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Apple bans home services from its upcoming Maps ads
Apple has quietly published a rulebook for its new Maps ads, revealing a more curated approach than advertising giant Google. The iPhone maker has not disclosed a launch date for Maps ads, which was announced earlier this year, beyond saying they would arrive “this...
Cohere VP says enterprise AI sovereignty requires control of the full agent stack at VB Transform 2026
Hundreds of enterprise leaders and technical experts packed the main ballroom of the luxurious Hotel Nia in Menlo Park this week for VB Transform 2026, the year's preeminent conference on using generative AI agents to drive business outcomes. Rachad Alao, vice...
SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch
SpaceX’s shares fell to just above $135 on Wednesday, the price that CEO Elon Musk and his company chose ahead of its blockbuster June 12 IPO that raked in nearly $86 billion. The company’s stock spent much of the day below that IPO price, at one point dipping beneath...
Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released its first in-house AI model Wednesday morning, called Inkling. And unlike the flagship models from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, it’s open-weight, meaning outside developers and...
Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data
The AI music generator Suno was hacked, according to a report from 404 Media. The hacker told the publication that they used a supply chain attack to access an employee’s credentials, allowing them to then access source code showing how Suno allegedly scraped decades...
Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations
Livestream shopping app Whatnot announced Wednesday that it has acquired Shaped, a machine learning company that specializes in real-time recommendation and search systems. The deal is meant to strengthen Whatnot’s discovery and personalization capabilities as the...
Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI
Microsoft released a record number of security patches for Windows, Office, and other tech product lines this week, citing the use of AI to aid the discovery of code vulnerabilities. The technology and cloud giant issued patches for 570 security flaws on Tuesday as...
Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for around $53.4B
Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint bid to acquire PayPal in a deal valued at approximately $53.4 billion. Reuters reports that the offer was submitted earlier this month and is backed by roughly $50 billion in...
Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI
Apple Intelligence, the iPhone maker’s generative AI offering, is coming to China. On Wednesday, Reuters reported that China’s regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, approved Apple’s AI services in the country, on the back of a deal to integrate Alibaba’s...
A proof of concept forgives a fragile data path. Operational AI does not.
Presented by F5When enterprises move AI workloads from pilot to production, data delivery often becomes the factor that determines whether those systems can scale reliably. Point-to-point architectures connecting storage directly to compute hold up under demonstration...
The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI
Oracle disclosed Monday that it has reduced its workforce by 21,000 employees over the past 12 months, a decline of 13%, which means more cuts than was previously known, including jobs eliminated because of AI. “The adoption and deployment of AI technologies across...
OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open-source bugs
OpenAI announced a new initiative on Monday designed to help the open source community improve its cybersecurity game and ward off bugs. “Patch the Planet,” (which is a not-so-subtle allusion to “Hack the Planet,” the iconic catch phrase from the 1995 movie Hackers)...
Tesla pushes back on Autopilot narrative after fatal Texas crash
A fatal weekend crash in which a Tesla plowed through a brick home in Katy, Texas, killing a 76-year-old woman, set off alarms about the company’s driver assistance technology. By Monday afternoon, Tesla was fighting back against the framing. The crash occurred Friday...
Shareholders sue Uber’s board over sexual assaults, other incidents
A lawsuit led by a Detroit pension fund accuses Uber management and its board of putting profits ahead of compliance and safety, decisions that have exposed the company and its shareholders to risk. The lawsuit, which was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for...
The AI world is getting ‘loopy’
On Friday, Claude Code creator Boris Cherny made an appearance at Meta’s @Scale conference and, surprisingly, the first question from the audience was about loops. “Are loops the next hype cycle,” the questioner asked, “or are they for real?” Cherny’s answer was an...
Microsoft and Chevron plan one of the largest gas-powered data center projects in US
Microsoft and Chevron announced plans on Monday to develop a 2.67-gigawatt natural gas power plant in West Texas to serve the tech company’s AI and cloud data centers. Under the 20-year power purchase agreement, the plant will provide dedicated electricity to a...
Alibaba’s AI video model rises to No. 2 in global rankings, as OpenAI’s Sora and ByteDance’s Seedance fall away
Alibaba Cloud on Sunday released HappyHorse 1.1, a major upgrade to its AI video generation model that the company says delivers production-ready video synthesis across core content creation scenarios. The model is now live on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio with full API...
AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal
What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals, where a rival pays investors a hefty IP “licensing” fee while poaching its critical talent? For AI chipmaker Groq, the answer appears to be raise more money from investors — who were said to have...
Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem
Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating “pretty much all water usage” inside the data center, according to an Nvidia executive in a press release. “The water...
Tata Electronics, a major tech supplier to Apple and Tesla, confirms data breach
Tata Electronics, an Indian electronics and semiconductor manufacturer and a key supplier to Apple and Tesla, among other tech giants, confirmed a data breach weeks after files purportedly obtained from the company appeared on a hacker forum. The confirmation comes as...
A new unpatchable flaw in Apple chips opens the door to an iPhone jailbreak
A company that sells spyware and hacking tools to government agencies has published details of a vulnerability in Apple chips that can potentially help hackers unlock older iPhones. This release opens the door for other researchers who specialize in finding iOS...
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Recently released global data has shown that mobile website traffic worldwide has more than quadrupled since 2012, with mobile representing over 50% of all the global web pages served in 2018. For any business or group that relies on internet traffic for their...
Things to Consider Before Buying a Hoverboard
With so much hype surrounding hoverboards, it’s little wonder that these ingenious designs are the most in-demand products when it comes to the tech industry. Yet, with many of these possessing a hefty price tag, it makes sense to ensure that your hoverboard purchase...
How You Can Make a Clean Tech Future a Reality
Clean energy and clean technology are the latest trend. Why? Because the Earth is still revolving while we’re wasting energy instead of recycling it. If we don’t change our ways and adopt to these technologies, we’ll cause irreversible damage to the planet. Here are...
ConnectPal’s Business Model Comes at Opportune Time
Over the past decade, innovation in media and entertainment has caused online content creation to skyrocket. With the constant evolution of smartphones and tablet technology, it is safe to say digital products and services have become an integral component of our...