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…
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…
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…
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 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 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 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 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 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…
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…
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 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 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 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 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…