January 14, 2026

Gemini's new beta feature provides proactive responses based on your photos, emails, and more: Personal Intelligence is off by default, as users have the option to choose if and when they want to connect their Google apps to Gemini. Read More

YouTube now has a way for parents to block kids from watching Shorts: Parents will be able to toggle the Shorts time limit on connected children's accounts. Read More

Tesla will only offer subscriptions for Full Self-Driving (Supervised) going forward: It's a huge change to Tesla's approach with FSD, and it could impact Musk's $1T pay package and the company's myriad legal troubles. Read More

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Meta to reportedly lay off 10% of Reality Labs staff: Meta is laying off 10% of staff in its Reality Labs division, which is core to developing the company's VR and metaverse products. Read More

Man to plead guilty to hacking US Supreme Court filing system: A 24-year-old from Tennessee is expected to admit to accessing the Supreme Court's electronic filing system without authorization dozens of times throughout 2023. Read More

A consumer watchdog issued a warning about Google's AI agent shopping protocol -- Google says she's wrong: A consumer economics watchdog says Google's new Universal Commerce Protocol is ripe for misuse where consumers could pay more for items. Google denies this. Read More

US cargo tech company publicly exposed its shipping systems and customer data to the web: Shipping tech company Bluspark left internal plaintext passwords, including those of executives, exposed to the internet, at a time when hacks in the shipping industry are on the rise. Read More

VoiceRun nabs $5.5M to build a voice agent factory: VoiceRun, a startup that creates voice agents, raised $5.5 million in a round led by FlyBridge. Read More

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Kindred talks home-swapping platform for travelers, Chef Robotics introduces AI into commercial kitchens, and Character.AI addresses chatbot safety with teens.

New York governor clears path for robotaxis everywhere, with one notable exception: New York City will be a notable exclusion from proposed legislation to legalize commercial robotaxis across the state. Read More

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