YouTube Raises Monetization Thresholds for New Creators Starting in 2027
YouTube is raising the requirements for new creators to earn advertising and subscription revenue through the YouTube Partner Program. Starting February 1, 2027, applicants will need 8,000 qualified watch hours…
Clicks Power Keyboard Brings Physical Keys and Wireless Charging to Smartphones
Clicks Technology has begun shipping its Power Keyboard, a slide-out Bluetooth keyboard designed to bring physical keys to smartphones without requiring a dedicated keyboard case. The MagSafe and Qi2-compatible accessory…
Meta Releases Muse Glimmer for Local AI Agents on Consumer Hardware
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight AI model designed to run autonomous agents locally on consumer hardware. The model can operate on a Mac or PC with a…
Sila Secures Conditional $1.4 Billion US Government Loan for Battery Material Expansion
US battery technology company Sila has secured a conditional loan commitment of up to $1.4 billion from the US government to expand domestic production of its silicon-carbon battery material. The…
Archer Aviation to Acquire Wisk Aero, Insitu, and SkyGrid From Boeing
Archer Aviation has agreed to acquire Boeing subsidiaries Wisk Aero, Insitu, and SkyGrid in exchange for newly issued Archer shares and additional warrants. Boeing will receive shares equal to 19.75%…
CEVA Logistics Cyberattack Disrupts Eight European Warehouses and Exposes Customer Data
CEVA Logistics has confirmed a cyberattack affecting eight warehouses in Europe, disrupting shipments and exposing personal information belonging to customers of several companies that use its logistics services. The affected…
Klaviyo Sign-Up Bug Exposed Customer Passwords to Third-Party Trackers
Marketing technology company Klaviyo inadvertently shared some new customers’ sign-up information, including passwords, with third-party advertising and technology companies because of a configuration error on its website. Klaviyo confirmed the…
Google Play Adds Venmo as Payment Option for Apps, Games, and Subscriptions
Google has added Venmo as a payment option on Google Play in the United States, allowing users to pay for apps, games, subscriptions, add-ons, and other digital content. The integration…
Historian Jill Lepore Warns Tech Companies Are Taking on Government Functions
Historian Jill Lepore argues that technology companies are increasingly taking on roles traditionally associated with democratic governments, a development she examines in her upcoming book, The Rise and Fall of…
AI Cybersecurity Tests Raise Concerns as Agents Escape Their Sandboxes
Recent cybersecurity evaluations involving models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Moonshot AI have exposed weaknesses in the environments used to test increasingly autonomous AI agents. In several cases, agents escaped…
noRecognition Patterns Aim to Disrupt AI Surveillance Detection
Cybersecurity researcher Bill Swearingen says he has developed computer-generated patterns designed to interfere with AI-powered surveillance systems, including some person detectors and license plate readers. His noRecognition project uses reinforcement…
King’s Cross Draws AI Startups as London Office Demand and Talent Competition Rise
King’s Cross has become one of London’s most sought-after locations for artificial intelligence companies, bringing startups, major AI labs and investors into a tightly concentrated area around the city’s Knowledge…
Amazon-Linked Texas Data Center Power Plant Could Emit 33 Million Tons of CO2 Annually
Amazon is investing in an on-site natural gas power plant for a planned data center in Pecos County, Texas, that could become the largest single source of carbon dioxide pollution…
OpenAI Acquires Presentation Startup NextSlide as Team Moves to ChatGPT
OpenAI acquired presentation startup NextSlide earlier this year, with the startup’s team now working on ChatGPT. Founder Ahmed Beshry disclosed the acquisition publicly several months after it took place, while…
X Replaces Creator Revenue Sharing With New Original Content Rewards Program
X is replacing its existing Revenue Sharing program with a new creator payment system called Original Content Rewards. The platform will stop accepting new applicants to Revenue Sharing, while current…
Kindle Scribe Colorsoft Combines Color Reading and Note-Taking at a $630 Starting Price
Amazon’s Kindle Scribe Colorsoft combines a large color e-reader with digital note-taking tools, targeting users who want to read, annotate and organize handwritten notes on one device. Starting at $629.99,…
OpenAI Pauses Some Astra Work After Model Reaches Critical Cybersecurity Threshold
OpenAI has suspended some internal work involving its upcoming Astra model after preliminary testing indicated that it may have reached the company’s highest cybersecurity capability threshold. The model showed enough…