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Spotify wants to become the home for AI-generated personal audio
Kalshi doubles valuation in 5 months, hitting $22B; Jeff Bezos rep leaves Slate Auto’s board
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The AI boom pushes Samsung to $1T
Plus - The AI boom pushes Samsung to $1T; Bumble’s paying users are slipping as it bets on an overhaul later this year; Marc Lore says that AI will so...
Threads finally brings messaging to the web
Plus - Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after a chatbot allegedly posed as a doctor; Etsy launches its app within ChatGPT as it continues its AI push
Doordash adds new AI tools
Plus - A TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines after its abrupt weekend collapse; In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate emergency room...
People are finally using Reddit’s search
Plus - ChatGPT Images 2.0 is a hit in India; Apple was surprised by AI-driven demand for Macs
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Netflix wants you to watch its TikTok-like vertical video feed ‘Clips’
Plus - Spotify introduces verified artist badges to help distinguish humans from AI; Meta says its business AI now facilitates 10 million conversation...
Uber is in the hotel business now
Plus - Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public; Google Translate now lets you practice pronunciation
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YouTube is testing an AI-powered search feature
FTC reports consumers lost $2.1B to social media scams in 2025; Snapchat brings AI-powered conversational advertising to its app
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Spotify’s next frontier: Fitness content
Plus - Data center demand drives 66% surge in natural gas power plant costs; Amazon’s new podcast strategy is Monetize everything
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Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
Plus - Bob Iger rejoins Thrive Capital as advisor after Disney exit; Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs
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Meta is revamping its cross-app management system
Plus - X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam; Microsoft offers buyout for up to 7% of U.S. employees
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Google Maps is about to get a big dose of AI
Plus - Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models; Amazon Music partners with Bandsintown for concert listings
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Who is John Ternus, the incoming Apple CEO?
Plus - YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities
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NSA spies are reportedly using Anthropic’s Mythos
Plus - WhatsApp is testing a premium subscription; Robots beat human records at Beijing half-marathon
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Uber will now pick up your returns from your doorstep
Plus - Google’s AI Mode can now help you find products in stock nearby; Netflix plans to add a vertical video feed, use AI for recommendations
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Google is now targeting bad ads over bad actors
Plus - Google now lets you explore the web side-by-side with AI Mode; AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1
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Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts
Plus - After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI; Snap is cutting 1,000 jobs, 16% of its workforce.
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YouTube livestreams will now hold back ads during peak engagement
Plus - Instacart acquires Instaleap to expand its enterprise platform internationally; Google adds AI Skills to Chrome to help you save favorite workf...
Microsoft is working on yet another OpenClaw-like agent
Plus - IBM pays $17M fine to end DOJ suit over DEI programs; Booking.com confirms hackers accessed customers’ data
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France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
Plus - Stalking victim sues OpenAI, claims ChatGPT fueled her abuser’s delusions and ignored her warnings; YouTube Premium and YouTube Music are getti...
This founder helped build SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now he’s building a ‘fighter jet for orbit’
Plus - Collide Capital raises $95M fund to back fintech, future-of-work startups; Waymo robotaxis are tracking potholes and sharing that data with Waz...
X is rolling out automatic translation and photo editing powered by Grok
Plus - Google quietly launched an AI dictation app that works offline; Intel signs on to Elon Musk’s Terafab chips project
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Chrome is finally getting vertical tabs
Plus -Binge is a movie tracking app that warns you of jump scares in real time; Google Maps can now write captions for your photos using AI
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OpenAI's vision for the AI economy
As governments grapple with how to manage the economic fallout of superintelligent machines, OpenAI has released a set of policy proposals outlining t...
Meet the Facebook insider who has been building content moderation for the AI era.
When Brett Levenson left Apple in 2019 to lead business integrity at Facebook, the social media giant was in the thick of the Cambridge Analytica fall...
Microsoft takes on AI rivals with three new foundational models
Plus - Beehiiv expands into podcasting, taking aim at Patreon; NASA astronauts prove that sending an email really is rocket science
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An AI-heavy makeover coming to Slack
Plus - OpenAI raises $3B from retail investors in monster $122B fund raise; Go play this secret game in your TikTok DMs
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Airbnb is introducing a private car pickup service
Roku launches a standalone app for Howdy, its $2.99 streaming service; Whoop’s valuation just tripled to $10 billion
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Meta starts testing a premium subscription on Instagram
Plus - Uber is buying Berlin startup Blacklane to bolster its ‘Elite’ offering; Why OpenAI really shut down Sora
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Netflix confirms it’s raising prices again
Plus - Rivian gets another $1B from Volkswagen; You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini
Google is launching Search Live globally
Plus - WhatsApp can now draft AI-generated responses based on your conversations; The AI skills gap is here, says AI company, and power users are pull...
Spotify tests new tool to stop AI slop
Plus - Amazon just bought a startup making kid-size humanoid robots;
Spotify tests new tool to stop AI slop from being attributed to real
TikTok ads are about to get a tad more disruptive
Apple Music partners with Ticketmaster to power its concert discovery
feature; Roku’s $3 Howdy subscription service launches on Prime Video
Fusion startup Helion in talks with OpenAI
Plus - Elizabeth Warren calls Pentagon’s decision to bar Anthropic
‘retaliation’; DoorDash introduces relief payments for drivers
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Blue Origin enters the space data center game
Plus - Amazon working on new smartphone with Alexa; Amazon acquires Rivr, maker of a stair-climbing delivery robot
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Uber taps Rivian to build robotaxis
Plus - Meta has rolled out new AI content enforcement systems; DoorDash launches a new ‘Tasks’ app; Uber taps Rivian to build robotaxis in deal worth...
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Google’s Personal Intelligence feature is expanding to all US users
Plus - World launches tool to verify humans behind AI shopping agents; Meet Vurt, the mobile-first streaming platform for indie filmmakers embracing v...
Apple quietly launches AirPods Max 2
Plus - Shopify is preparing for AI shopping agents to change everything; ByteDance reportedly pauses global launch of its Seedance 2.0 video generator...
Peacock expands into AI-driven video, mobile-first live sports, and gaming
Plus - Substack launches a built-in recording studio; Apple drops commission rates in China without a fuss
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