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Meta Spins Out Supernatural Fitness Game Into Independent Company After Earlier Plan To Stop New Content

Meta is letting the Supernatural team spin off into a new independent company called Supernatural Health. The new company will take over the VR fitness app later this year. Meta…

Substack Adds Reply Rules That Learn From Creator Actions To Auto-Filter Comments

Substack announced on Wednesday a new feature called Reply Rules. The feature gives creators greater control over how their audiences can respond. Creators can establish specific guidelines for comments on…

Google Labs Releases Dreambeans App That Generates AI-Illustrated Stories From User’s Google Data

Google Labs has launched a new AI-fueled app for iOS and Android called Dreambeans. The app uses data culled from across a user’s various Google services to generate a curated…

Meta Launches AI Customer Support Bot Globally On WhatsApp For Small Businesses

Meta on Wednesday said it is making its customer support AI bot available globally within WhatsApp. The bot is now known as Meta Business Agent. Meta has spent nearly two…

Plex Adds Discussions And Lists To Compete With Reddit And Letterboxd

Plex unveiled several social features on Wednesday aimed at changing how users interact with the platform. The company has transformed from a personal media server into a streaming hub with…

Uber Reports Thousands Of Lost Items In Robotaxis Including Dentures And An ‘I Heart Hot Dads’ Bag

Uber released its annual Lost & Found Index on Tuesday. The report typically catalogues millions of forgotten items from human-driven rides. This year, Uber used the report to highlight lost…

Xcimer Energy Activates Phoenix Laser System As A Step Toward Fusion Power Plant

Fusion startup Xcimer Energy switched on its Phoenix laser system on Wednesday. The company says Phoenix is the largest privately owned laser system in the world. Xcimer’s approach to fusion…

Cyera Finalizes $300M Round At $12B Valuation Just Five Months After $400M Series F

Data storage security company Cyera is finalizing a round led by Evolution Equity Partners of at least $300 million at a $12 billion valuation, according to four people with knowledge of the…

Uber Caps AI Coding Tools At $1,500 Per Employee Per Month After Burning Annual Budget In Four Months

Uber has instituted internal usage caps on AI coding tools to moderate rising costs. The company now places a monthly $1,500 cap per employee and per agentic coding tool, including…

Microsoft’s ASSERT Framework Turns Plain Language Into Automated AI Tests For Application-Specific Behavior

Microsoft introduced ASSERT (Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing) on Tuesday. The open-source framework simplifies testing for application-specific AI behavior. ASSERT uses AI to turn high-level, natural-language descriptions…

Martin Scorsese Joins Black Forest Labs As Adviser For Storyboarding

Martin Scorsese has signed on as a partner and adviser to Black Forest Labs, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. He will use the startup’s image‑generation tool solely for…

Layup Parts Raises $42 Million Series A After Anduril Alumni Workshopped Pitch

Layup Parts raised $42 million in a Series A round led by dual-use fund Marlinspike, the Huntington Beach, California, composites startup announced Tuesday. The company, founded in 2024 by former…

Google Adds Fake Call Detection To Phone App To Block Deepfake Scams

Google announced Tuesday that Android is rolling out fake call detection in Phone by Google to Android 12+ devices this month, starting with Pixel devices. The feature runs by default…

Microsoft Proposes Agent Control Specification To Govern AI Agents

Microsoft on Thursday released an open source standard called Agent Control Specification (ACS) that aims to let developers, compliance teams, and security staff define consistent, granular rules for AI agents.…

Amazon’s Ring Sued Over Familiar Faces Facial Recognition Feature

Amazon was sued on Monday in Seattle over allegations that Ring’s Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without their consent, a class action filed by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt…

Trump Signs Executive Order Requiring Voluntary 30-Day AI Model Reviews Before Public Release

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday designed to give the government a chance to review powerful AI models before they are released. The order asks certain AI companies to…

OpenAI Launches Six Job-Specific Codex Plug-ins, Sites, And Annotations To Push Enterprise Adoption And Now Has 5M+ Weekly Codex Users

OpenAI released six new plug-ins for Codex aimed at specific enterprise roles—data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking—plus a Sites feature to output work as hosted interactive…

Focused Energy Raises Oversubscribed $240 Million Series A, One Of The Largest Early-Stage Rounds For A Fusion Power Startup

Focused Energy recently raised an oversubscribed $240 million Series A round, one of the largest early-stage rounds for a fusion power startup, announced last week. The new round brings the…

Dashlane Hackers Brute-Forced 2FA To Steal At Least A Dozen Encrypted Password Vaults From About 20 Accounts

Dashlane confirmed that hackers brute-forced its two-factor authentication (2FA) system over a weekend, gaining access to about 20 customer accounts and stealing at least a dozen encrypted password vaults. The…

Meta Tests “Series” For Reels To Bundle Episodic Content Into A Dedicated Profile Hub On Instagram And Facebook

Meta is testing a new “Series” feature for Reels that lets select creators bundle new and old Reels into episodic series with a dedicated hub on their profile, mirroring TikTok’s…