Uber to put 500 data-collection vehicles on the road this year

by News Feed Editor | Jun 3, 2026 | Technology

Uber revealed on Wednesday a prototype car that it plans to use to scoop up real-world driving data for its growing roster of autonomous vehicle partners, including Avride, Waymo, and WeRide. The vehicle is not some radical design. Rather, it’s a Hyundai Ioniq 5...

Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal

by News Feed Editor | Jun 3, 2026 | Technology

If Alphabet’s record-breaking $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings — and it does — we can safely say that investors are voracious. Google’s parent company had initially intended to sell a first tranche of $40 billion worth of...

Meta mercifully spun out VR fitness game Supernatural instead of just killing it

by News Feed Editor | Jun 3, 2026 | Technology

Meta’s attempt to pioneer a metaverse and make VR cool totally flopped, except for one shining diamond in the rough: Supernatural, a VR fitness game that made working out feel fun and accessible. Now, users can rejoice that Supernatural isn’t shutting down after all....

Substack’s new ‘Reply Rules’ feature lets creators control how people respond

by News Feed Editor | Jun 3, 2026 | Technology

Substack announced on Wednesday a new feature called “Reply Rules,” designed to give creators greater control over how their audiences are able to respond.  With the feature, creators can establish specific guidelines for comments on their posts, in Notes, or in Chat....

Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon

by News Feed Editor | Jun 3, 2026 | Technology

Google Labs, the tech giant’s team devoted to experimental product design, has launched a new AI-fueled app for iOS and Android that will quite literally animate your life. Behold, Dreambeans. Why is it called that? We’ll get to that later. First, what is it? Gozde...

Google’s new open source Gemma 4 12B analyzes audio, video — and runs entirely locally on a typical 16GB enterprise laptop

by News Feed Editor | Jun 3, 2026 | Technology

While many AI open source model providers are pursuing larger and more powerful models, Google is still giving attention to the smaller, more local side of the market. Today, the tech giant released Gemma 4 12B, an 11.95-billion-parameter open-weights model with...