Stripe confirmed on Wednesday that it was buying OpenRouter. While the company didn’t disclose the deal price, sources told the New York Times that it…
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Waymo's cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities |
Waymo has opened its next-generation robotaxi to all riders in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco — a notable milestone for the Alphabet company as…
OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections |
As AI models have become more powerful, the potential for those models to be misused has grown — as has a clamor for safety guardrails…
Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup |
Elon Musk’s SpaceX attempted to acquire AI coding startup Cognition as it works to catch up to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the AI race,…
Travis Kalanick kicks off another round of VC bashing: '1% are helpful' |
Travis Kalanick certainly has had a love-hate relationship with VCs over his career. As the founder of Uber he was a VC darling, raising what…
T-Mobile 'chopped a cable' to expel Chinese hackers from its network |
In Brief Posted: 10:26 AM PDT · August 19, 2026 New reporting from Bloomberg revealed how cybersecurity staff at U.S. phone provider T-Mobile identified and…
Gwyneth Paltrow allegedly set to throw dinner in honor of Sam Altman |
In Brief Posted: 1:04 PM PDT · August 19, 2026 Sam Altman is headed to the Hamptons, according to Puck. Gwyneth Paltrow is reportedly sending…
Gambling on the Little League World Series? Sports bettors have gone too far |
1:01 PM PDT · August 19, 2026 Have we tried turning off society and turning it back on again? We need a complete cultural reset,…
AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn't |
Despite its technological progress, AI’s reputation out in the real world is getting worse. On Wednesday, Axios reported that the National Republican Senatorial Committee sent…
Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools |
Google on Wednesday announced a slew of new study tools across Search and Gemini, including AI-generated interactive visuals, 3D simulations, a dedicated student hub, customized…