Microsoft and Meta unveil the $399 Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition, a bundle with the $299 Meta Quest 3S in a new color, available in “extremely limited” quantities
Last year, Microsoft revealed it was working on an Xbox edition Quest VR headset with Meta of Facebook fame.
Sources: Microsoft is planning a round of Xbox layoffs next week, with managers expecting substantial cuts, the fourth big layoff at Xbox in the past 18 months
The video-game division's latest round of layoffs is expected next week … Managers within Xbox are expecting substantial cuts across …
A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library used for training was not
Context: Last August, book authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson filed a copyright infringement class action …
The NHTSA says it is investigating incidents of Tesla's robotaxis apparently violating traffic laws, like by entering opposite lanes, as seen on social media
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is aware of the incidents that were captured in videos posted on social media …
The UK CMA proposes to designate Google with “strategic market status” in general search and search advertising under the new Digital Markets Competition Regime
Big Tech giant slams Competition and Markets Authority's plan as ‘punitive’ and risk to economic growth
Waymo launches robotaxis in Atlanta available exclusively in Uber's app, covering a 65-square-mile area excluding highways, after launching in Austin on March 4
Atlanta is the second city to host Uber and Waymo's burgeoning partnership. … Uber customers in Atlanta now have the option …
Russia releases four REvil members who were convicted for payment card fraud; the Kremlin's 2022 crackdown on REvil followed a call between Biden and Putin
A Russian court sentenced several members of the notorious REvil ransomware gang to five years in prison but let them walk free right …
Tesla's Austin robotaxi service gets a limited launch, with ~10 Model Y vehicles and safety drivers; Elon Musk says initial users will pay “a $4.20 flat fee”
or want to know—about Tesla's robotaxi service David Pierce / The Verge : Tesla's robotaxi reality check Richard Brack / Austin American-Statesman : Tesla robotaxis begin rolling in Austin, but only f...
The Linux Foundation unveils the Agent2Agent project, with founding members including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft; Google donated the protocol spec and SDKs
Today at Open Source Summit North America, the Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Agent2Agent project with Amazon Web Services …
Amazon says it plans to bring same-day or next-day delivery to “tens of millions” of people who live “in more than 4,000” smaller US towns by the end of 2026
The company is bringing faster delivery to thousands of small towns and rural communities.
A look at 2025's AI models and what's next: OpenAI's o3 is a technical breakthrough, agents will improve randomly and in leaps, but scaling parameters will slow
Summer is always a slow time for the tech industry. OpenAI seems fully in line with this, with their open model “[taking] …
Digital Asset, which builds the Canton Network, an open-source public blockchain for regulated financial institutions, raised $135M co-led by DRW and Tradeweb
Crypto company Digital Asset said Tuesday that it's netted $135 million in funding from a raft of major names in banking and finance.
Interviews with 24+ Microsoft customers and salespeople show that Microsoft is struggling to sell Copilot to enterprises as many of their employees want ChatGPT
Microsoft is struggling to sell its Copilot AI assistant to corporations because many of their employees want ChatGPT.
A look at the AI landscape and its impact on Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, as well as the foundation model makers, including OpenAI and Anthropic
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Amazon says it plans to invest £40B in the UK economy over the next three years, including opening four new warehouses; Amazon invested £12B+ in the UK in 2023
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed a three-year program by Amazon.com Inc. to invest £40 billion …
Google rolls out historical Street View imagery on Google Earth as the service turns 20, and says pro US users can access AI insights, like tree canopy coverage
Google announced on Tuesday that you can now access historical Street View imagery on Google Earth.
Inside Amazon's Indiana data center complex: built for Anthropic with plans for ~30 centers, consuming 2.2GW of power and millions of gallons of water per year
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up. Forums: r/environment Forums: r/environment :...
Google releases a new Gemini Robotics On-Device model with an SDK and says the vision language action model can adapt to new tasks in 50 to 100 demonstrations
We sometimes call chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT “robots,” but generative AI is also playing a growing role in real, physical robots.
Researchers: “chain of thought” techniques used by Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI show inconsistencies where chatbot answers contradict the stated reasoning
Anthropic, Google and OpenAI deploy ‘chains of thought’ to better understand the operations of AI systems Bluesky: @eicathomefinn and @nataliegreenpeer . Forums: Slashdot Bluesky: Margot Finn / @eicat...
Court filings from in-ear hardware device startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's efforts to build a mass-market AI device
From iyO's home page: … Like I wrote yesterday, I'd never heard of iyO before. Alex Hughes / Tom's Guide : OpenAI court filings just revealed new details on AI device with Jony Ive Mahnoor Faisal / La...
