OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says
Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple’s Portrait Mode.
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AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance
The company also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time is wasted waiting for data to arrive.
Amazon Prime Video takes on TikTok with short-form news clips
Prime Video is adding on-demand local and national news clips as Amazon joins other streamers experimenting with short-form video to capture younger viewers.
ClickFix attacks are tricking Mac and Windows users into hacking themselves
If you clicked on a fake HBO Max ad on Reddit in the past week, you might have fallen victim to a rising “ClickFix” security threat.
Volkswagen’s crazy-efficient EV borrows an idea from Slate
Volkswagen’s new efficiency-minded halo car is almost twice as efficient as the most efficient production car, the Lucid Air.
With iOS 27, I’m actually using Siri again
Apple’s long-delayed Siri overhaul is finally here with iOS 27, and it changes how useful the assistant feels day to day.
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup offering fun music apps without any AI prompting
Former Spotify exec’s company releases experimental “singles” that involves users in music making.
Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock
Oracle had previously disclosed that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion.
The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs
From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.
What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?
On Equity, we discussed the AI industry’s latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.