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Spotify Reaches 300 Million Subscribers as Revenue Rises 14%

Spotify has passed 300 million paying subscribers for the first time as the streaming company continues expanding beyond music and investing in AI-powered features. Monthly active users reached 777 million…

India Opens Door to Merchant Fees on Higher-Value UPI Payments

India has introduced legislation that could allow merchants to be charged for some transactions made through the Unified Payments Interface, ending part of the zero-fee policy in place since 2020.…

Runware Launches Modular AI Data Centre With 1,200 GPUs

Runware has introduced the Sonic Inference Pod, a transportable data centre designed to add AI computing capacity faster than conventional facilities. Each 20-foot unit provides one megawatt of power, contains…

Endeavor Optical Networks Raises $10.75 Million for Space-Based Laser Network

Endeavor Optical Networks has emerged from stealth with $10.75 million in seed funding to develop a satellite network that would transfer data between continents using lasers. The startup plans to…

Bending Spoons Agrees to Buy Airtable for $1.28 Billion in Cash

Bending Spoons has agreed to acquire spreadsheet and database software company Airtable for $1.285 billion in cash, marking its first purchase since listing on Nasdaq in July. The transaction is…

Snap CEO Avoids Giving Specs Preorder Figures Ahead of September Launch

Snap chief executive Evan Spiegel did not disclose preorder demand for the company’s $2,195 Specs augmented reality glasses when investors questioned him during its second-quarter earnings call. Instead, he said…

Palantir CEO Warns Enterprises Against Giving AI Labs Control of Their Data

Palantir chief executive Alex Karp has warned companies that major AI model developers could eventually use customer data, prompts and business knowledge to compete with them. He argued that enterprises…

Superblocks and AWS Bring Enterprise Vibe Coding Into Private Cloud Environments

Superblocks has signed a multiyear agreement with Amazon Web Services to let companies build AI-generated internal applications inside their own AWS environments. The arrangement is designed to prevent company data,…

Autonomous AI Hacks Raise Unresolved Questions About Legal Liability

Autonomous AI agents cannot currently be prosecuted as people under US hacking laws, but the companies that develop and test them could face civil claims if their systems gain unauthorised…

Design Arena Raises $7.9 Million to Expand Human Evaluation of AI Models

Intelligence, the company behind Design Arena, has raised $7.9 million in seed funding to expand its platform for evaluating AI-generated visual content through human feedback. Index Ventures led the round,…

OpenAI’s First Influencer Retreat Draws Backlash Over AI Concerns

OpenAI has faced online criticism after hosting its first reported influencer retreat at a luxury property in upstate New York. The event, called Summer Club, combined lessons about OpenAI products…

Apple Challenges Second UK Demand for Access to Encrypted iCloud Data

Apple has filed another legal challenge against a UK government order seeking access to encrypted iCloud backups belonging to British users. The company submitted its complaint to the Investigatory Powers…

Siri AI Arrives in iOS 27 Beta With Personal Context and App Controls

Apple has released Siri AI in the consumer beta of iOS 27, giving users access to the assistant’s long-delayed conversational and personal-context features. Siri can now search information stored across…

Outernet Turns Saved Social Media Posts Into Offline Activities

Outernet has launched an app that helps users save events, restaurants and other places they discover online, then organise them into activities they can complete offline. Co-founders Danielle Egan and…

WhatsApp Restores Accounts After Users Are Unexpectedly Placed Under Review

WhatsApp is restoring access to accounts that were unexpectedly blocked and placed under review, according to Meta. Users across several social media platforms reported being locked out of the messaging…

ChatGPT Accounts for Nearly 90% of US House AI Tool Spending

OpenAI’s ChatGPT accounted for nearly 90% of disclosed spending on standalone AI tools by US House offices, committees and institutional accounts during the year ending March 31, 2026. An analysis…

Base Power Raises $1 Billion and Launches Larger Home Battery

Base Power has raised $1 billion in Series D funding at a $13 billion post-money valuation as it expands its network of residential batteries. The Austin-based company also introduced Base…

Wispr Flow Prepares AI Meeting Notetaker With Transcripts and Summaries

Wispr Flow appears to be preparing an AI meeting notetaker that can generate transcripts, summaries, action items, speaker labels and other insights. The planned feature was disclosed through changes to…

Horizon3 Raises $250 Million at More Than $2 Billion Valuation

Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 has raised $250 million in Series E funding at a valuation exceeding $2 billion, more than tripling its $650 million valuation from roughly a year earlier. Returning…

Samsung Bans Smart TV Apps That Share Users’ Internet Connections

Samsung is banning smart TV apps that allow outside parties to route internet traffic through customers’ home or office connections. The policy change follows research from Norwegian cybersecurity company Mnemonic,…