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“Menu AI … has been able to generate and manage menus from a pool of 400 seasonal recipes in a single day, rather than the two to four weeks of manual work that would have been necessary before AI”
“If you only have the free account that you create when you set up your glasses in the Meta AI app, you’ll just have three hours of conversation focus a month (as spotted by The Verge).”
“I don't, I would fail, and here's why I would fail.”
“The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 AI model after the company agreed to extend an existing guardrail to prevent users from trying to access certain restricted capabilities, according to two people…”
“Sony PlayStation said Wednesday it plans to end production of new video game discs – a feature of the media and entertainment landscape for three-plus decades – by January 2028.”
“seven in 10 children who held accounts on restricted platforms on Dec. 10 remained on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok.”
“Companies like SpaceX and Reflect Orbital are proposing launching a combined total of 1.7 million satellites.”
“I think we’re back to a Darwinian moment where everybody has to figure out who’s really good, Arora said recently during an episode of the 20VC podcast. “[Workers] have to learn. I can’t send them to university; there’s no course you can t…”
“Just two years in, the company already has more than 850,000 unique visitors to its website, and serves more than 3 million active users and an average of 1.7 million API calls per day.”
“The French Prime Minister has also promised 30,000 air conditioners, with the first deliveries scheduled for the start of next week.”
“the government predicts will be up and running at least 18 months after that bill becomes law.”
“It surged to a market cap of $6,384,122,903 (more than £5,200,000,000) – within just 12 hours.”
“On June 11, South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission fined Coupang $410 million — nearly twice its profit last year — after finding that the company had illegally harvested customer data.”
“Electric flying taxis could be above the streets of London by 2028, a manufacturer has claimed. Here’s what you need to know. Vertical Aerospace is still testing the aircraft and it will need to be approved by both the approval from the UK…”
“The app now has more than 800 colleges onboarded, and Solomon said Fizz is "well north of a million users" in the US. Around half of its active users use the app every single day, Solomon added.”
“checkout‑free retail experience has increased revenue by 56%”
“Finally, according to Meta itself, conversation focus is handled entirely on-device. Your Meta AI glasses can offer the function without an internet connection, meaning it shouldn’t be costing its data centers anything to process.”
“We're talking about at least half a decade of horror, building all that stuff.”
“The Commerce Department also ultimately cleared Fable 5 for release after researchers at its Center for AI Standards and Innovation decided the safeguards on the model were sufficiently robust for now, the people added.”
“Netflix wound down its DVD-by-mail business in 2023.”
“As of today, both SpaceX and Reflect Orbital are waiting for approval to launch their satellite constellations from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).”
“The CEO is letting natural attrition run its course—with around 2% of employees leaving each month—then replaces them with workers who have proven their AI chops. “We hire from hackathons. Give me 12 months, [and] I’ll have transformed 20%…”
“However, Voorhees said only about 8% of the company’s users pay with crypto.”
“Indie distributor Neon has acquired "Artificial," Luca Guadagnino's starry drama about Sam Altman and OpenAI, after Amazon MGM Studios abruptly dropped the nearly finished film earlier this month. The decision is widely being read as fallo…”
“Coupang faced 40 investigations from 11 different South Korean agencies, threats of travel bans for its executives and potential fines of up to 10% of its global revenue, the report said.”
“According to data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, Fizz has been downloaded more than 2.2 million times globally.”
“The other, unnamed university is seeing a 28% lift in sales and an 11% boost to the average check size”
“In addition to this, Meta One Premium will also give you access to more advanced Meta AI reasoning models through the app, and expanded access to image and video generation models.”
“According to The Verge, Microsoft is thinking about closing at least five studios and Arkane is among those on the chopping block.”
“But Motorola is now making it even more hassle-free by building a native travel eSIM experience into its smartphones. The capability is initially available as an app customers will have to download from the Google Play Store, called Global…”
“Dyson launched the Airstrait in early 2024 as a new category rather than an update to an existing tool.”
