App Store Submissions Have Surged 84%. Now Apple Is Declaring War on Vibe Coding.
Tools that allow anyone to build apps without coding skills is straining Apple’s review infrastructure.
Europe is pushing back on Washington’s chip war
As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools — gear first shipped about a decade ago — the same machines the MATCH Act would now put off limits.
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The Upper Middle Class Used to Be an Exclusive Club. Now Its Membership Is Booming.
The upper middle class has tripled since 1979, and it’s transforming what businesses sell and who they sell to.
Anthropic ups compute deal with Google and Broadcom amid skyrocketing demand
Anthropic bulked up its compute deal with Google and Broadcom as the company has seen its run-rate revenue surge to $30 billion.
Google Maps can now write captions for your photos using AI
Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video.
A teenage Minecraft YouTuber raised $1,234,567 for a meme prediction market called Giggles. It broke me.
Justin Jin’s company Giggles – which he describes as “putting a trading app and TikTok together” – started as a joke.
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Trump administration plans to cut cybersecurity agency’s budget by $700 million
The budget proposal would force CISA to operate with a significantly lower budget than previous years, citing the government’s claims that the election misinformation programs were used to “target the President.”
Why a former AirPods engineer is now building heat pumps
Merino Energy has simplified the heat pump dramatically in a quest to make them cheaper and easier to install.
The AI gold rush is pulling private wealth into riskier, earlier bets
On a recent episode of Equity, we talked to Arena Private Wealth to explore a growing trend: family offices bypassing VCs to gain direct exposure to AI startups, turning them from passive investors into active participants.
Adobe launches Acrobat Spaces, a free AI-powered study tool for students
Adobe Acrobat Spaces is a free tool for students to use AI and create different kind of study material from documents