From teen hacker to Iron Dome researcher, this founder raised $28M to fight AI phishing
Ocean, an agentic email security platform, raised funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.
The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined…
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Roundtables: Inside the Musk v. Altman Trial
Listen to the session or watch below Elon Musk lost his suit against OpenAI, in which he alleged CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman had deceived him over the company’s non-profit status. Watch as AI reporter and attorney Michelle Kim, who covered the trial for MIT Technology Review, joins in conversation with editor in…
Elon Musk said Sam Altman “stole” a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims
“By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America.”
Google takes a page out of Meta’s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses
Google is back in the glasses game with “audio glasses” out this fall.
Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View
Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather changes, and rare scenarios.
With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company’s annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building software from scratch.
How to use Google’s new information agents
Google is launching AI-powered “information agents” that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.
Google Search as you know it is over
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
Google’s AI now lets you talk to your Gmail inbox
Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.
Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes
Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.