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Fairplay and NCSE ask the FTC to investigate Roblox over child safety and ‘unfair and deceptive’ marketing
‘It’s in the air’: Apple TV’s hottest new shows explore different sides of OnlyFans
How one startup turned backers into believers: MAGFAST broke the crowdfunding mold
Google wants Gemini to help build the next big scientific breakthrough
Android 17 is getting its own version of Apple’s Handoff
Forza Horizon 6 gives Game Pass its next must-play
Discord calls finally get end-to-end encryption, but your DMs didn’t make the cut 
Spotify adds verified podcast badges so you know you’re listening to the real host, and not an AI clone
YouTube gets Gemini Omni for free, but its best AI search features stay behind a paywall
Google announces Pics, a Workspace-native AI image generator that goes after Canva on precision editing
Mercedes-AMG GT EV hits 0-60 in 2 sec, charges at 600kW, and fakes V8 and gear shift sounds
Google launches Gemini Omni Flash, a conversational video-generation model with avatar mode held back
Samsung workers set to strike at worst possible time
Meta starts the 10% cut, with the Singapore office getting the 4 am note first
Berlin’s Dunia Innovations commits €280M to an autonomous AI-materials GigaLab
Plex wants to force its users into a subscription trap, and honestly, I’m a little mad
Apple Sports is ready to track every World Cup heartbreak in real time
Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu M890 as China’s NVIDIA alternative push hardens
Spotting AI images is finally getting easier thanks to OpenAI and Google
Meta offers rival AI chatbots a limited free pass into WhatsApp, on Brussels’ terms
OpenAI plants its first overseas applied-AI lab in Singapore, with a $235M commitment
Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market
Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams
CircuitHub takes $28m from Plural to make PCBs the way clouds make compute
Android 17 is finally getting Apple’s Handoff feature, and it’s about time
RemotePass raises $17.4m Series B from EBRD as global employment meets fintech
Mercedes’ electric AMG GT 4-door coupe can go 0-60 in 2 seconds
Wear OS 7 will keep track of deliveries and sports scores on your wrist
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI
Analog Devices snaps up Empower Semiconductor for $1.5bn to tackle AI’s power problem
SpaceX plans to buy Cursor for $60 billion once its record IPO wraps
Plex is tripling the price of a lifetime pass to $750 after doubling it last year
OpenAI adopts C2PA standard and Google’s SynthID to make AI-generated images easier to identify
Discord now encrypts every voice and video call by default, and not even it can listen in
H2O.ai launches tabH2O, a foundation model that makes predictions from tabular data without any training
GitLab cuts 7% of workforce and flattens management in sweeping ‘agentic era’ restructuring
Demis Hassabis said this might be the ‘foothills of the singularity.’ What?
US regulators pause bank cyber exams so Wall Street can patch Mythos vulnerabilities
We react to Google I/O 2026
Google Play is getting TikTok-style app previews and AI-powered search
Google gives Gemini a morning routine, a new look, and an AI agent that never sleeps
The future of Google is a search box that does everything
Google launches Android CLI 1.0 so AI coding agents can tap into Android Studio’s full power
Google wants to own your entire shopping journey with Universal Cart and agent-led payments
Google and Xreal’s Project Aura smart glasses will ship later this year
Google launches Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant you can email like a colleague
Google’s AI future demands trust — and your personal data
Nintendo’s $500 Switch 2 bundle includes a game, and it’s available now
Google just gave Workspace a 24/7 AI agent that sends emails and books meetings while you sleep
Google wants you to talk to Docs, Keep, and Gmail instead of typing

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