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

by News Feed Editor | Jun 16, 2026 | Technology

Getting cited by AI is easier than earning consumers’ trust, according to a new report from WordPress VIP, the Automattic-owned company that offers an enterprise version of the WordPress publishing platform. As brands race to have their links appear in AI search...

SpaceX passes Amazon as valuation balloons to $2.7T

by News Feed Editor | Jun 16, 2026 | Technology

SpaceX passed Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, after its stock price climbed 20% on Monday and more than 8% in early trading Tuesday, bringing its valuation to more than $2.7 trillion. That’s despite Amazon turning a $78 billion profit in...

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

by News Feed Editor | Jun 16, 2026 | Technology

As LLMs have grown more powerful, hallucinations have proven stubbornly difficult to avoid. Errors pop up in even the smartest models, and while there are ways to catch those errors, the industry is still figuring out the best way to do it. Probably, which just raised...

India orders temporary ban on Telegram over exam fraud concerns

by News Feed Editor | Jun 16, 2026 | Technology

India has issued an order to block Telegram until June 22 over concerns that fraudsters are using the messaging platform to target candidates ahead of a re-test of the country’s biggest entrance exam. The move was announced on Tuesday by India’s National Testing...

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

by News Feed Editor | Jun 16, 2026 | Technology

How humans alloy metals is essentially the same today as it was in the Bronze Age: Melt some different metals in a pot and mix them until they form a new, better metal. An early stage startup, Foundation Alloy, has developed a new alloying technique that beats the...

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

by News Feed Editor | Jun 16, 2026 | Technology

SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor in a $60 billion stock deal, just a few days after the space company’s historic IPO and less than two months after announcing a tie-up between the two. The deal is meant to help SpaceX’s AI division — built around...