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Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans
Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.
AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation
Merck and Mastercard are seeing real agentic AI results. Both say the plumbing came first
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Broadcom Extends AI And Broadband Reach With New 50G Home Gateway SoC
Broadcom (NasdaqGS:AVGO) has introduced the BCM68850, described as the industry's first 50G ITU-PON home gateway SoC. The chip integrates a neural processor on the device and supports Wi-Fi 8 for home networking. The launch highlights Broadcom's push to extend its AI and connectivity portfolio into residential broadband gateways. For you as an investor, this positions Broadcom at the intersection of broadband access, edge AI, and next generation Wi-Fi. The company already has a large...
Nvidia and Micron emerge as biggest winners in Goldman's AI earnings forecast
Goldman sees massive AI windfall for chip stocks as hyperscalers ramp spending
Nvidia, TSMC and SK Hynix Gear Up for Major AI Expansion Talks
Nvidia's AI Empire Faces Key Test as Huang Meets Top Chip Partners in Taipei
The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times
Yellow taxis pass in front of The New York Times newspaper building. | Alexandra Schuler/dpa (Photo by Alexandra Schuler/picture alliance via Getty Images) How newsrooms should use AI - or if they should at all - has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York Times are gearing up for a fight. Unionized staff with the Tech Guild say Times management has refused to provide the union with information related to how the company has used AI, its plans for AI use in the future, and how it will affect employees' jobs and workflow. (The union filed an unfair labor practice charge earlier this month.) The Tech Guild, a NewsGuild … Read the full story at The Verge.
NVDA Shares Fall Premarket: CEO Jensen Huang Announces Taiwan Headquarters, Calls The Country 'Epicenter' Of AI
Last week, AMD announced a $10 billion investment in Taiwan to boost manufacturing partnerships in that country, which is home to the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer, TSMC.
Your SEO strategy is optimized for a search engine that no longer exists
Google I/O made it official: AI-generated answers are now front and center in search, and most brands have almost no visibility into how AI is describing them to their customers. For anyone who has spent years building a strategy around 10 blue links, the rules just changed in a pretty significant way. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca […]
Former Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI’s Missing Feedback Loop
Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn continuously.
SOND, a sleep tech startup from Bose’s former head of sleep, exits stealth with $7M
SOND, a startup led by Bose’s former head of sleep products, emerged from stealth with $7M in funding for its AI-powered sleep earbuds.
China is increasingly keeping its best AI talent to itself
China's AI boom is producing world-class talent, and Beijing is increasingly reluctant to let them go elsewhere.
First unit of JAXA’s new ISS resupply craft completes missions
The HTV-X1 delivered supplies to the international space station and then carried out missions in orbit around the Earth in and after March this year.
Application engineering for assembly systems is quietly becoming manufacturing’s biggest competitive edge
Manufacturing isn’t just about machines anymore. Now, success relies on engineering those machines well, keeping them connected and adjusting them to match what’s actually happening on the factory floor. Application engineering for assembly systems is pushing this change, especially as factories aim for higher output while cutting errors. Companies like Atlas Copco are all in, […]
What Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical Says About the Power of AI
In Magnifica Humanitas, the Pope decries the concentration of technological power in a few global players.
YouTube is putting AI labels where you’ll actually see them
The labels are more prominent, and they actually say “AI” now. | Image: YouTube / The Verge In the wake of Google expanding its AI verification efforts at I/O, YouTube is now finally going to start taking AI labeling seriously. YouTube has announced that it's relocating AI disclosures on Shorts and long-form videos to make them easier to spot and will start automatically identifying and labeling AI-generated content on the platform. For regular YouTube videos, the label - which says "AI" next to a recognizable information symbol - will now appear directly below the video player, above the description. Currently, this information is hidden on the videos themselves and can only be viewed by expanding the video description and checki … Read the full story at The Verge.
The Pope isn’t AGI-pilled
On Monday, Pope Leo XIV unveiled an encyclical letter addressing the societal implications of artificial intelligence. The letter, titled Magnifica Humanitas, warned that the "use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people's lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom." Alongside him was Anthropic cofounder and interpretability team lead Christopher Olah, representing a partnership between the Catholic Church and one of the biggest players in AI. The letter elicited a wide range of reactions from in and around the tech industry. Nearly everyone believed the document would be infl … Read the full story at The Verge.
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Robinhood launches agentic trading, announces credit card for AI agents with 3% cash back
Robinhood announced that customers can now use agents to conduct stock trading and shop with its credit card.
