BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables |

BCI (brain-computer interface) technology — in which neural signals are routed from a person’s head to a computer — was once the stuff of science…

BCI startup Neurable looks to license its 'mind-reading' tech for consumer wearables |

BCI (brain-computer interface) technology — in which neural signals are routed from a person’s head to a computer — was once the stuff of science…

Sequen snags $16M to bring TikTok-style personalization tech to any consumer company |

At Etsy, Zoë Weil helped to drive a billion-dollar increase in gross merchandise volume within a single year by improving the online marketplace’s AI ranking…

Claude's consumer growth surge continues after Pentagon deal debacle |

Claude’s daily active users are on the rise on mobile devices, as are its new app installs, following the company’s fallout with the Pentagon. After…

How PopSockets broke the VC-backed consumer hardware mold

Doesaconsumer hardwarecompany need to get on theVC treadmill tosucceed?Eleven years and 290 million products sold across 115 countries later,PopSocketshas proven thatthe bootstrapped, low-dilution path moreviablethan…

A consumer watchdog issued a warning about Google's AI agent shopping protocol — Google says she's wrong |

Shortly after Google announced its new Universal Commerce Protocol for AI-powered shopping agents, a consumer economics watchdog sounded the alarm. In a now viral post…

20th Anniversary List of Global Top Brands Unveiled, Chinese Consumer Electronics Brands at the Forefront of Global Innovation

/PRNewswire/ — On January 7, 2026, the Global Top Brands (GTB) celebrated its 20th anniversary and unveiled the winners of the 2025–2026 awards cycle. Founded…

VC predicts the consumer AI products OpenAI ‘won’t want to kill’

Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of consumer AI. Larco, who’s been investing in…

ChatGPT's mobile app hits new milestone of $3B in consumer spending |

ChatGPT has hit a new milestone of $3 billion in worldwide consumer spending on mobile as of this week, according to estimates from app intelligence…

VCs discuss why most consumer AI startups still lack staying power |

Even three years after the generative AI boom started, most AI startups are still making money by selling to businesses, not individual consumers. Although consumers…