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The nine-year-old scooter and bike-share company has said it needs the funds to help pay down around $1 billion in liabilities.

Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.

Honda wants in on the lucrative energy storage market. This week it began producing batteries destined for data centers, not driveways.

The autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the talent wars and capital are heating up the same way they did the first time around. The money’s flowing back, and it’s the people who lived through that first […]

Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.

Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.

Sony will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games beginning in 2028, as the company embraces an all-digital future.

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Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.

The Trump administration's erratic approach to AI policymaking has left companies across the industry with little clarity about what will govern future model releases.

Wayve’s offering is part of a growing trend of AI startups using employee tenders as a strategic tool to attract and retain talent.

What if one pitch changed everything? The next company nobody has heard of yet is building something that will matter. It could be yours.

The free open source agentic program is finally invading your phone.

EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.

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Thus ends the messy saga of Subnautica 2.

RIP to physical PlayStation discs.

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UN panel says 'AI is neither inherently good nor bad,' but better safeguards around it are needed.

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The Gemini macOS app now has access to Google's Spark agentic AI assistant.

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Anthropic trained its newest Sonnet model to excel at agentic tasks, which have been causing a headache for the company's enterprise customers and power users.

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The future of video game preservation just took a major hit. This morning, Sony announced that, starting in January 2028, the company will no longer produce physical PlayStation discs , which means that from that moment on you can only purchase new PS5 games digitally. At the same time, Sony also announced that it's going to start winding down the digital stores for both the PS3 and PS Vita , helpfully illustrating one of the most pertinent issues with a digital-only future for gaming: Once the stores are gone, so are the games. It's a terrible blow for preservation of

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The 1970s porn actress turned New York City late night public access queen says censorship and a lack of star quality among modern adult entertainers turned her off of the industry.

With AI-powered noise reduction, an automatic speech-focusing system, and a simple, effective hearing test, it’s a shame these aids don't come with a better app.

Climate activist Will Lawrence cofounded the Sunrise Movement. Now, he has shifted his focus in his attempt to compete for a swing-district seat by calling for a data center moratorium.

FIFA says hydration breaks protect players from heat. They also create new annoying commercial breaks—and fans are calling foul.

Europe’s pro-competition proposals could see Google Search and Android systems opened up. The company claims there are serious privacy flaws.

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