Google launches a Gemini app for Android in India, supporting English and nine other languages, and says Gemini will roll out to its iOS app in the coming weeks
Vice President, Engineering, Gemini Experiences — Gemini, your AI assistant from Google, has had an exciting first year in India.
Sources: Apple is set to settle a long-running EU antitrust investigation over payments, after the EU accepted measures that Apple committed to in January 2024
Tech company willing to open mobile pay system to rivals in concessions that will help avoid antitrust fines from the bloc
Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developers publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024
Meta said today that it finally launched its much-awaited API for Threads so developers can build experiences around it.
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warns the EU's recent “upload moderation” proposal to detect CSAM “fundamentally undermines encryption” of messaging apps
A controversial European Union legislative proposal to scan the private messages of citizens in a bid …
A look at Apple's upcoming CarPlay updates, aiming to be “a design toolkit for automakers” comprising UI layers: local, overlay, remote, and punch-through
Apple's been talking about its next generation of CarPlay for two years now with very little to show for it …
ASUS VivoBook S 15 Copilot+ PC review: Snapdragon X Elite is incredible, all day battery life, gorgeous 15.6" OLED screen, and $1,299 for 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite elevates this Windows laptop from a good all-rounder to a great one.
Margrethe Vestager says Apple has a number of “very serious” issues under the EU's DMA, and the EU will reveal conclusions of its investigation “hopefully soon”
WATCH NOW — Apple has a number of “very serious” issues under the European Union's sweeping rules aimed …
Social media creators say earning a decent, reliable income is getting harder, as platforms pay less for popular posts and brands get pickier about partnerships
Platforms are paying less for popular posts, brands are pickier about partnerships and a possible TikTok ban looms
Stablecoin provider Tether announces a synthetic dollar backed by gold that will trade as aUSDT via smart contracts on the Ethereum Mainnet blockchain
- Alloy by Tether designed to track dollar with gold collateral — Tether Gold has a $573 million market capitalization
Adobe updates Acrobat with Firefly-powered AI image generation, AI Assistant supporting analysis of multiple documents, including non-PDF files, and more
Acrobat's AI Assistant is getting more useful, just months after its debut. — • — TL;DR
Amazon Labor Union members vote to join forces with the 1.3M-member Teamsters union; ALU President Christian Smalls says Teamsters allocated $8M for organizing
An affiliation agreement between the Amazon Labor Union and the 1.3 million-member Teamsters signals an escalation in challenging the online retailer.
Xreal unveils the $199+ Beam Pro, a 6.5-inch device that powers Xreal's glasses, runs Android 14-based NebulaOS, uses a Snapdragon chip, and has two USB-C ports
Xreal has made a name for itself with some surprisingly nice-looking augmented reality glasses, which put a display in front …
Source: Apple told at least one supplier it has suspended work on the next Apple Vision Pro; sources: it's still aiming to debut a cheaper model by end of 2025
Apple has told at least one supplier that it has suspended work on its next high-end Vision headset, an employee at a manufacturer …
Autonomous trucking startup Waabi raised a $200M Series B led by Uber and Khosla Ventures, after an $83.5M Series A in 2021, and aims for a full launch in 2025
Waabi has raised $200 million in a Series B funding round, led by existing investors Uber Technologies (UBER.N) and Khosla Ventures …
A study of 10 chatbots, including from Perplexity and OpenAI, shows how often they repeat Russian disinfo and cite fugitive John Dougan's fake local news sites
- Entering 57 prompts into 10 leading chatbots, NewsGuard found they spread Russian disinformation narratives 32% of the time …
The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming “consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing” plan terms
Amid a flurry of tech news yesterday … Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central : US government sues Adobe for ‘deceptive’ business tactics and hiding steep subscription cancellation charges to ‘trap’ its custo...
Maryland-based Huntress, an SMB-focused managed security platform, raised a $150M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech, and Sapphire at a $1.5B+ valuation
Cash infusion will go toward new product development for small businesses, CEO says — Cybersecurity provider Huntress …
Apple says it will no longer offer Apple Pay Later, the BNPL service launched in the US in 2023, and will focus on installment loan features coming in 2024
what you need to know Ann Resuma / International Business Times : Apple Pay Later Ceases To Offer Purchases On Installment In US Will Shanklin / Engadget : Apple Pay Later is dead, long live Affirm lo...
Q&A with Tubi CEO Anjali Sud, who joined from Vimeo in September 2023, on the streaming industry, working within Fox, subscription fatigue, copyright, and more
TV isn't just competing with Netflix for your time — it needs to beat TikTok, too. … Today, I'm talking with Anjali Sud, the CEO of Tubi.
