Amazon acquires autonomous robotics startup Rivr
Amazon has acquired Rivr, a startup focused on autonomous robotics. Rivr is based in Zurich and was valued at $110 milli...
Employees had to restrain a dancing humanoid robot after it went wild at a California restaurant
When we think about the existential threats of new technology, we’re usually thinking about something like the rec...
DoorDash will start paying gig workers for creating content to train AI models
DoorDash has launched a new option for its gig economy workers to earn some extra cash. The delivery service introduced ...
Google is reportedly testing a Gemini app for Mac
Google is testing a version of its Gemini app for macOS, Bloomberg reports. The app would bring the AI assistant to unch...
Hundreds of millions of iPhones can be hacked with a new tool found in the wild
DarkSword, a powerful iPhone-hacking technique, has been discovered in use by Russian hackers.
FBI started buying Americans' location data again, Kash Patel confirms
Tom Cotton supports FBI data purchasing, compares it to searching people's trash.
Polymarket continues its partnership spree with a Major League Baseball deal
Prediction platform Polymarket has been on a partnership spree — a trend that continued this week, with a new deal invol...
Dogfighting in space won't look like the movies, but this company wants in on it
"Where we are today in space warfare is very similar to where air superiority was in the 1930s."
Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says
Bots are taking over the web, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. In an interview at the SXSW conference in Aust...
Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition
Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that the company raised $100 million in Ser...
Android will hide app sideloading behind a new one-time security process
Google has detailed how users will be able to sideload apps from unverified developers once it implements its more restr...
OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral
Codex maker says it will "continue to support these open source projects" after deal closes.