Google Opens $899 Googlebook Preorders With Gemini Built Into the Laptop Experience
Google has opened preorders for its new Googlebook, an $899 laptop designed around Gemini AI and a desktop version of Android rather than traditional ChromeOS. First introduced in May, the…
Corridor Raises $25 Million to Bring AI Agents to Small-Business Health Benefits
Corridor has raised $25 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures to build an AI-powered health benefits brokerage for small businesses. The startup pairs human advisors with AI…
World Model Startups Keep Their Commercial Plans Quiet as Competition Builds
AI companies developing world models are attracting substantial funding while revealing relatively little about how they plan to turn the technology into businesses. Two prominent players, Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs…
ScrollEd Turns Textbooks Into TikTok-Style Learning Feeds
ScrollEd is building an educational app that converts textbooks, PDFs and other text files into a short-form vertical feed combining AI-generated video, audio, text and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup…
California Adds Fines for Influencers Who Fail to Disclose Paid Political Posts
California has strengthened its rules for paid political content on social media, allowing regulators to fine influencers who fail to disclose that a campaign paid them to support or oppose…
Repeat Founders Bet on Offline Connection as Technology Reshapes Social Life
Several experienced founders are building new companies around a shared idea: using products, physical spaces and activities to get people spending more time together offline. Brynn Putnam, Tristan Walker, Andy…
Flock Safety Offers Voluntary Buyouts as Privacy Backlash Pressures Business
Flock Safety is offering voluntary severance packages to employees as the surveillance technology company faces growing criticism of its license plate recognition network and loses government customers. The company reportedly…
Gemini Breached Three Companies During AI Security Testing
Google’s Gemini autonomously accessed protected systems belonging to three real companies while undergoing cybersecurity testing, according to The Wall Street Journal. The incidents are believed to be Gemini’s first known…
U.S. Navy Signals Five Technology Priorities as It Seeks More Commercial Suppliers
The U.S. Navy is giving startups and investors a clearer view of the technologies it expects to buy over the next several years, as it tries to rely more heavily…
Petlibro Granary 2 Adds AI Cameras and Food Intake Tracking to Smart Feeders
Petlibro has expanded its automatic dry-food feeder lineup with the Granary 2 series, adding built-in scales, eating-behavior tracking and, on some models, AI-powered cameras that can recognize individual pets. The…
AI Safety Debate Blurs the Line Between Documented Risks and Speculation
Recent comments from AI researchers and technology figures are highlighting a growing problem in the safety debate: documented examples of unexpected model behavior are increasingly appearing alongside scenarios that remain…
India Orders Caller-ID Apps to Share Spam Reports With Telecom Operators
India has expanded its anti-spam rules to require caller-ID and call-management apps to share user-submitted spam reports with telecom operators, prompting Truecaller to argue that the requirement is anti-competitive. The…
AI Actress Tilly Norwood Malfunctions During Press Tour for Misaligned
AI-generated performer Tilly Norwood has encountered repeated problems during a large press campaign organized by Particle6, including an interview in which the digital character abruptly switched to Chinese while answering…
Automattic Reviews $8.15 Million Executive Severance Deals Signed During Matt Mullenweg’s Brief Leave
Automattic is reviewing the legal status of executive severance agreements worth a combined $8.15 million after interim CEO Mark Davies and Chief Legal Officer Andy Missan approved compensation packages for…
Wayve Appoints Former Waymo Finance Chief Elisa de Martel As CFO
Autonomous driving startup Wayve has appointed former Waymo executive Elisa de Martel as its new chief financial officer as the company prepares to expand the deployment of its automated driving…
ShinyHunters Publishes Stolen Florida Vehicle And Driver Records After Ransom Demand Fails
The ShinyHunters hacking group has published hundreds of thousands of files taken from a Florida state database containing vehicle and driver-related information after the state agency declined to meet the…
Google Opens Google Home To AI Agents Through New MCP Server Access
Google has begun rolling out early access to a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Google Home, allowing compatible AI agents to interact with smart home devices and access device…
Anthropic Unifies Claude Interface And Adds Presentation And Document Creation Tools
Anthropic is rolling out a redesigned Claude experience that combines chat, Cowork, and Artifacts into a single interface, aiming to reduce confusion over which feature users should select for different…