Grok gains a canvas-like tool for creating docs and apps

Grok gains a canvas-like tool for creating docs and apps

Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has gained a canvas-like feature for editing and creating documents and basic apps. Called ...
Skullcandy’s new Method 360 ANC earbuds have been tuned by Bose

Skullcandy’s new Method 360 ANC earbuds have been tuned by Bose

Skullcandy just revealed a new pair of wireless earbuds, the Method 360 ANC. Interestingly, the company has teamed up with rival headphone-maker ...
Figma, ignores the fear, files paperwork for an IPO

Figma, ignores the fear, files paperwork for an IPO

Design software startup Figma announced Tuesday it has filed its confidential paperwork for an IPO. We won’t know more until that paperwork ...
Telli, a YC alum, raises pre-seed funding for its an AI voice agents

Telli, a YC alum, raises pre-seed funding for its an AI voice agents

Former Y Combinator startup telli is helping companies alleviate the bottleneck that occurs when a high-volume of customers try to, for example, book ...
TikTok takes on Google Maps by surfacing reviews in the comments tab

TikTok takes on Google Maps by surfacing reviews in the comments tab

As TikTok continues to build out its search experience, the social network is now surfacing reviews for select places right within the comments tab ...

How to watch Kia's New York International Auto Show presentation on April 16

Kia has teased that it will have a trio of announcements at the 2025 New York International Auto Show. The car company's presentation is scheduled for 10AM ET on April 16. Luckily for those gearheads who want to know what's next for the brand, Kia will have a livestream of its showcase. The reveal will be hosted live on YouTube, and it's also ...
Indian ride-hailing startup BluSmart swept up in Gensol investigation alleging misuse of EV loans

Indian ride-hailing startup BluSmart swept up in Gensol investigation alleging misuse of EV loans

India’s market regulator launched a probe Tuesday into Gensol Engineering after finding alleged misuse of electric vehicle loans. BluSmart, a ...
Internet cesspit 4chan apparently hacked, mostly unreachable since Monday night

Internet cesspit 4chan apparently hacked, mostly unreachable since Monday night

Early info is unreliable, but the site has been mostly unavailable for hours.
OpenAI hires team behind GV-backed AI eval platform Context.ai

OpenAI hires team behind GV-backed AI eval platform Context.ai

Context.ai, a startup building evaluations and analytics for AI models, announced Tuesday that its co-founders will join OpenAI.  Context.ai plans to ...
Anthropic forms a new team to grow its AWS business

Anthropic forms a new team to grow its AWS business

In a sign of Anthropic’s increasingly cosy relationship with Amazon, Anthropic has formed a new team to recruit AWS customers to use its AI ...
When AI reasoning goes wrong: Microsoft Research shows more tokens can mean more problems

When AI reasoning goes wrong: Microsoft Research shows more tokens can mean more problems

Not all AI scaling strategies are equal. Longer reasoning chains are not sign of higher intelligence. More compute isn't always the answer.

NVIDIA says the US has put export restrictions on H20 AI chips

According to an SEC filing from NVIDIA, the US government now requires companies to obtain a license to export H20 integrated circuits and any other products that achieve the same performance benchmarks. The filing states that "the license requirement addresses the risk that the covered products may be used in, or diverted to, a ...

Google is retiring country-specific domains for search

Google announced today that it will no longer be using country code top level domains for searches. Instead, all search services will happen on the google.com URL and local results will be delivered automatically. For example, that means users in the UK will no longer see google.co.uk in their browser's address bar. Google URLs with ...
For security, Android phones will now auto-reboot after three days

For security, Android phones will now auto-reboot after three days

The update comes months after Apple pushed its own “inactivity reboot” feature.
TikTok takes on Google Maps by surfacing reviews in the comments tab

TikTok takes on Google Maps by surfacing reviews in the comments tab

As TikTok continues to build out its search experience, the social network is now surfacing reviews for select places right within the comments tab ...
OpenAI says it may ‘adjust’ its safety requirements if a rival lab releases ‘high-risk’ AI

OpenAI says it may ‘adjust’ its safety requirements if a rival lab releases ‘high-risk’ AI

In an update to its Preparedness Framework, the internal framework OpenAI uses to decide whether AI models are safe and what safeguards, if any, are ...