Fiserv aims to launch its own stablecoin by the end of 2025 and partners with PayPal and Circle to develop new products for financial institutions and merchants
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Sources: in 2024, OpenAI considered document collaboration features but lacked the staff to create them, but has since made some unreleased collaboration tools
OpenAI has been gearing up to take on Google and Microsoft with features that let people collaborate on documents and communicate via chat …
Microsoft says it is testing a new aggregated gaming library in the Xbox PC app for Windows 11 with Xbox Insiders, integrating “leading PC storefronts”
150 Million Users Get Free Upgrade Steve Wright / Stevivor : Xbox PC app to gather all your game libraries in one place Brad Bennett / MobileSyrup : The Xbox app on PC can now backdoor into Steam game...
Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for July 9 at 10am ET in Brooklyn, where AI updates, the Galaxy Z Fold 7, and Galaxy Z Flip 7 are expected
and it's when the ‘Ultra Unfolds’ Alex Perry / Mashable : Samsung poised to release new foldables at July 9 Unpacked event Iyaz Akhtar / PCMag : Next Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Set for July 9: Expect New...
Microsoft details Mu, an on-device small language model used in Copilot+ PCs to power the agent in Settings, mapping natural language queries to function calls
meet Mu, the compact AI model transforming Settings on your PC Rishaj Upadhyay / Windows Report : Microsoft brings Mu, a fast on-device AI, to Windows 11 Settings Business Today : Microsoft launches M...
Elliptic: Telegram-based crypto scam marketplaces like Tudou Guarantee have almost entirely filled the void left by Telegram banning the two biggest a month ago
Then it watched those markets rebuild to their previous size and has done nothing to stop them. — https://www.wired.com/... X: @elliptic : 🚨 Telegram dark markets expand to fill the gap left by Huio...
Abridge, which uses AI to automate doctors' notetaking, raised $300M led by a16z at a $5.3B valuation, after raising $250M at a $2.75B valuation in February
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Samsung unveils the Exynos 2500 mobile chipset built on its 3nm GAA node, with a 10-core ARM CPU, an AMD RDNA 3-based GPU, and up to 59 TOPS of NPU performance
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Q&A with Hinge CEO Justin McLeod on why AI companionship is like junk food, plans for a Hinge mobile payment system to avoid Apple's App Store fees, and more
but it could coach users along the way Forums: r/technology : Hinge CEO Justin McLeod says dating AI chatbots is ‘playing with fire’ BeauHD / Slashdot : Hinge CEO Says Dating AI Chatbots Is ‘Playing W...
Q&A with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on joining US Detachment 201, the US Army's tech challenges, the “vibe shift” in Silicon Valley's military relations, and more
Shares How People At Facebook-Parent Reacted X: Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : .@boztank to @PirateWires: “The degree to which people have been comfortable publicly supporting the military has changed ...
Salesforce launches Agentforce 3 with an observability tool called Command Center and MCP support, and says 8,000 customers have signed up to deploy Agentforce
securely, reliably, and at scale. Empower teams to build trustworthy Agents for the AI era. https://www.agentforce.com/ ❤️🤖 [video] Marc Benioff / @benioff : Agentforce 3 is here — Humans + Agents, un...
Eventual, which develops Daft, a Python-native open-source data processing engine, raised a $7.5M seed led by CRV and a $20M Series A led by Felicis Ventures
When Eventual founders Sammy Sidhu and Jay Chia were working as software engineers at Lyft's autonomous vehicle program …
Internal memo: Goldman Sachs launches a generative AI assistant companywide to boost productivity, and says ~10K employees are already using the GS AI Assistant
fueling fears that ‘rise of the machines’ could hit jobs PYMNTS.com : Goldman Sachs Expands Availability of AI Assistant Across Firm LinkedIn: Sonia Johnson : 🚀 Product Launch 🚀 What an exciting miles...
Super Micro plans to raise $2B from the sale of convertible bonds to repurchase shares, as well as to fund growth and business expansion
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Google, the Earth Fire Alliance, and Muon Space's FireSat aims to launch 52 satellites by 2029 to detect wildfires globally and will make the data accessible
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Sources: Mira Murati has told investors that Thinking Machines Lab plans to develop custom AI models to optimize business KPIs, and to build a consumer product
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How Broadway is embracing large-scale, high-resolution videos as an integrated narrative tool aided by generative AI, as some creatives worry about its overuse
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