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Meta Heads to California Court as 29 States Allege Addictive Design for Children
A seven-week Oakland trial will test whether Meta designed Facebook and Instagram to keep young users hooked, with the c...
Salt Bank Marketing Chief: AI Answers Are Becoming a Third Discovery Front
Salt Bank's Viorel Ruse says AI assistants now shape purchase shortlists, paid search and CRM offer the clearest ROI, an...
A 20-Year-Old Built a 'Doctolib for Trades' in Five Weeks Using OpenAI Codex
Suna Marie Tamboga built Passt, a platform that matches German households with the right tradesperson, in about five wee...
Google Tests 'Ask YouTube' Conversational AI Search for Premium Users
YouTube is testing a new AI-generated search page that combines videos, Shorts, and text summaries. The Verge found it u...
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: Silicon Valley Needs Consumer AI to Win Over Regular Americans
Chesky says AI's poor public image is partly a product problem: too many enterprise tools, too few things ordinary peopl...
Nikkei Tech Foresight Schedules Aug. 27 Physical AI Webinar
The session will focus on non-NVIDIA chip options and robotic “hand” technology, with related patent analysis covering K...
Google's Pixel 11 Line Takes Aim at Samsung's Fold Lead and Apple's AirTag Price
Google's August 12 hardware push adds a Pro-branded foldable, a 34.99 euro Pixel Tag and a health-focused Pixel Watch 5,...
Anthropic backers eye $2 trillion IPO, topping SpaceX
Investors cited by the FT expect Anthropic to go public at about $2 trillion on surging Claude sales, with talks reporte...
Why Procurement Is Lagging on Agentic AI—and How Leaders Can Catch Up
New HBR analysis shows procurement trails every major function in agentic AI adoption, despite the clearest ROI case. Th...
White House Moves Ahead With Voluntary Frontier AI Cybersecurity Testing
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Nvidia met with officials, but the evaluation benchmark remains classified and no ag...
Google DeepMind's Leadership Shake-Up Tests Its Scientific Independence
A CEO-to-chair move, key departures and missed model deadlines leave Google's flagship AI lab defending its London-roote...
Inside Israel's Scale-Up Machine: 9,000 Startups and Deep Nasdaq Links
Government R&D policy, school-level tech exposure and a small home market have made Israel one of the world's densest st...
Why 5G Thematic Investing Hinges on Capacity, Spectrum and Fixed Wireless — Not Speed
The bull case for 5G rests on rising mobile data traffic and new enterprise uses, but broad thematic stock baskets need ...
Google Gemini Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Users as Voice and Screen-Sharing Surge
Google's Gemini passed 1 billion monthly active users in August, up from 950 million in July, even as Google shares fell...
Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap Face a Growing Wave of US Child-Safety Lawsuits
State AGs, school districts and families are suing Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap over youth mental-health harm; early ve...
Kazakhstan's Crypto Mining Shift: From Garage Farms to a Licensed 676 MW Industry
Licences, accredited pools and a 70/30 energy program are reshaping Kazakhstan's crypto mining sector—but legal miners f...
How a Slovak AI Interior Design Startup Hit 213,000 Users Without an Investor
MeltFlex AI pivoted from hardware to 2D room redesigns, with AI model recommendations replacing paid ads. Most subscribe...
Google DeepMind Expert: No Evidence of AI Job Collapse, but AI Panic Could Trigger Copycat Layoffs
Alex Imas says current data do not show a white-collar employment collapse from AI. The bigger near-term risk, he argues...
Google Puts Guided Strength Training on the Pixel Watch 5 Wrist
The Pixel Watch 5 will deliver sets, reps, weights and rest timers directly on the wrist, removing the phone from custom...
Fitness Startup Funding Rebounds, but AI and Health Data Are the New Pitch
Fitness and wellness startups raised more than $3.6 billion in H1 2026, but the recovery is concentrated in AI-driven we...
OpenAI-Backed Thrive Holdings Raises $2B to Push AI Into Physical Infrastructure
The $12B-valuation AI roll-up will add a physical-assets compliance platform, backed by SoftBank, D1 and Altimeter, afte...
Google's Pixel 11 Lineup Arrives With Price Hikes, Pixel Watch 5 and a $29 Tracker
Google's new Pixel 11 phones start at $899 and go on sale August 20, alongside the Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel Tag. Here's w...
T-Bank's IT Picnic Draws 30,000 as Tech Hiring and Community Building Converge
The fourth T-Bank IT Picnic at Kolomenskoye drew 30,000 IT specialists and families for lectures, partner zones, sports ...
Lunar Station Turns NASA Moon Data Into Mission-Planning Tools for Commercial Space
The startup's MoonHacker platform fuses NASA planetary data to model terrain, water indicators, radiation and communicat...
Appeals Court Clears Thousands of Youth-Addiction Suits Against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap
The 9th Circuit rejected Meta’s and TikTok’s early appeal, ruling Section 230 is a trial defense, not a shield from desi...
Datapar at 30: Paraguay's Homegrown ERP Player Eyes AI and Regional Expansion
Founded in Ciudad del Este in 1996, Paraguayan software firm Datapar says its ERP now handles around 15% of national GDP...
Four KDDI Iret Engineers Named 2026 OCI Top Partner Engineers
Oracle Japan has recognized four KDDI Iret engineers for OCI technical delivery, highlighting the KDDI subsidiary's shif...
AI's Infrastructure Boom Is Now Running on Debt, Private Credit and Faith
Demand for AI remains strong, but the buildout is increasingly financed with debt and off-balance-sheet vehicles. The fi...
Garmin’s Marine Ambition: Turn Boat Electronics Into One Safety-First Ecosystem
Garmin is bundling charting, helm controls, audio, lighting and switching from Navionics, JL Audio, Fusion and EmpirBus ...
Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: Open Models, Earlier U.S. Oversight, $1 Billion Fund
Meta's CEO urges open-source AI and earlier government collaboration, defends distillation, and launches a $1 billion da...