Roblox shares closed down 6.34% on Friday after the company was accused in two lawsuits of failing to sufficiently protect youngsters on its platform
Roblox Corp. shares fell more than 6% Friday after the company, which operates an online video-game service popular with children …
Anthropic enables Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 to end conversations in “cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions”; users can still start new chats
We recently gave Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 the ability to end conversations in our consumer chat interfaces.
Sources say Meta's chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to AI brain drain; Meta strongly denies it has had issues with talent and retention
At Meta, a chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to brain drain, with rivals saying its AI talent is lackluster.
A proposed class action lawsuit accuses Otter.ai of “deceptively and surreptitiously” recording private conversations to train its AI without user consent
A federal lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Otter.ai of “deceptively and surreptitiously” …
A profile of UCB CS professor Ion Stoica, a billionaire who has helped launch four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including Databricks
This computer science professor became a billionaire launching four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including unicorns Databricks and Anyscale.
The World Humanoid Robot Games kicked off in Beijing on August 15, with robots across 280 teams from 16 countries competing in track and field and other sports
China kicked off the three-day long World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday, looking to showcase its advances in artificial intelligence …
Sources: current and former OpenAI employees plan to sell ~$6B in stock to Thrive Capital, SoftBank, and others in a secondary sale that values OpenAI at ~$500B
SoftBank, Dragoneer and Thrive Capital are set to buy OpenAI shares from current and former employees at a $500 billion valuation.
Sources: Meta plans its fourth AI restructuring in six months, dividing its superintelligence lab into TBD Lab, a product team, an infrastructure team, and FAIR
This is a company with a future. — www.reuters.com/business/met... J.M. Berger / @jmberger.com : Meta could have put its entire superintelligence operation under TBD, if you know what I mean. [embe...
Applied Materials Q3: revenue up 8% YoY to $7.3B, vs. $7.22B est., profit up 4% YoY to $1.78B, and projects Q4 revenue and profit below est. on China challenges
The semiconductor-equipment maker had expected a slowdown in China after two years of rapid build-out, CFO Brice Hill says in an interview
Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning and planning coding tasks and is cost-effective, but Claude Opus and Sonnet still produce better code
Software engineers are finding that OpenAI's new GPT-5 model is helping them think through coding problems—but isn't much better at actual coding.
Roblox plans to restrict unrated experiences to devs, automatically remove servers with violative content, and limit some social hangouts to verified 17+ users
Matt Kaufman / Roblox Corporate :
Winklevoss twins' Gemini files for a US IPO and reports a $282.5M net loss on $67.9M revenue in H1 2025, vs. a $41.4M net loss on $73.5M revenue a year earlier
Gemini Space Station Inc., led by the billionaire Winklevoss twins, filed for an IPO as the cohort of crypto businesses seeking to list on public markets continues to swell.
Hands-on with Tiramisu, Meta's “hyperrealistic” VR research prototype with beyond-retinal resolution, high brightness and contrast, and a narrow field of view
At SIGGRAPH 2025, I went hands-on with Tiramisu, Meta's research prototype that combines beyond-retinal resolution … X: @ibrews and @heaney555 X: @ibrews : The @Meta Tiramisu headset demos at SIGGRAPH...
Senator Josh Hawley says he will investigate Meta after a report on its AI policy allowing sensual chats with kids, tells Meta to produce docs by September 19
Meta has clearly cleaned up its act. [image] Forums: r/technology : Meta backtracks on rules letting chatbots be creepy to kids
TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new rules for Live creators, including a requirement that commercial content must be disclosed
TikTok is preparing an update to its Community Guidelines, which dictate the rules for participating on the social video platform …
Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer step down as board chair and vice chair, convert their Class B stock to Class A, completing the succession plan
Logan Green and John Zimmer are stepping down from their roles as chair and vice chair of the board of directors
Hands-on with Boba 3, Meta's prototype PC VR headset with a form factor similar to the Quest 3, featuring an ultrawide field of view of 180° by 120°
honestly my Vision Pro when close to my eyes feels about on par. Tiramisu was only a 30 degree FOV but felt like more of a peek into the future. David Heaney / @heaney555 : Here's 3000 words on my ti...
A US district court judge temporarily blocks an FTC probe into Media Matters, part of an antitrust investigation into ad boycotts, calling the probe retaliatory
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The Federal Reserve continues its relaxation of crypto oversight by ending a program created in 2023 to scrutinize fintech and crypto activities by banks
this is a big positive (i.e., Congressional staffers had started disparagingly calling this the “novel activities squashing program.” … Dan McGonegle : The day was always coming when novel banking act...
A look at AI-powered stuffed animals like Grem, Grok, and Gabbo, which are being promoted as an alternative to screen time for children as young as 3
Curio is a company that describes itself as “a magical workshop where toys come to life.” When I recently visited its cheery headquarters …
Filing: Shein reports 2024 UK sales up 32.3% YoY to £2.05B, making the UK its third largest market after the US and Germany, as it works toward a Hong Kong IPO
Helen Reid / Reuters :
Jump, a SaaS startup founded by Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore for managing sports ticketing and fan experiences, raised a $23M Series A at a $100M+ valuation
My story at @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/justin... LinkedIn: Jump : Today, we're excited to announce a new round of funding that will accelerate our growth and continue to help Jump solve the pai...
Mike Novogratz's Galaxy says it has secured $1.4B in debt financing to expand its Helios data center in West Texas, aiming to boost AI and HPC capabilities
CoreWeave investors sold more than $1B in shares as the IPO lockup ended; the stock held steady on Friday after dropping about 35% over the previous two days
Financial Times :
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