Amazon’s Prime Air is taking off in nearly 500 US cities |

Amazon announced Wednesday a major expansion of Amazon Prime Air, its drone delivery service, with plans to reach nearly 500 U.S. cities by the end…

Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store |

7:54 AM PDT · August 14, 2026 After trying and failing to delay the matter, Apple on Thursday submitted its proposal for the commissions it…

Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work |

Anthropic published a blog post Friday seeking to answer some basic questions about how it will watermark the text generated by its chatbot Claude. Such…

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery |

A woman identified as Jane Doe 4 has joined a lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teenagers against Elon Musk’s xAI over the role the company’s…

How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked |

Just like any other online service, hackers can target and break into your accounts on popular AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. TechCrunch…

Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up |

In Brief Posted: 3:43 PM PDT · August 14, 2026 PayPal CEO Enrique Lores’ turnaround plan for the fintech company could include a sale —…

Self-driving trucks are officially testing on California highways |

Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test their autonomous vehicle…

Thrive's Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria |

In Thrive Capital’s first-ever investor letter, founder Joshua Kushner has some unexpected things to say about his venture capital rivals on the West Coast. “It…

What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities |

Since the end of last month, several water utilities in the United States have been hit by cyberattacks, causing alarm in the country. For years,…

Read-it-later app Pocket shut down — here are the best alternatives |

In May 2025, Mozilla announced that it was shutting down the popular read-it-later app Pocket, which it had acquired back in 2017 for an undisclosed…