A profile of Nex, which makes the $249 Nex Playground motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids and projects more than $150M of sales this year
How an obscure company pivoted, then pivoted again, nearly ran out of money—and built a hit product LinkedIn: Tony Sung and Helena Ngo LinkedIn: Tony Sung : Thanks WSJ for the coverage: “But the most ...
Nothing unveils its Essential branding for AI products, a new app store with user-designed, AI-generated apps based on Android called Playground, and more
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A look at Apple's AI plans for WWDC; sources: macOS 26 will be named Tahoe and Apple is testing its 3B, 7B, 33B, and 150B AI models via internal tool Playground
Apple, a year after debuting its AI platform, will do little at WWDC to show it's catching up to leaders like OpenAI and Google.
Rabbit R1 maker Rabbit demos its “generalist Android agent”, showing it controlling apps on a tablet, building on its LAM Playground, a “generalist web agent”
Watch Rabbit's AI agent, but not the Rabbit R1, do things in Android apps.
Source: Andy Rubin left Playground Global, the venture firm he founded, in May, with a payout of more than $9M
but he's still in the building C. Scott Brown / Android Authority : Andy Rubin exits a venture capital firm he founded, possibly related to scandals Joe Maring / Android Central : Andy Rubin was repor...
Source: Andy Rubin has left Playground Global, the venture firm he founded, in May; Rubin's departure was accompanied by $9M+ payout
Android creator Andy Rubin left Google with a $90 million exit package after investigations into sexual misconduct. Now he's out at Playground Global … Tweets: @rmac18 Tweets: Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : Pl...
Essential began with a $30M investment from Playground and Redpoint and raised a second round; Tencent, VY, Altimeter, Access Tech logos also visible on site
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