Sunday, Aug 30, 2026
Uber Has Deals With 30 Different Self-Driving Companies. It Still Doesn’t Own a Single One
Uber has partnered with, and in some cases directly invested in, more than 30 autonomous vehicle companies over the past…
LinkedIn Just Added a Button to Report AI Slop. It’s Also Deleting Its Own AI Writing Tool
LinkedIn is rolling out a "seems like AI slop" reporting button, letting users flag posts that appear artificially generated, part…
Google Fixed More Chrome Bugs Last Month Than in the Previous Two Years Combined
Google said Thursday it patched 1,072 security bugs across the two latest versions of Chrome, both released in June, more…
A Judge Told the Pentagon It Still Hasn’t Proven Its Case Against an AI Company. The Company Refused to Build Weapons Targeting
A federal judge said Thursday that the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a "supply…
Apple Just Hit 1.5 Billion Subscriptions. Its Services Business Still Missed.
Apple reported $30.74 billion in services revenue for its fiscal third quarter, falling short of the $31.22 billion Wall Street…
Reddit Beat Every Number Wall Street Expected. Its Stock Fell 10% Anyway.
Reddit reported second-quarter revenue of $805 million, up 61% year-over-year, and net income of $253 million, up 183%, comfortably beating…
A Fusion Startup Just Raised $1 Billion From Pension Funds. Nuclear Fusion Still Doesn’t Exist Commercially
Commonwealth Fusion Systems, already the best-funded nuclear fusion developer in the world, raised another $1 billion, bringing its total funding…
The US Economy Grew Because of Tax Refunds and AI Spending. Both Are About to Fade
The U.S. economy likely maintained steady growth in the second quarter, with a survey of economists forecasting a 2.1% annualized…
South Korea’s Exports Grew 59% in a Month. Almost None of That Was More Chips Actually Shipped
South Korean exports were forecast to rise 59.0% in value in July from a year earlier, according to a survey…
Zuckerberg Says Billions Will Have Personal AI Agents in Five Years. His Free Cash Flow Just Dropped 91%
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors on Wednesday's earnings call that he considers it "extremely unlikely" that five years from…
Microsoft Made More From Anthropic in One Quarter Than From OpenAI All Year.
Microsoft's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings, covering the period through June 30, included a specific disclosure buried inside an otherwise dominant quarter:…
Visa’s Profit Rose 11%. It’s Still Cutting 2,600 Jobs the Same Day
Visa reported fiscal third-quarter net revenue of $11.6 billion, up 14% year-over-year, with non-GAAP earnings per share of $3.32, an…
AT&T Just Closed a $23 Billion Deal for Spectrum It Started Leasing Months Ago
AT&T said Tuesday it has completed its roughly $23 billion acquisition of wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar, a deal first…
WhatsApp Web Finally Makes Calls. It Took This Long Because of Waiting Rooms
WhatsApp is adding audio and video calling to its web app for the first time, ending years in which calling…
Elon Musk’s Twenty-Seven-Year-Old Idea Just Launched in the US. It’s Called X Money.
X Money, the payments product built into Elon Musk's social platform, began rolling out to U.S. Premium and Premium+ subscribers…