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Amazon's New AI Product Images Have Shoppers Scratching Their Heads

Amazon is rolling out AI-generated product images in its shopping app, and the move is raising eyebrows among retail observers who question why a massive e-commerce platform would show shoppers fake photos instead of real ones. Announced on Wednesday, the new feature displays syn

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Startups Jun 3

Ex-Goldman, Meta founders raise $3M for voice AI in overlooked markets

AethexAI, a voice AI startup focused on underserved markets in Africa and the Middle East, has closed a $3 million pre-seed round led by 4DX

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Tools Jun 2

Microsoft Unveils Scout, an OpenClaw-Inspired AI Assistant for Microsoft 365

Microsoft has unveiled Scout, a new AI personal assistant built on the OpenClaw framework, designed to bring autonomous agent capabilities t

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Tools Jun 2

Microsoft's ASSERT Lets Devs Test AI Behavior with Plain English

Microsoft on Tuesday introduced ASSERT, an open-source framework designed to help developers test whether AI systems behave correctly for th

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Industry Jun 2

Scorsese, at 82, becomes the most unlikely Hollywood voice for AI

Legendary director Martin Scorsese has joined forces with Black Forest Labs, the German AI image-generation startup, as both a partner and a

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Startups Jun 2

Cyera eyes $12B valuation at 80x ARR multiple despite operating losses

Cyera, the AI-focused data security startup founded in 2021, is closing a funding round of at least $300 million led by Evolution Equity Par

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Industry Jun 2

Uber Exhausts Yearly AI Budget in 4 Months, Caps Employee Spending

Uber has rolled out strict internal spending limits on AI tools after the ridesharing company burned through its entire annual artificial in

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Tools Jun 2

Microsoft gives devs more control over AI agent behavior

Microsoft is rolling out a new open-source framework called Agent Control Specification (ACS), designed to give developers more precise over

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Regulation Jun 2

Class Action Targets Amazon's Ring Facial Recognition Feature

Amazon was hit with a class action lawsuit on Monday over its Ring doorbell cameras' "Familiar Faces" feature, which uses AI to identify peo

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Models Jun 1

Gemini Spark delivers on Google's demo, but costs and privacy questions linger

Google's new AI agent, Gemini Spark, is making waves as a tool that can autonomously handle multi-step tasks in the background, but early ha

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Tools Jun 1

Nvidia's RTX Spark: Windows' M1 Moment Arrives—But It'll Cost You

Nvidia has officially entered the consumer laptop processor market with its RTX Spark chip, drawing immediate comparisons to Apple's game-ch

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Regulation Jun 1

Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT fueled violence

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a first-of-its-kind state lawsuit on Monday against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing th

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Industry Jun 1

SpaceX's IPO Filing Flags Water Access as a Risk Factor

SpaceX has added a new concern to the risk factors listed in its IPO filing: access to water. The amended prospectus, filed Monday and repor

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Industry Jun 1

Alphabet Raises $80B to Fuel Massive AI Expansion

Alphabet is launching an $80 billion stock offering to fund a major expansion of its artificial intelligence capabilities. The Google parent

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Industry Jun 1

Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP

Nvidia unveiled its RTX Spark "superchip" at Computex in Taipei on Sunday, marking the company's aggressive push into the $200 billion CPU m

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Industry Jun 1

Claude AI Maker Anthropic Files for IPO, Eyes Wall Street Debut

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot, has taken the first formal step toward going public. The company a

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Startups Jun 1

This AI weather startup is out-forecasting government agencies

WindBorne Systems, a startup founded by Stanford students in 2019, released its WeatherMesh 6 AI weather forecasting model on June 1, 2026,

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Regulation May 31

Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is taking on a new fight: demanding greater transparency from data center operators. The activist, wh

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Industry May 31

Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis

Box founder Aaron Levie sparked widespread discussion this week with a social media post describing tech CEOs as "uniquely prone to AI psych

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Tools May 31

I Tried the AI Weed Vaporizer That Pays You in Bitcoin

A London-based Verge reporter spent weeks investigating Gudtrip, a weed vaporizer that promises users Bitcoin rewards for smoking. Robert Ha

The Verge
Industry May 30

AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk

A digital deception campaign is exploiting AI technology to create fake Black influencers who emotionally manipulate viewers into purchasing

The Verge
Startups May 30

How one founder’s bet on ‘the old school web’ is paying off

In 2022, Craig Campbell turned down investor funding to start a website instead of chasing the AI boom that was swallowing up the tech indus

The Verge
Industry May 30

As the browser wars heat up, here are the hottest alternatives to Chrome and Safari in 2026

Google Chrome and Apple's Safari continue to dominate the browser market in 2026, but a new wave of competitors is challenging their suprema

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Industry May 30

SoftBank says it will invest up to €75 billion to build French data centers

SoftBank Group has unveiled plans to invest up to €75 billion (approximately $87 billion) to expand data center capacity in France. The Japa

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Tools May 30

I put Google’s 24/7 AI assistant Gemini Spark to work, and it’s actually pretty useful

Google's new Gemini Spark assistant runs around the clock in the cloud, allowing users to offload their digital tasks without keeping their

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Tools May 30

What a Joke': Developers Rage Over Copilot's New Token Billing

GitHub Copilot is shifting to a token-based billing system starting June 1, replacing its flat subscription model with a pay-per-usage appro

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Tools May 30

Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

Meta is working on an AI-powered wearable device that users can wear as a pendant, according to an internal memo reviewed by The Information

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Industry May 29

Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans

Cognition has secured $1 billion in funding at a $26 billion valuation, making the two-year-old startup one of the most valuable AI companie

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Industry May 29

Tech companies desperately want to film you doing chores

A startup called Shift is offering to clean New Yorkers' homes for free — with one condition. The company wants to record everything its cle

The Verge
Industry May 29

Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them

In February 2026, AI research lab METR encountered a significant obstacle while attempting to update earlier research on AI coding productiv

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