• Polestar tries to quantify what it’s like to drive a performance car
• Meta Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations
• Visiting Slate’s first showroom as its $25,000 electric truck nears production
• Japan launches mission to bring home a piece of the Martian moon Phobos
• Pennsylvania issues alert on congenital measles—something US hasn't seen for decades
• Russian spacecraft maneuvers in "extreme proximity" to satellite used by Ukraine
• Accused OpenAI spy had folder called “Saudi Gov Docs,” FBI says
• Batteries help reduce emissions, but how do we reduce their emissions?
• PSA: Patch your Plex media server before someone hacks it
• Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test
• ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support
• AI game clones are making indie developers afraid to show their work
• Florida DMV hacked after police dept insecurely stored login info
• Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits
• A Chinese rocket deorbited over Minnesota and left this in a farmer's cornfield
• Review: Lanterns is a truly unique twist on the superhero genre
• DIY VR: How to build your own headset, and why you probably won't want to
• Stratospheric airship flew from US to Japan to test sky cell tower concept
• Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access
• Science says your boss should talk less in meetings
| • Anthropic's IPO prospectus: H1 2026 revenue of $16.3B, ~20% from two customers, vs. $1.1B in H1 2025, and an $80.7B net loss driven by accounting charges (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
• A profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma; sources: Xbox plans a major Game Pass overhaul, a next-gen handheld device by late 2027, and next-gen console by late 2028 (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune)
• Amazon plans to hire 300K+ US workers for seasonal, part-time, and full-time roles for the upcoming holiday season, up 20% from 2025, paying $20/hour on average (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
• Google launches TorchTPU, an open-source version of PyTorch to let AI apps run on TPUs and Google Cloud via simple configuration changes without rewriting code (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
• Oro Mobility, a Hertz-owned fleet management business that has a deal to manage Uber's planned Lucid robotaxi fleet starting in San Francisco, raised $80M (Joann Muller/Axios)
• A US judge dismisses a civil sexual abuse lawsuit brought against Sam Altman by his sister, after she refused to appear for an independent medical examination (Luc Cohen/Reuters)
• OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio, which builds AI agents for managing drug development, and plans to integrate its tech into OpenAI life sciences suite Rosalind (Madison Mills/Axios)
• Foursquare co-founder says the company was acquired a month ago in a deal resulting in a $0 payout for equity holders, and faults leadership installed in 2021 (Dennis Crowley/Teendrama Snippets)
• Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI staff of three AI endgames: an IAEA-style regulator, a CERN-like lab merger, or one lab using RSI to "melt everyone else's GPUs" (The Information)
• Sensor Tower: Muse had 10.9M downloads since its September debut, 10.2M of those in the US, becoming the 12th app to hit 10M US downloads in its first 40 days (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
• Sources: Polymarket investors pressured CEO Shayne Coplan to add stricter financial and operational controls; Elon Musk's lawyer, Alex Spiro, joined its board (Bloomberg)
• Joel Kaplan, Meta's chief global affairs officer, plans to leave in 2027 after 15+ years as Mark Zuckerberg's top DC adviser; Kaplan has close Trump ties (Mike Allen/Axios)
• ASI, which makes AI tools for the military and air traffic controllers, raised a $325M Series C at a $3B valuation, after winning an $875M FAA contract in June (Bloomberg)
• Daytona, which is building cloud infrastructure for AI agents, raised a $60M Series B led by FirstMark at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $91M (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
• Firefly, whose AI software connects with existing cameras, radios, and sensors to detect incidents and coordinate real-time responses, raised a $20M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
| • Employees warned TikTok about child exploitation, court documents show
• How long can you expect your original Steam Deck to last?
• AMD is bringing its next-gen FSR 4.1 upscaling tech to Xbox
• How often should you restart your Apple Watch?
• Spotify is dancing around its AI 'slop and spam' problem
• Don't put your phone in the TSA bin — do this instead
• You can build your own mechanical keyboard, but is it worth the price?
• 5 ways to make your old iPhone feel faster
• Perplexity makes it easier to run AI workflows entirely on your own Mac
• 5 CarPlay navigation apps you should be using instead of Apple Maps
• RAM prices are crazy high, but do not settle for an 8GB laptop
• Amazon Prime comes with an Alexa upgrade you should know about
• How to stop fake virus pop-ups on your Windows PC
• Antigravity's Follow Me bundle adds accurate tracking and gesture controls to its A1 drone
• How to know it's time to replace your router
• UK antitrust regulator wants Apple to open up iPhone NFC access
• 3+ useful features included with Google One that people ignore
• OpenAI says its models can help banks migrate from old COBOL programs
• Spotify's Memberships program for podcasts is here to compete with Patreon
• The Apple Store will only let you check out two iPhone Duos
|