Reddit now lets users reply to any post with video comments

Reddit has launched video comments for all users. The feature lets any Redditor upload or record a short-form video reply directly in the comments of any post. It rolls out across all public, safe-for [...]

Microsoft launches a $2.5 billion AI deployment business with 6,000 engineers

Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier company on Thursday, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The venture is focused on de [...]

His headphones kept cutting out, so he read the AliExpress code

A developer worked out why his Bluetooth headphones kept dropping his music, and the answer was on the AliExpress homepage. The Register reported the story on Monday, drawing on the developer’s own [...]

White House offers to trade state AI preemption for federal online safety laws in new deal with Congress

The White House is negotiating with key senators to bundle federal preemption of state AI laws with three online safety bills, Axios reported. Senator Marsha Blackburn is leading the effort to finalis [...]

Procore’s AI could read the blueprints. For $845M, it just bought eyes on the site.

Procore’s AI can read a construction project’s paperwork. Now it is paying $845m to give that AI eyes on the actual site. The construction-software company said it will buy DroneDeploy, a reality- [...]

A development bank just built a €1.4bn insurer in two years

A development bank has just minted a unicorn, and it took two years. Ominimo, a Budapest-based motor insurance startup founded by Serbian and Hungarian entrepreneurs, has closed a Series B led by the [...]

A UK firm trained a “sovereign” NHS triage AI that it says rivals Claude, at a fraction of the cost

The NHS does not lack for AI pitches. What it has lacked is one that keeps patient data inside the country. A British software firm says it now has it. OneAdvanced, the Birmingham-based SaaS company w [...]

Oracle cut 21,000 jobs this year and its SEC filing explicitly blames AI

Oracle’s global workforce fell to 141,000 full-time employees as of 31 May 2026, down from 162,000 a year earlier, a net reduction of roughly 21,000 people. The company’s annual regulatory filing� [...]

A father of the internet wants to give AI agents an identity

Soon the internet will be full of AI agents acting on our behalf. Right now, there is no reliable way to tell who stands behind any of them. Vint Cerf, one of the people who built the internet, wants [...]