This Retailer Shut Its Fitting Rooms and Angered Customers. It Might Boost Sales Anyway.
The teen retailer has quietly shut its fitting rooms across its 55-plus US stores. Customers are furious, but sales are up.
Apple Is Developing AirPods With Cameras — But They Won’t Take a Single Photo
According to Bloomberg, the cameras will act as eyes for Siri, letting the AI assistant understand the world around you.
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Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI
Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be costly and reliability is at a premium.
SpaceX’s First Big Move After Its Record IPO: Buying a $60 Billion AI Coding Startup
xAI has struggled to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI on AI coding tools. Cursor is Musk’s answer.
The Old Product Research Playbook Is Broken. Here Are the 5 Shifts Replacing It.
Product research has changed fast. What used to be a phase before launch is now a continuous practice that shapes how products get built.
SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants
Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.
Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom
The Canadian pension giant will acquire an 8.2% stake in CtrlS, a tech giant that operates more than 15 data centers across India.
DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation
With this acquisition, DeepL is opening an office in San Francisco to expand its U.S. business.
The Investor Who Turned Arby’s Into a $20 Billion Empire Just Bought Pizza Hut for $1.5 Billion
Yum Brands has agreed to sell Pizza Hut to LongRange Capital, which engineered Arby’s comeback and now wants to do the same for pizza.
Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027
This will be the second market to have an Uber robotaxi service outfitted with Lucid EVs equipped with a self-driving system from Nuro.
Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’
Pinterest has launched ‘Ask Pinterest,’ an experimental AI-powered shopping app that lets users seek recommendations and inspiration through a conversational interface.