After two months of testing, TechCrunch's Aisha Malik calls the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft 'a lot of fun, but it's not a must have' — it costs $630, weighs 400 grams, and pairs an 11 inch color e ink display wi...
On August 8, 2026, X announced it is retiring its Creator Revenue Sharing program and replacing it with the Original Content Rewards Program, a new system that only pays creators for original posts receiving...
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, an AI presentation startup founded by serial entrepreneur Ahmed Beshry.
Amazon's planned AI data center in Pecos County, Texas, would be powered by a 7.65 GW natural gas plant permitted to emit 33 million tons of CO₂ per year — twice the output of the dirtiest U.S.
Security researcher Bill Swearingen trained a reinforcement learning model over roughly 31 million tests to generate computer generated patterns that prevent Flock license plate readers, Axon body cameras, a...
London's King's Cross has transformed from a notorious red light district 20 years ago into one of the world's top three AI hubs, rivaled only by San Francisco and Beijing [1][2][11].
Amazon's planned AI data center in Pecos County, Texas, represents a direct and severe collision between its AI expansion and its public climate commitments.
Zoox launched the first commercial steering wheel free robotaxi service in the U.S.
In her upcoming book *The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State* (out August 25, 2026), Harvard historian and *New Yorker* writer Jill Lepore argues that Silicon Valley tech companies are quietly taking over...
Starting August 14, 2026, Anthropic made auto mode the default permission setting for new Claude Code sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans, replacing manual approval prompts with a safety classifier that blo...
Discovered Materials is a San Francisco deep tech startup using swarms of AI agents to discover new semiconductor materials that pull heat away from AI chips.
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund Situational Awareness added $400 million to its stake in stealth chip startup Source Foundry in early August 2026, bringing its total position to $500 million — just day...