Reddit is joining the S&P 500 with its stock down 31% this year
The index provider announced the change on 13 August, in a release issued at 18:12 in New York. Reddit enters under the Communication Services sector. It trades on the New York St…
US courts will start publishing how often the government uses spyware
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts told TechCrunch that it will start disclosing how many times judges authorized the use of spyware to wiretap suspected criminals.
Apple wants to pay publishers per use, not per year, to give Siri the news
Alexandra Bruell reported the talks for the Wall Street Journal on 12 August, citing people familiar with the matter. Apple has approached publishers over recent months. The conte…
Flock Safety cuts data retention to seven days after dozens of police abuse cases
Garrett Langley, the company’s chief executive, set out the package in a post on Flock’s own blog on 13 August. It covers six areas. Privacy, accountability, data ownership, data …
Private US companies can now run cyber operations abroad. State-backed hackers are excluded
Donald Trump signed the memorandum on 12 August and the White House published it that night. It runs to five sections. A National Coordination Center creates and manages the progr…
Europe’s ‘Made in EU’ rules start at 5%, and they do not mention software
The Industrial Accelerator Act arrived on 4 March 2026 as COM(2026)100, alongside an impact assessment and three staff working documents, per the European Commission. Its formal t…
Airbnb’s CEO says nobody builds AI for normal people. He is on Y Combinator’s board
The Airbnb chief executive made the argument on the Yahoo Finance podcast Power Players with Brian Sozzi this week. His diagnosis has two parts. “I think part of it’s a narrative …
Microsoft is killing its AI mascot, ten months after building it
The cull lands on Tuesday. Group Chat, Podcasts, Copilot Labs and consumer Deep Research all retire that day, according to Microsoft’s own support page. Mico goes at the same time…
Microsoft told Google it was overreacting in 2010. It has spent five years quietly leaving China
Corporate filings show the closures, Reuters reported in an exclusive. The revenue figure is the one that explains the rest. China accounted for 1.5% of global revenue as of 2024.…
Lightspeed is selling its OpenAI stake to a fund it will also run
The firm calls the deal Project Mercury, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with it. It gathers assets from two Lightspeed funds, Select V and Opportunity II, plus a separ…
Meta removed 756,000 Australian accounts. Its real ask is that Apple does the checking
Representatives of Meta, TikTok, Google and Snap give evidence to an Australian parliamentary inquiry on Friday, Reuters reported. Regulators and government officials appear too. …
Uber and Pony.ai plan to bring 2,000 robotaxis to Europe
The partnership is expanding beyond the initial market of Zagreb, Croatia to four additional European cities.
Thrive Capital’s first investor letter shows how completely OpenAI has come to define it
Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has sent its first formal letter to investors, and the standout figure captures the AI era in miniature. One of its funds has swelled to about $3.7…
A Massachusetts teen is charged with killing his mother and brother, and prosecutors point to ChatGPT
A 17-year-old in Massachusetts has been charged with murdering his mother and younger brother, and prosecutors say that in the period before the deaths he had used ChatGPT to expl…
Weather drones are filling the data blind spot that armies and traders both need
The artificial-intelligence weather boom has a dirty secret. For all the talk of models that see storms days ahead, an AI forecaster is only as good as the observations that feed …
Cl0p claims a mass hack of Shell, Philips, and dozens more
The Russia-linked ransomware group Cl0p has claimed a fresh wave of cyberattacks, naming Shell and Philips among its victims and, by some counts, dragging close to 50 companies in…
Pony.ai and Uber to put more than 2,000 Chinese robotaxis on European streets
Pony.ai and Uber have expanded their partnership to put more than 2,000 robotaxis on European roads, a deal that hands one of China’s autonomous-driving champions a route onto the…
Goldman Sachs is courting investors on Nvidia’s $500bn AI-compute financing deal
Goldman Sachs has secured the role every Wall Street firm wanted, and it is now working the phones. The bank is in talks with investors about Nvidia’s $500bn AI-compute financing …
Silver Lake is reportedly in talks to take Workday private at $43bn
Silver Lake is in talks to take Workday, the cloud-based HR and finance software company, private in a deal that would value it at roughly $43bn, according to a Reuters report. If…
Apple trained its own AI model for China, and handed the brain to Alibaba
Apple has trained its own large language model for the Chinese market with Alibaba’s support, a striking break from the company’s usual habit of leaning on other people’s models. …
OpenAI’s new Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol 14 times faster, on Cerebras chips
OpenAI wants its cleverest model to also be its quickest. The company has previewed Ultrafast, a new tier of its API that runs the flagship GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14 times the usual…
This Bengaluru startup is training dogs and AI to sniff out cancer early
Dognosis pairs trained sniffer dogs with artificial intelligence to flag cancer from a breath sample. It is a charming idea aimed at a real problem, with equally real caveats: thi…
Investors sue Selena Gomez, claiming her wellness startup’s app was never built
Selena Gomez, one of the most-followed people on the planet, is being sued by investors who say her mental-health startup Wondermind was a hollow promise dressed up as a movement.…
Writer bets on cheaper AI agents with Palmyra X6 and a leaner harness
Writer, the enterprise AI company, has launched Palmyra X6, its new flagship model, alongside an upgraded “harness” built to do something the industry has been curiously reluctant…