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Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works
Plus - Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations; Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store
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Facebook officially rolls out its stand-alone Creator Studio app
Plus - Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps; Apple in talks to pay publishers to provide Siri with current news
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Everything announced at Made by Google ’26
Plus - The latest in startup business news
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Jeff Bezos might finally get his hands on a sports team
Plus - OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer; Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models
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Meta gets a new AI model
Plus - Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the US; Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default
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Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster
Plus - The Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms; Bumble teases a swipe-free future as it doubles down on IRL meetups;
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eBay continues to bet on live shopping
Plus - Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings; Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI
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Disney+ looks to TikTok creators to bring fan content
Plus - Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta; SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth
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Spotify now has over 300M subscribers
Plus - Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B; Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip
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Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?
Plus - Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT; Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users’ internet connections with strangers
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Spotify launches ‘User Notes’ to let users add memories to songs, and more
Plus - Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI; LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’
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Mark Zuckerberg predicts billions will have personal AI agents in five years
Plus - A new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart offers an AI assistant for homeowners; Winamp aims for a comeback with a new music player powered by Deezer
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DoorDash is building its own drone delivery business
Plus - Sam Altman is ready to decelerate; Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid
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Peacock bets on bundles through a new deal with YouTube
Plus - Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive; Lyft and Baidu enter London’s robotaxi battleground as testing begins
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Can Apple make smart glasses that aren’t a constant privacy threat?
Plus - Snapchat now lets you share what you’re listening to in real time; Threads users can now chat with Meta AI in their DMs
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Facebook launches a dedicated Marketplace app for sellers
Plus - Patreon lays off 20% of its workforce; OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
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Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone
Plus - Amazon is bringing games to Prime Video; Ford bets on Apple for its next-generation of EVs
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Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack
Plus - Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination; Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts.
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Deezer says more than 50% of daily music uploads are AI-generated
Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts; Threads rolls out parental supervision tools
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YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop
Plus - Adobe camera app’s new feature will critique your photos using AI; Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup
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Google’s AI Mode gets an update
Plus - Uber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero deal would nearly double its global footprint; Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos;
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Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down to OpenAI
Plus - Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot; Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal
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OpenAI announces first hardware device
Plus - Lorde says AI glasses are ‘not sexy’; Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery
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Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe
Plus - X just tweaked its algorithm to make it more friendly; 12 states sue to block Paramount’s $110B Warner Bros. deal
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OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households
More than three years after ChatGPT’s launch brought generative AI into the mainstream, OpenAI is broadening its focus beyond individual users to families.
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Netflix could be planning ‘always-on’ live TV channels
Plus - EU threatens Meta with fines over addictive features on Facebook and Instagram; Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.
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Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI
Plus - Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits; Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders
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Meta just launched a new AI generator
Plus - Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models; Venus Williams-backed WeWard can now lock your apps until you hit your steps
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Netflix dabbles in shorter video content
Netflix invented binge-watching. Now it may have outgrown it.
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If you use Google, you’re training its AI
Plus - Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees
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A warning sign about AI’s real cost, courtesy of Google and Amazon
Plus - Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped; Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become
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Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company
Plus - US government says it got hacked — again; Popular TV-tracking app TV Time is shutting down
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OpenClaw is finally available on Android and iOS
Plus - Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models
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X now offers an MCP server to make its platform easier for AI tools to use
Plus - Tesla starts testing Cybercab without pedals or a steering wheel in Austin
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In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights
Plus - TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization
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Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that
Plus - YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speed
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Trump admin proposes axing brake-pedal requirement for AVs in a boost for Tesla
Plus - Apple raises Mac and iPad prices, spares iPhone for now
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Slate Auto’s radically simple electric truck starts at $24,950
Plus - If you want to cut your screen time, just get a Brick
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Meta debuts new, cheaper smart glasses under its own brand
Plus - Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates
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Lucid Motors’ new CEO cuts 18% of staff to ‘simplify the company’
Plus - Instagram looks to take on streaming services with longer-form, episodic and live formats for its TV app
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