marc Lore says that AI will soon enable anyone open a restaurant
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Threads finally brings messaging to the web
Plus - Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after a chatbot allegedly posed as a doctor; Etsy launches its app within ChatGPT as it continues its AI push
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Doordash adds new AI tools
Plus - A TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines after its abrupt weekend collapse; In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate emergency room diagnoses than two human doctors
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