Google’s new Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents can search the web and your private data

Google on Monday unveiled the most significant upgrade to its autonomous research agent capabilities since the product's debut, launching two new agents — Deep Research and Deep Research Max †[...]

Suno investor admits she ditched Spotify for AI music, accidentally undermining the company's fair use defense

Suno investor C.C. Gong told X she barely uses Spotify anymore, accidentally undermining the company's fair use defense and handing the music industry a powerful argument in its lawsuit against t [...]

Amazon’s AI push is undermining its sustainability goals

Amazon’s decarbonization goals are being undermined by its push to be a leader in generative AI. Its most recent sustainability report concedes its overall carbon emissions grew for the first time s [...]

Apple decides undermining its own email privacy feature was a bad idea after all

Apple decides undermining its own email privacy feature was a bad idea after all. [...]

Amazon and Chobani adopt Strella's AI interviews for customer research as fast-growing startup raises $14M

One year after emerging from stealth, Strella has raised $14 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered customer research platform, the company announced Thursday. The round, led by Bessemer [...]

5 Lifesaving Uses for a Portable Power Station

When dangerously low temperatures bring ice storms, you'll be glad you have a power station to stay warm. [...]

Google’s Pixel Watch 4 just beat Apple to a lifesaving satellite trick – here’s how it works

The Google Pixel Watch 4 comes with emergency satellite connectivity, beating Apple to this new feature –here's how it works in practice. [...]

Nimble claims its new, domain-specialized Web Search Agents cut token costs in half while boosting retrieval accuracy

Nimble, a New York City-based tech startup VentureBeat previously covered for its efforts to re-invent web search for enterprises by using multiple AI agents to improve accuracy and depth, is taking a [...]

Trump's defunding of NASA would be catastrophic

"This is probably the most uncertain future NASA has faced, maybe since the end of Apollo," Casey Dreier tells me over the phone. Dreier is the chief of space policy at The Planetary Society [...]