Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs condemn ICE violence, praise Trump: Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with one addressing concerns publicly and the other in an internal message. Read More |
The price gap between Waymo and Uber is narrowing: A trip in a Waymo robotaxi still costs more, on average, than a comparable ride in a human-driven Uber or a Lyft. But that gap is narrowing, according to new data published Tuesday by Obi, a company that aggregates real-time pricing and pickup times across multiple ride-hailing services. Read More |
Google's more affordable AI Plus plan rolls out to all markets, including the U.S.: Gemini 3 Pro and other AI tools are now available globally through the Google AI Plus plan, which is $7.99 per month in the United States. Read More |
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Amazon is closing its physical Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores: Upon closing down some stores in 2024, an Amazon spokesperson said that the company "couldn't make the economics work with the lease cost." These retail closures will not impact customers who use Amazon for grocery delivery. Read More |
Amid Trump attacks and weaponized sanctions, Europeans look to rely less on US tech: European governments are looking to move away from U.S. tech and reclaim their digital sovereignty at a time of unpredictability and volatility in the United States. Read More |
Samsung's TriFold phone will cost $2,899 in the US : The phone's display unfolds twice to reveal a 10-inch display, which is the largest screen ever on a Galaxy phone. Read More |
Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni's Phia raises $35M to 'make shopping fun again': "We are just at such a prime time of opportunity," Gates said to explain the new fundraise. "Commerce itself for the consumer hasn't really been adapted in the last 30 years, and the opportunity to make a truly personalized, end-to-end shopping experience is today." Read More |
Amazon agrees to pay consumers $309M in returns policy settlement: The lawsuit, filed in 2023, alleged that Amazon caused "substantial unjustified monetary losses" for consumers who returned an item but were still charged for it. Read More |
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China's Moonshot releases a new open source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent: The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens. Read More |
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