Category Archives: Tech News

How Reddit moderators are battling AI-powered astroturfing ad campaigns that exploit the platform’s trusted reputation to promote skincare and other products (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Featured Podcasts Training Data: Chai Discovery’s Bitter Lesson: Drug Design Is Another Scaling Problem Sequoia [...]

05
Aug
Apple asks a US judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former staff and OpenAI from accessing, acquiring, using, or disclosing confidential info (Reuters)

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s Podcast: This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO [...]

04
Aug
Japanese startups are racing to enter defense drone production, as Tokyo seeks to cut reliance on Chinese industrial drones, which control 91% of Japan's market (Mitsuru Obe/Nikkei Asia)

Mitsuru Obe / Nikkei Asia: Japanese startups are racing to enter defense drone production, as [...]

03
Aug
A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show With John Gruber: ‘What’s in Louie’s Wallet’, With Louie Mantia [...]

02
Aug
A German court rules that Suno has violated copyrights and must disclose illicit revenue after Germany's state-mandated licensing agency GEMA sued in 2025 (Elizabeth Grenier/Deutsche Welle)

Elizabeth Grenier / Deutsche Welle: A German court rules that Suno has violated copyrights and [...]

31
Jul
Meta reports $279B in future lease agreements in Q2 related to AI data centers that are not reflected on its balance sheet, up 53% from the prior period (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts The Upstarts Podcast: Basis’s Matt Harpe: Why AI Won’t Replace Accountants — It’ll [...]

30
Jul
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: comfortable when shut, 4:3 inner display is great, and impressive battery life, but no telephoto or IP68 and some app errors (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Dominic Preston / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: comfortable when shut, 4:3 [...]

29
Jul
Apple launches Apple Upgrade, a new US leasing program in partnership with Klarna that replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program, starting at $17.99/month for iPhones (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple launches Apple Upgrade, a new US leasing program in partnership [...]

28
Jul
Nvidia launches the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition with Hugging Face and others to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Nvidia launches the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition with Hugging [...]

27
Jul
Crypto exchanges like tradeXYZ are giving global investors exposure to Chinese AI-linked stocks like CXMT, bypassing Beijing's control on foreign capital access (William Sandlund/Financial Times)

William Sandlund / Financial Times: Crypto exchanges like tradeXYZ are giving global investors exposure to [...]

26
Jul