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A study presented at USENIX SOUPS revealed that consumers using commercial spy-device detectors missed 58.8% of hidden surveillance devices in test environments, performing only marginally better than visual searches.
San Francisco-based AI assistant startup Instinct is generating buzz for its task automation, but early testing has sparked severe privacy and security concerns over how the platform handles user data.
TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve allegations that the company violated federal children's online privacy laws under COPPA.
Tesla is voluntarily recalling roughly 3 million vehicles in China to resolve defects with its retractable door handles and driver monitoring systems amid rising regulatory pressure and local competition.
Apple is eliminating more than 200 positions, primarily impacting staff working on the Vision Pro and Siri teams, as part of a broader shift toward new hardware projects and artificial intelligence.
Apple has cut more than 60 positions within its Apple Vision Group, the team behind the Vision Pro headset, according to reports. The move comes amid soft demand for the $3,700 spatial computing device.
Google is giving web publishers an embeddable 'Preferred Sources' button to help mitigate referral traffic declines caused by AI search summaries, allowing readers to directly prioritize trusted news outlets.
Smart display maker Linkdaze is targeting household management with touchscreen calendars that aggregate multi-platform schedules and use AI to convert printed recipes into meal plans.
Rocket Companies stock slipped 2% to $14.50 in Tuesday trading following a prior-day decline, as mortgage technology platforms and originators continue to face pressure from sustained high interest rates and subdued housing activity.
Apple is preparing to expand digital identification capabilities in Apple Wallet to four additional U.S. states, including North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, and Virginia.
Arlington, Virginia-based audience intelligence platform Tunnl has been named to the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies, driven by enterprise adoption across healthcare, financial services, and consumer technology.
Apple Upgrade replaces two existing U.S. payment programs and lets eligible customers return, buy or exchange a device at the end of the lease.
The Palo Alto startup is expanding tools for creators and enterprises while facing the harder task of preventing unauthorized voice cloning.
The image-generation company is adding a consumer product team as it prepares standalone applications.
The live-commerce marketplace is forming an applied AI research group around Shaped's ranking technology.
Verified U.S. K-12 educators can receive a year of premium access and teaching-focused tools.
The savings platform is expanding a membership that combines travel deals, cash back and financial tools for cost-conscious consumers.
Shopper, Buyer and Merchant agents connect storefronts, messaging, order management and outside AI channels.
The Oakland company is building software to manage applications, participants, payments and reporting for programs serving communities.
The services update adds richer navigation, flexible location sharing, visual bill splitting and expanded media experiences.
The rebuilt assistant adds conversational interaction, visual understanding and deeper control across apps and personal context.
The ChatGPT maker joined Anthropic in a high-stakes race to bring frontier AI companies to public markets.
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
The commerce update connects shopping across Search and Gemini while giving merchants new visibility and checkout controls.
Conversational Discovery, Highlighted Answers and new shopping formats move sponsored content deeper into generated search experiences.
The updates extend VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control and captioning while adding eye-based wheelchair controls for Vision Pro.
The update adds campaign automation, an AI Brief for advertiser guidance and new controls for regulated messaging.
The San Francisco mobility company is preparing pilot networks that place small autonomous vehicles on narrow, reserved lanes.
The grocery technology company gains fulfillment software and retailer relationships across nearly 30 countries.
The first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs powers a redesigned Meta AI experience and can coordinate parallel subagents.
A single integration is designed to expose catalogs, payments and order workflows to AI shopping agents.
The music model can create structured tracks of up to three minutes and is available across developer, enterprise and creative products.
The purchase brings a large catalog of video effects, templates and editing tools inside Apple.
The viral forum's founders are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs after a brief and controversial rise.
The entry model adds the A19 chip, MagSafe, a 48-megapixel camera and 256 gigabytes of starting storage.
The reported deal moves future production of the hit series inside Apple Studios.
