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…
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…
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…
Omen AI Raises $31 Million to Monitor Data Centre Cooling Fluids
Omen AI has raised $31 million to expand a real-time fluid-monitoring system designed to prevent contamination and equipment failures inside liquid-cooled AI data centres. Nava Ventures led the Series A…
California Law Bans Louder Ads on Streaming Services Starting July 1
Streaming advertisements in California can no longer be louder than the programmes they accompany under a new law taking effect on July 1. The measure extends commercial-volume protections that already…
Canada’s Economy Remains Weak as Tariffs, Inflation and Youth Unemployment Add Pressure
Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised to build Canada into the strongest economy in the G7, but weak growth, rising living costs and continued dependence on the United States remain…
GTA 6’s Disc-Free Box Raises New Questions About Digital Game Ownership
Rockstar Games will sell Grand Theft Auto VI in stores without including a physical game disc, adding momentum to the industry’s long shift toward digital distribution. Customers buying the boxed…
AI Memory Demand Pushes Consumer Technology Prices Higher
Consumer electronics are becoming more expensive even when the products themselves are several years old, reversing the familiar pattern of ageing devices gradually falling in price. Apple and Microsoft are…
Polymarket to Refund Users After Third-Party Breach Leads to Crypto Theft
Polymarket has confirmed that hackers stole cryptocurrency from some users after compromising a third-party service connected to its prediction market platform. The company said the attackers used the vendor breach…