Data from Estonia’s Odience shows niche creator communities are outselling mass reach

The internet fractured one giant audience into thousands of tight-knit communities, and the brands paying attention are following the trust, not the follower count. Having run performance-based influe [...]

World open-sources ProveKit to bring private ID checks to everyday smartphones

The technology behind World ID can let people prove their age, nationality or possession of a valid ID without handing over the personal information behind it World is opening up one of the privacy te [...]

Camera-free smart-glasses maker Even Realities hits $1bn on a $150M raise

Meta has sold millions of camera-equipped smart glasses, and landed in a privacy storm for it. A Shenzhen startup is betting $1bn that the smarter move is to leave the camera off. Even Realities has r [...]

California will tax downloaded software for the first time as part of a $351.7 billion budget deal

California Governor Gavin Newsom and top Democratic legislators agreed on a $351.7 billion state budget that will extend sales tax to prewritten software downloaded from the web. The tax is expected t [...]

GM’s Q2 sales fell four percent as EV demand dropped and Toyota closed in

General Motors’ second-quarter US sales fell just over four percent as demand for its all-electric vehicles and Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks declined year over year. The Detroit automaker repor [...]

China wants its green power wired straight into the data centre

In the desert outside Zhongwei, in the northwestern region of Ningxia, four dedicated power lines now run from a field of solar panels to a cluster of computers. They do not pass through the public gr [...]

The world’s mathematicians just issued a formal declaration telling AI companies to stop using their work without permission

A coalition of mathematicians from institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Columbia, and Northwestern has published a formal declaration calling on the mathematical community to confront [...]

SpaceX’s first employee just raised $500 million for the company that moves satellites once rockets put them in the wrong orbit

Impulse Space, the orbital transfer vehicle startup founded by Tom Mueller, has raised $500 million in a Series D round that values the company at $4.26 billion. The round was co-led by 137 Ventures a [...]

Palo Alto Networks shareholders have rejected executive pay seven times, and the CEO still earns nearly $100 million

A majority of Palo Alto Networks shareholders have voted against the cybersecurity company’s executive compensation packages seven times since 2015, a record that makes it the most rejected pay prog [...]