Market research is too slow for the AI era, so Brox built 60,000 identical ‘digital twins’ of real people you can survey instantly, repeatedly

by News Feed Editor | May 6, 2026 | Technology

In a world where a viral TikTok video can cause a brand to trend globally in mere hours, the traditional market research cycle — often spanning 12 weeks — is becoming a liability. The lag between a survey question and the answers from a wide (or targeted) pool of...

Chrome on Android now supports approximate instead of precise location sharing

by News Feed Editor | May 6, 2026 | Technology

Chrome on Android now lets users share their approximate location with websites rather than their precise location, Google announced this week. The tech giant says that while some cases require precise location, such as when you’re placing a delivery order or trying...

Google updates AI search to include ‘expert advice’ from Reddit and other web forums

by News Feed Editor | May 6, 2026 | Technology

Google is updating search to refine its AI experience by adding additional context to links, like conversations from web forums, as well as a feature that highlights links from a user’s news subscriptions. While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users...

Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full-stack, demo shows

by News Feed Editor | May 6, 2026 | Technology

Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, and it comes with surprise hands. In a demo video, the company showcased various advanced tasks performed by a set of robotic...

Tinder owner Match Group is slowing hiring to pay for its increased use of AI tools

by News Feed Editor | May 6, 2026 | Technology

You might think the big story out of Match Group’s first-quarter earnings is Tinder’s turnaround. The dating app’s revenue is slightly up again after quarter-after-quarter of declines. But we’d like to point to a comment the chief financial officer made about how the...

Apple to pay $250M to settle lawsuit over Siri’s delayed AI features

by News Feed Editor | May 6, 2026 | Technology

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit over how it marketed its AI features ahead of the launch of the iPhone 16. The Financial Times was the first to report the news.  The lawsuit alleged that Apple exaggerated the breadth of features...