Robinhood will let your AI agent trade stocks and make (or lose) lots of money
Robinhood is opening its trading platform to AI agents. In an announcement on Wednesday, Robinhood says traders can now create a separate account for an AI agent and add a specific amount of money, allowing the agent to buy and sell stocks across the market. The company pitches the feature as a way for traders to automate investment decisions, such as having an agent monitor specific industries and make trades, or rebalancing an existing portfolio. But it comes with a big warning from Robinhood: Agentic trading involves significant risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment. AI-driven strategies may perform poorly under c … Read the full story at The Verge.
New DeepSWE benchmark finds Claude Opus cheats
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Stord Raises $250 Million to Build Brands an Amazon Alternative
The fulfillment provider is betting a unified tech stack and a new AI robotics lab can give independent brands a fighting chance against e-commerce giants.
Last Week in AI #341 - Musk loses to OpenAI, Google's IO updates, OpenAI solves Erdős
Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion Suit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman, Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude at IO 2026, and more!
I built an AI agent for the first time. It was not what I expected
I am not a developer ,been using AI tools casually for a while but never actually built anything with them. For months I kept seeing "automation" and "AI agents" thrown around in job descriptions and had no idea what it actually meant in practice. Watched a few YouTube videos, got confused, moved on. Finally sat down with n8n properly through a structured program I was doing. First attempt took most of a Sunday. Broke twice. Third time it actually ran on its own without me doing anything manually. What it does is pretty basic honestly. Pulls data from one place, summarizes it, drops the output somewhere useful. Nothing that would impress an engineer. But it runs every day without me touching it and that's the part I couldn't quite believe the first time it worked. The thing nobody told me is that automation isn't really a technical skill. It's a process thinking skill. You're just mapping out what happens in what order and telling a tool to do it. If you can describe a workflow on
Built an AI companion architecture with real internal needs — looking for first investor after publishing research paper
The problem with every AI product right now is that they're all wrappers. Same stateless LLM, different UI. The moment the context window closes, the AI forgets you existed. I built the infrastructure layer that fixes that. PHI // DRIFT gives an AI companion persistent state — seven internal need variables that drift between sessions, memory scored by what emotionally mattered not just what was semantically close, and a real-time telemetry dashboard showing the AI's internal state as it runs. This isn't a product yet. It's a published architecture with a research paper, 18k+ lines of working code, and 10 GitHub stars in the first 24 hours with zero marketing spend. The SaaS opportunity is clear: — Every company building AI companions needs this infrastructure layer — Enterprise AI that actually remembers context across sessions commands premium pricing — Security tooling that maintains reasoning state across bug bounty sessions is immediately monetizable I built this in 5 months o
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FCC Expands Conditional Approvals for Foreign-Made Drone Systems
Blueflite, Verity, and Air VEV Added to Growing List of Exempted Aircraft Under FCC Covered List Rules The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has expanded its growing list of conditionally approved drone systems, granting exemptions for several additional uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and related components under the agency’s controversial Covered List framework. In a Public Notice […] The post FCC Expands Conditional Approvals for Foreign-Made Drone Systems appeared first on DRONELIFE.
Figure partners with Catalyst Brands to deploy humanoid robots in logistics operations
Figure AI has signed a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands to deploy humanoid robots across the retailer’s distribution and logistics network. The partnership will begin at Catalyst Brands’ distribution center in Reno, Nevada, where Figure’s humanoid robots will be used to automate physically demanding supply chain tasks. Catalyst Brands operates several well-known retail chains, including […]
Rotaku launches Domo humanoid robot platform starting at $2,999 for developers
Rotaku has opened reservations for Domo, a compact humanoid robot platform designed for developers, makers, educators and robotics teams working with real humanoid hardware. The Domo lineup starts at $2,999 and is intended to make humanoid robot development more accessible to users working on motion control, teleoperation, manipulation, robot interaction and embodied AI. Founder vision: […]
Business & Industry
DataGrail report finds your vendor may be sending data to AI models you never approved
The data processing agreement (DPA) — the bedrock contract companies use to evaluate how vendors handle personal data — can no longer be trusted at face value. That is the central, and arguably most alarming, conclusion of DataGrail's Privacy and AI Trends Report 2026, released today. The San Francisco-based privacy platform analyzed 2,400 popular business software providers and found that 63.6% of vendors that prominently advertise AI capabilities do not disclose a third-party AI subprocessor in their legal documentation. The implication: the majority of companies purchasing AI-enabled software may be unknowingly exposing their customers' data to AI models and pipelines they never reviewed, never approved, and may not even know exist. "All software vendors are trying to move to become AI vendors, which makes sense, but the technologies are moving faster than AI governance can actually keep up," DataGrail co-founder and CEO Daniel Barber told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead