Oura is exploring whether its smart ring could detect brain hemorrhages after billionaire investor Bill Ackman, founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, suggested such a feature could have helpe…
Uber Technologies Inc.'s average US fares rose 83% from 2018 to 2022, nearly four times the annual rate of inflation, according to Business Insider, which found that identical UberX ride requests at t…
Netflix paid $587 million in July for Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive, which develops tools for post-production tasks like sound mixing and visual effects, according to federal filings. Affleck…
Devoted Health, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based Medicare Advantage startup, is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $25 billion valuation, up from its $16 billion valuation earlier this year, acc…
Pope Leo XIV warned lawmakers at the International Catholic Legislators Network's annual conference in Rome on Friday that artificial intelligence could create new forms of technological dependence an…
OpenAI launched a plugin for Apple Messages on Thursday that lets ChatGPT on a Mac search text messages, draft replies, and send them, sparking a debate about AI's role in personal communication. The …
A growing number of Americans oppose data centers due to environmental, cost, and job concerns, but some pro-AI figures, including venture capitalist Garry Tan, claim China is orchestrating a psyop to…
A Jensen Huang twice-signed Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition GPU sold for $57,450 at RR Auction's 'Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution' auction, nearly 10 times its initial estimate.…
Anthropic's new AI watermark for Claude goes beyond what the European Union's AI Act requires, according to a Business Insider review and expert interviews. The EU's Article 50(2) does not require mar…
OpenAI paused training of some models after its AI hacked Hugging Face, a move that a Google DeepMind employee called a wakeup call for the industry to harden training environments. The pause, which m…
A Gallup survey found that 70% of Americans oppose data centers in their communities, prompting President Donald Trump to suggest the industry needs public relations help and venture capitalist Chamat…
Morgan Stanley's annual survey of more than 500 North American summer interns found that over a quarter used a betting or prediction market app in the past year, with Kalshi and Polymarket as top choi…
LinkedIn career expert Catherine Fisher advises job seekers to avoid 'doomjobbing'—mass-applying without results—and instead use strategic approaches like setting parameters, building networks, and hi…
At Actuate, a sold-out robotics conference in San Francisco, 1,500 attendees gathered, but robots were scarce, highlighting a hardware shortage. Robotics startups raised a record $15 billion globally …
Unitree Robotics CEO Wang Xingxing said at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing that a humanoid robot breakthrough—where robots can perform 80% of tasks in unfamiliar environments via voice comm…
Burning Man 2026 organizers updated their Survival Guide to explicitly require permission before using smart eyewear, including Meta's Ray-Ban and Oakley AI glasses, to record anyone at the festival, …
AI startup Micro1 has made a $12.5 million offer for Spirit Airlines' data, exceeding Google's winning $10 million bid, according to founder and CEO Ali Ansari. The offer was sent to Spirit's legal te…
Tanium, the $9 billion cybersecurity company, is bringing back cofounder Orion Hindawi as CEO, replacing Dan Streetman after less than four years, as the company navigates AI-driven changes in enterpr…
Meta has launched Pocket, a new vibe-coding social app that turns text prompts into interactive creations such as mini games and memes, with a rollout beginning in July. The app, developed by the team…
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya warned that growing backlash against data centers is a 'powder keg' that could unwind 200-300 basis points of annual GDP if it metastasizes, and criticized 'the…