Amazon hopes to jump start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups
Can Kiro win the hearts of startup founders above the many AI coding tools they already have? Amazon hopes a free year will tempt them.
The ascent of the AI therapist
We’re in the midst of a global mental-health crisis. More than a billion people worldwide suffer from a mental-health condition, according to the World Health Organization. The prevalence of anxiety and depression is growing in many demographics, particularly young people, and suicide is claiming hundreds of thousands of lives globally each year. Given the clear…
Could MrBeast IPO? His CEO wants fans to have ‘a chance to be owners of the company’
Would you buy stock in a twenty-seven-year-old named Jimmy?
Roblox banned in Russia, local media says
Russia’s communications agency cited the presence of LGBTQ content on the platform as one of the reasons behind the ban.
Andy Jassy says Amazon’s Nvidia competitor chip is already a multi-billion-dollar business
Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia’s AI chip dominance? Maybe not entirely but Amazon is already making big bucks trying.
Trump administration rolls back fuel economy standards, again
The regulatory decision would make it harder for future administrations to implement stricter fuel efficiency standards.
WordPress’s vibe-coding experiment, Telex, has already been put to real-world use
Though WordPress’s Telex is still an experiment, the vibe coding software has already been used to help build real-world websites.
VCs deploy ‘kingmaking’ strategy to crown AI winners in their infancy
While VCs have long used big investments to spur category winners, they are taking this strategy to new extremes.
San Francisco Is Suing Processed Food Giants Including Coca-Cola, Nestle and Kraft. Here’s Why.
The first-of-its-kind lawsuit accuses major manufacturers of knowingly making and marketing harmful foods and beverages.
‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted
Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers’ data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.
Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s firm nabs $620M government contract
Vulcan Elements, a rare earths startup has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S .defense department.