Logitech unveils the MX Ink, a $130 stylus coming in September for the Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and “future headsets”, the Quest's first third-party input device
Some Google users, frustrated by the results, turn to Reddit as a search alternative; a weeklong test finds Reddit is best for product recommendations and more
Googling isn't what it used to be — Frustrated by their Google searches, people are funneling their queries to a site that isn't a search engine at all: Reddit.
Sources: Huawei is considering taking a cut of in-app purchases on HarmonyOS and has discussed a ~20% fee with game developers, below Apple's and Google's 30%
- Chinese firm is looking at a lower fee structure than Apple — Huawei's profit surged 564% as it reclaimed premium share
Kuo: the Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and have a bigger screen, from 41mm to 45mm and 45mm to 49mm; Apple will use 3D printing to make some components
here's what we know Kuo / iClarified : Apple Watch Series 10 to Feature Significantly Larger Display, Thinner Design [Kuo] Katie Bartlett / CNBC : Apple analyst Kuo says new Apple Watch will include l...
YouTube is testing Notes, an experimental crowdsourced tool to let users add context to videos, similar to X's Community Notes, on mobile in the US in English
Inside Snapchat's teen opioid crisis: law-enforcement sources and parents allege that Snap has helped fuel a US overdose epidemic via fake pills sold online
and the driver of that plague, per the cops and feds I talked to, was fake pills sold online. …
Sources: Shein CEO Xu Yangtian has deliberately kept a low profile for fear of attracting unwanted public attention; Shein has never published any photos of him
- Even by the standards of Chinese tech business leaders, the lack of public information about Xu Yangtian is unusual
London-based SurrealDB, which helps developers consolidate their databases, raised $20M led by FirstMark and Georgian, taking its total funding to $26M
Brothers Tobie Morgan Hitchcock and Jaime Hitchcock spent years building cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems together …
Microsoft says Windows 11 version 24H2, now in the Release Preview Channel, is “targeting Copilot+ PCs devices” and devices previously using Insider 24H2 builds
https://www.pcworld.com/... Additionally the Copilot+ PCs now have an update which enables the other AI features. This wasn't available until a few hours ago, hence the lack of unsupervised reviews ...
Coinbase debuts “pre-launch markets” to let International and Advanced users outside of the US, the UK, and Canada trade tokens before they hit spot exchanges
Overview — Pre-launch markets allow users … Hongji Feng / Cryptonews : Coinbase International Exchange and Advanced Debut Pre-Launch Markets Kelvin Munene / The Crypto Times : Coinbase Rolls Out Pre...
Constructor, which provides an AI-powered product discovery and search service for e-commerce companies, raised a $25M Series B at a $550M valuation
Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News :
A look at Shein's efforts to diversify away from fast fashion and improve customer loyalty, as its marketplace struggles to get third-party merchants to sign up
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times :
Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha, a model to generate high-quality, highly realistic 10-second-long video clips; it's unclear if it will come to a free or paid tier
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat :
Cambridge, UK-based CuspAI, which is developing AI-powered tech for designing new materials, raised a $30M seed and adds Geoffrey Hinton to its advisory board
now he has emerged out of stealth to back a startup promising to use AI for carbon capture FinSMEs : CuspAI Raises $30M in Seed Funding Vigneshwar Ravichandran / Silicon Canals : Cambridge-based CuspA...
Mandiant: up to 10 companies breached in a campaign targeting Snowflake customers have been extorted with stolen data and face ransom demands from $300K to $5M
Bloomberg :
Blackstone plans to acquire Japanese digital romance comic provider Infocom in a $1.7B deal, in its biggest private equity transaction in Japan to date
Lisa Du / Bloomberg :
Finbourne, which helps financial companies organize and use their data in AI and other models, raised a £55M Series B at a valuation just over £280M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Google DeepMind is building AI tech to take raw pixels of videos and make synced soundtracks; the tech is not convincing, and Google has no public release plans
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Down-ballot US campaigns are experimenting with AI models, which can help them save money and time, while also adding to fears about the threats of deepfakes
Associated Press : X: @merica and @garanceburke X: Dan Merica / @merica : Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword for downballot campaigns. The tech can help them save money and time. But sma...
Real-time data analytics startup Tinybird raised a $30M Series B, at a “significantly higher” valuation than its $37M Series A; source: it's now valued at $240M
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch :
Finaloop, which offers accounting tools to e-commerce businesses, raised a $35M Series A led by Lightspeed and says its customer base grew 400% in the last year
Uber says “tens of thousands of riders” in Phoenix have matched with a “Waymo (AI) driver” and have given “a nearly 4.9 average star rating” since the launch
A look at India's quick commerce market, an important distribution channel for food brands, as Zepto, Blinkit, and Swiggy's Instamart expand beyond groceries
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
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