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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 computer powered on. CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted this distinction during the product's debut at Go

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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

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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

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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 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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Industry May 29

What happens when companies become too AI-pilled?

Box founder Aaron Levie has coined the term "AI psychosis" to describe a troubling pattern in corporate America: the executives making decis

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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

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Startups May 29

After Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M

Groq, the AI chip startup, is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investors as it pushes deeper into the infere

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Startups May 29

After Nvidia’s $20B not-aqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M

AI chip startup Groq is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investor base, according to sources cited by Axios.

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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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Startups May 29

This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots

AI training startup Shift is offering free home cleaning services, but customers will have to accept a small trade-off: cameras mounted on c

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Industry May 29

Glean’s top line crosses $300M as AI budget-cutting becomes its major selling point

Glean, the enterprise AI search platform sometimes called "the Google for work," has hit $300 million in annual recurring revenue, tripling

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Industry May 28

The internet is being rebuilt for machines

Amazon Web Services has launched a new version of OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector database specifically designed fo

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Industry May 28

Asana acquires no-code agent-builder StackAI

Asana has purchased StackAI, a no-code agent-building platform, for $75 million as part of its push to become an AI-first workplace platform

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Startups May 28

Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO

Anthropic has closed a massive $65 billion funding round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, positioning the AI company for what could b

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Industry May 28

Just like gold and oil, we’ll soon be able to trade AI token futures

China's Shanghai Futures Exchange is developing a derivatives market specifically for AI tokens, joining CME Group and the Intercontinental

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Models May 28

Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new ‘dynamic workflow’ tool

Anthropic has launched Opus 4.8, the latest iteration of its flagship AI model, marking the fastest upgrade cycle in the company's recent hi

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Tools May 28

YouTube will let you ask AI to make a custom video feed

YouTube is rolling out a new AI-powered feature that generates personalized video feeds based on text descriptions of what viewers want to w

The Verge
Tools May 28

Vertu wants CEOs to run companies from an AI foldable starting at $6,880

Vertu, the luxury smartphone maker headquartered in Hong Kong, has unveiled the Alphafold, a foldable device designed specifically for busin

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Models May 28

Why Google’s AI can’t spell Google (or anything else)

Google's AI Overview feature is making elementary spelling mistakes that have become the subject of ridicule online. The artificial intellig

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Industry May 27

In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips

Snowflake has committed $6 billion over five years to Amazon Web Services in a new cloud infrastructure agreement, the companies revealed We

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Industry May 27

Payroll startup Remote says it grew revenue 50% per employee without adding headcount

Remote, a seven-year-old payroll company headquartered in Amsterdam, announced it has crossed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and a

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Industry May 27

Your SEO strategy is optimized for a search engine that no longer exists.

Google's annual developer conference I/O made it clear that AI-generated responses have taken over the front page of search results, and mos

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Industry May 27

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans

Meta is expanding its subscription business with new monthly plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp users worldwide. The company announ

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Startups May 27

AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation

Cognition, the startup behind the autonomous AI software engineer Devin, has secured over $1 billion in new funding at a $25 billion pre-mon

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Industry May 27

Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical may have been partially written by artificial intelligence. A detailed analysis by researcher Linch Zhang, s

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Industry May 26

DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

DuckDuckGo has seen a significant boost in user adoption following Google's announcement of major changes to its search engine. The privacy-

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Startups May 26

OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

OpenRouter, an AI gateway startup founded in 2023, has secured $113 million in Series B funding led by CapitalG, Alphabet's growth venture f

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Startups May 26

This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots

Human Archive, a Silicon Valley-based startup, has raised $8.2 million in seed funding to pursue an unconventional strategy: using workers f

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Industry May 26

Universal Music Group and TikTok renew agreement to combat unauthorized AI music

Universal Music Group (UMG) and TikTok have renewed their licensing agreement with a focus on removing unauthorized AI-generated music from

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