Someone hacked Silicon Valley crosswalks to spoof Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk

Whether in Ancient Greek parodies, Shakespeare's subtle jabs at the haughty upper class or Jon Stewart's takedowns of the latest Washington absurdities, humor can be a razor-edged weapon that shapes public opinion. Last weekend, we were reminded again of comedy's ability to strike at the rich and powerful when someone hacked Silicon ...
Netflix plans to bring streaming into the $1 trillion club by 2030

Netflix plans to bring streaming into the $1 trillion club by 2030

Netflix aims to double its revenue over the next five years, WSJ reports.
Google bets on geothermal to power data centers in Taiwan

Google bets on geothermal to power data centers in Taiwan

Swedish company Baseload Capital is developing the project.

Comcast rolls out a five-year price guarantee with plenty of fine print

With America's long-term (and even short-term) economic prospects shifting on Eric Cartman-like whims, some internet providers have begun offering multi-year price guarantees to provide a little stability amid the chaos. A couple of weeks after Verizon introduced a three-year price lock, Comcast has followed suit with a five-year pricing ...
The perils of Trump

The perils of Trump's chips strategy: the US will struggle to take on Asia

America is trying to create a chip industry through isolation and protectionism, when what allowed it to emerge in Asia is the opposite: collaboration
US government imposes license requirement on Nvidia H20 exports

US government imposes license requirement on Nvidia H20 exports

Semiconductor giant Nvidia is facing unexpected new U.S. export controls on its H20 chips. In a filing Tuesday, Nvidia said it was informed by the ...
Sam Altman at TED 2025: Inside the most uncomfortable — and important — AI interview of the year

Sam Altman at TED 2025: Inside the most uncomfortable — and important — AI interview of the year

At TED 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced tough questions on AI ethics, artist compensation, and the risks of autonomous agents in a tense interview ...

Mark Zuckerberg predicted Meta's antitrust trial in a 2018 email

In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg floated the idea of spinning out Instagram, one of the remedies the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will likely seek in Meta's antitrust trial that began this week. CNBC reported on Tuesday that the comments from an email thread with executives came to light in Washington, DC.

"I'm beginning to wonder whether ...
Stop doomscrolling and watch the ‘Great Moose Migration’ livestream

Stop doomscrolling and watch the ‘Great Moose Migration’ livestream

You could say that TikTok is ruining our attention spans, and yet, viewers around the world are tuning in to watch a monotonous livestream from a ...
Google’s Veo 2 generative video creator is coming to Gemini

Google’s Veo 2 generative video creator is coming to Gemini

Video generation starts rolling out today for Gemini Advanced subscribers.
Figma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term ‘Dev Mode’

Figma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term ‘Dev Mode’

We may be witnessing the makings of a new tech industry feud between competitors. Figma has sent a cease-and-desist letter to popular no-code AI ...

Antrhopic's Claude can now read your emails

Anthropic announced that its Claude AI can integrate with Google Workspace. This tie-in allows the AI assistant to access any information in Gmail, Google Documents and Google Calendar. Enterprise-level customers even get a special cataloguing option for Documents that aims to offer even better speed and accuracy when retrieving ...

OpenAI is apparently making a social network

It looks like OpenAI is building its own X-like social media network, according to a report by The Verge. We don’t have many specifics, but we do know there’s an internal prototype that adds a social feed to ChatGPT’s image generation tool.

It remains unclear if OpenAI will launch this social network as a standalone ...
Publishing platform Medium says it’s sticking with DEI

Publishing platform Medium says it’s sticking with DEI

Publishing platform Medium says it’s still committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), even as many other U.S. tech companies have ...