Hank Green Scales Back After Describing His ChatGPT Use as Unhealthy
The creator says AI-assisted research blurred his process and damaged the trust audiences place in his work.
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Snapchat Removes Fully AI-Generated Videos From Spotlight Rewards
Creators can still use AI editing tools, but recommendation and payment systems will prioritize content made by real people.
Reddit Prepares a Video and Audio Format for Its Most Viral Posts
The company is testing a native version of the narrated Reddit stories that already attract large audiences on TikTok.
Reddit Beats Expectations as Search Traffic Becomes Less Predictable
Revenue and profit surged, but investors focused on volatile referrals and the possibility that AI search will reduce logged-out visits.
App Store Changes and Gaming Weakness Slow Apple's Services Business
Apple still set a quarterly services record, but regulatory pressure and softer gaming activity limited growth in key areas.
LinkedIn Adds an AI Slop Report as It Removes Its Own Post-Writing Tool
The platform is shifting from generating users' language to proofreading it while using feedback to reduce low-quality recommendations.
FCC Blocks New Foreign-Made Humanoid Robots, Robot Dogs and Power Inverters
The import restrictions focus largely on Chinese equipment that officials say could enable surveillance, remote control or cyberattacks.
Fish Audio Raises $52 Million for Expressive AI Voice Models
The Palo Alto startup is expanding tools for creators and enterprises while facing the harder task of preventing unauthorized voice cloning.
WhatsApp Adds Voice and Video Calling to Its Web App
The browser version gains calls, screen sharing, reactions and waiting rooms as Meta closes a long-standing gap with its desktop software.
HBO Max Tests a Vertical Shorts Feed and Conversational Search
AI selects candidate scenes for human editors as the streaming service looks for better ways to surface a large catalog.
Cast Insights Raises $4.5 Million to Index Live Spoken Media
The San Francisco startup turns television, radio, podcasts and livestreams into searchable signals for companies that need faster narrative tracking.
Whatnot Acquires Shaped for Real-Time Shopping Recommendations
The live-commerce marketplace is forming an applied AI research group around Shaped's ranking technology.
Pocket Raises $11 Million for Its Dedicated AI Note-Taking Device
The hardware startup is betting that a simple recorder with free transcription can hold a place beside phones and software-only meeting assistants.
Adobe Agrees to Acquire Topaz Labs
The creative-software company is adding specialized AI models for image and video enhancement.
Figma Motion Adds Native Animation Tools to Product Design Files
Teams can build, review and hand off interface motion without leaving the shared canvas.
Riviera Partners Acquires Lateral Labs
The executive-search firm is adding an AI-focused recruiting team with startup customers.
Coval Raises $28 Million to Stress-Test Voice and Chat Agents
The former Waymo engineer behind the startup is applying simulation and observability techniques to customer-facing AI systems.
Meta Launches $299 AI Glasses in 26 Styles
The EssilorLuxottica partnership broadens Meta's wearable lineup with prescription support and Muse Spark-powered assistance.
Facebook Adds AI Mode and New Creative Tools
Meta is using public social content to answer searches while expanding AI-assisted photo, video and profile editing.
Apple Extends Intelligence Across Maps, Find My and Apple Cash
The services update adds richer navigation, flexible location sharing, visual bill splitting and expanded media experiences.
Sekai Raises $26 Million as Users Generate Millions of Mini Apps
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
ZoomMate Launches as an Agentic Assistant for Workplace Tasks
The product combines enterprise search, generated deliverables and actions across connected applications.
Human Archive Raises $8.2 Million to Collect Training Data for Physical AI
The startup is building a network that records first-person human activity, bringing privacy, consent and worker pay into the robotics data race.
Status AI Raises $17 Million for an Interactive Social Network
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
Apple Previews AI-Powered Accessibility Upgrades
The updates extend VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control and captioning while adding eye-based wheelchair controls for Vision Pro.
RadixArk Launches With $100 Million Seed Round to Expand SGLang
The Palo Alto startup is commercializing infrastructure around a widely used open-source engine for running and serving advanced AI models.
Meta Acquires Assured Robot Intelligence
The startup's team will join Meta's effort to develop AI systems for humanoid robots.
Standard Intelligence Raises $75 Million for Computer-Use Models
The six-person startup is training AI to learn digital tasks from video, with efficiency and safety becoming the key tests for its approach.
Adobe Firefly AI Assistant Coordinates Work Across Creative Apps
The conversational agent can plan and complete tasks using Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and other Adobe tools.
Deccan AI Raises $25 Million to Build More Reliable Post-Training Data
The Mountain View startup is combining expert labor, evaluations and software infrastructure to improve AI systems after their initial training.
Google Expands Search Live to More Than 200 Markets
The camera-and-voice search experience now supports real-time multilingual conversations wherever AI Mode is available.
Google Launches Lyria 3 Pro for Longer AI-Generated Music
The music model can create structured tracks of up to three minutes and is available across developer, enterprise and creative products.
Google TV Adds Gemini Visual Answers and Sports Briefs
The television interface can now show richer responses, narrated topic explorations and quick updates for sports fans.
Littlebird Raises $11 Million for a Context-Aware Desktop Assistant
The startup is building an AI memory that reads on-screen text, prepares meeting notes and retrieves information from a user's daily work.
Apple Introduces AirPods Max 2 With the H2 Chip
The updated headphones add stronger noise control, Adaptive Audio, Conversation Awareness and Live Translation support.
Apple Acquires Final Cut Pro Specialist MotionVFX
The purchase brings a large catalog of video effects, templates and editing tools inside Apple.
Sunday Raises $165 Million to Put Its Memo Robot Into Homes
The Mountain View robotics company reached a $1.15 billion valuation with a plan to begin real household deployments in the fall.
Zoom Opens No-Code Platform for Custom Workplace AI Agents
Businesses can build agents that work across meetings, documents and outside enterprise applications.
Apple Brings M5 Pro and M5 Max to MacBook Pro
The 14- and 16-inch laptops add faster AI processing, higher storage floors and improved solid-state drive performance.
Apple Updates MacBook Air With M5 Chip and More Base Storage
The new laptop doubles entry-level storage while increasing AI and graphics performance.
