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Threads Expands Live Chats With Translations and New Host Controls

Threads is expanding access to Live Chats while adding translations, co-hosting and moderation tools. The updates are designed to make real-time conversations easier to manage and accessible to users who…

Tesla Tests Steering-Wheel-Free Cybercab on Austin Roads

Tesla has begun testing a production version of its two-seat Cybercab on public roads in Austin, Texas. The vehicle has no steering wheel or pedals, although a safety monitor was…

Blue Origin Targets New Glenn Return This Year as Explosion Cause Remains Unknown

Blue Origin still plans to launch its New Glenn rocket before the end of 2026, even though investigators have not determined what caused the vehicle to explode during a ground…

X Launches Hosted MCP Server for Direct AI Assistant Access

X has launched a hosted Model Context Protocol server that allows AI assistants such as Claude, Cursor and Grok Build to connect directly to the social platform. The service uses…

Riverside Adds AI-Powered Newsletters to Its Video and Podcast Platform

Riverside has added built-in newsletter publishing, allowing users to turn recorded videos and podcasts into written newsletters with AI. Creators and businesses can generate, edit and send newsletters without leaving…

AWS Commits $1 Billion to Embed AI Engineers With Customers

Amazon Web Services is committing an initial $1 billion to a new organization that will place AI engineers directly inside customer teams. The Forward Deployed Engineering group will help companies…

Google Expands Personalized Gemini Image Generation to Free U.S. Users

Google is making Gemini’s personalized image generation available for free to all eligible users in the United States. The feature combines Personal Intelligence with Google’s Nano Banana 2 model to…

Kobo Adds Automatic StoryGraph Sync for E-Books and Audiobooks

Rakuten Kobo has activated its integration with StoryGraph, allowing readers to automatically update their book progress without logging it manually. Kobo is the first e-reader provider to offer native syncing…

Waymo Robotaxis Leave Uber’s Phoenix App as Three-Year Partnership Ends

Waymo robotaxis are no longer available through Uber in Phoenix, ending the companies’ nearly three-year deployment in the city. The vehicles assigned to the program have returned to Waymo’s Phoenix…

California Secures 50% Claude Discount for State and Local Government Agencies

California has entered into an agreement with Anthropic that gives state agencies, cities and counties access to Claude at a 50% discount. The arrangement also includes free workforce training, technical…

Samsung and SK Hynix Plan $518 Billion Memory Chip Expansion in South Korea

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plan to invest about 800 trillion won, or $518 billion, to build four memory chip fabrication plants in southwestern South Korea. The projects form part…

Arena Reaches $100 Million Annualized Revenue Eight Months After Commercial Launch

Arena has reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching its commercial AI evaluation service. The company grew from a UC Berkeley research project into a business…

Cursor Launches iOS App for Managing Coding Agents From a Phone

Cursor has released a mobile app that lets developers launch, monitor and direct AI coding agents from an iPhone. The public beta arrives shortly after SpaceX agreed to acquire Cursor’s…

U.S. Permitting Delays Put 92 GW of Clean Energy Projects at Risk

Federal permitting delays and funding withdrawals could disrupt 92 gigawatts of planned U.S. clean energy capacity as electricity demand rises, according to Wood Mackenzie. The affected wind, solar and storage…

TIDAL to Demonetize Fully AI-Generated Music From July 15

TIDAL will stop fully AI-generated music from earning royalties or generating direct-to-fan sales under a new policy taking effect on July 15, 2026. The streaming service will also label wholly…

Supreme Court Extends Fourth Amendment Protections to Geofence Location Data

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that law enforcement access to a person’s Google location history qualifies as a search under the Fourth Amendment. The 6-3 decision establishes that cellphone…

WhatsApp Opens Username Reservations Ahead of Wider Launch

WhatsApp has opened reservations for usernames, allowing users to prepare for a feature that will let them connect without sharing their phone numbers. The Meta-owned messaging service will introduce usernames…

Rocket Lab Agrees to Acquire Iridium in $8 Billion Satellite Deal

Rocket Lab has agreed to acquire satellite communications operator Iridium for approximately $8 billion, expanding the launch provider into satellite network operations and communications services. The proposed cash-and-stock transaction values…

Proception Raises $11 Million After Settling Tesla Trade Secrets Lawsuit

Proception has raised $11 million in seed funding and started shipping its first ProHand robotic hands to researchers and robotics companies. The funding follows the startup’s settlement of a trade…

Pocket Raises $11 Million as Demand Grows for Dedicated AI Recorders

Pocket has raised $11 million to expand its credit card-sized AI recorder, which captures in-person conversations and converts them into transcripts, summaries and action items. Accel led the funding, with…