“Google leader Sundar Pichai has cautioned that no career path is fully protected from AI’s disruption, advising professionals to take matters into their own hands. In his eyes, everyone’s role could be impacted by the new tech—even admitti…”
“Users can buy VVV and then stake it to mint DIEM, which generates $1 worth of AI credits per day that you can spend on Venice.”
“The same deal expanded OpenAI's existing cloud agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to roughly $138 billion (€121bn) and made AWS the exclusive third-party distributor for Frontier, OpenAI's enterprise platform.”
“The December mission focused on a rogue Coupang employee, a Chinese national who had allegedly extracted the personal data of 3,000 customers — a tiny fraction of the 33 million who were caught in a massive data breach at the company repor…”
“Fizz plans to expand beyond the college market in the US in 2027, Solomon said.”
“The company has also deployed about 200 robots globally, including 100 floor‑cleaning robots across all regions and 85 delivery robots”
“As explained in the help article, “Meta One is currently in limited testing and isn't available everywhere yet.””
“It was announced with a cinematic trailer at The Game Awards 2023”
“Sudhir Chadaga, vice president for partnerships at Motorola, says customers have to install the Global Connect app, create a Gigs account, and they'll get 1 GB for free with their first travel eSIM (available for a limited time), after whi…”
“Two 1.5mm apertures along the inside of each arm force air at 3.6 kilopascals of pressure at a 45-degree downward angle.”
“Micha Kaufman, the CEO of freelance marketplace Fiverr, also issued a warning to professionals: the tech is changing and automating every single role, all the way up to C-suite. And he echoes Pichai in also believing that his coveted, top …”
“Venice launched a token called “VVV” in early January, in a bid to attract users, Voorhees said, and in August last year added another, called “DIEM.””
“Between Dec. 1 and Dec. 26, the NIS exchanged more than 230 phone calls with Coupang related to its investigation into the data breach and also held several in-person meetings with the company about the recovery plan, the report added.”
“The app now has more than 800 colleges onboarded, and Solomon said Fizz is "well north of a million users" in the US.”
“generate and manage menus from a pool of 400 seasonal recipes in a single day, rather than the two to four weeks of manual work that would have been necessary before AI”
“A Statement From Windscribe About Our CEO's Personal DonationsYou may have heard in recent days that Mullvad's co-founder and co-owner, Daniel Berntsson, donated ~$500,000 of his personal money to the controversial populist Örebro Party in…”
“Marvel’s Blade was planned to release at the end of this year, but now the launch date has been pushed back to 2027 - if indeed, at all.”
“Siddhant Cally, a senior analyst on the Networks and Connectivity team at Counterpoint Research, says that in some regions, legacy network operators were offering roaming for half the data but at double the price of travel eSIMs.”
“Wet Mode offers three temperature settings on the Airstrait. Fine, thin, or color-treated hair should be set to 175°F. Medium hair takes 230°F. Thick, coarse, or curly hair gets 285°F.”
“And while Nvidia billionaire Jensen Huang doesn’t personally believe that AI can replace his role, he does recognize that competition comes with tech-savvy talent. Instead of fretting over a chatbot or robot stepping on their toes, workers…”
“Coupang’s interim CEO Harold Rogers told House Judiciary officials that he “never would’ve authorized an employee to go to China” or “authorized hiring a diving crew in broad daylight in China to retrieve a device unless [he] firmly believ…”
“Around half of its active users use the app every single day, Solomon added.”
“initially piloted at around five to ten sites”
“PlayStation has announced that it will end the production of disc releases after more than 30 years of physical games, confirming that everything that you buy will be digital-only from January 2028 onwards.”
“But now Microsoft is thinking about binning the title, which has been in development since 2022.”
“While Motorola claims this is the first time a major smartphone manufacturer has embedded a travel eSIM function natively into its phones, Chinese phone maker Xiaomi offered a similar virtual travel SIM function as far back as 2015, though…”
“I think we’re back to a Darwinian moment where everybody has to figure out who’s really good, Arora said recently during an episode of the 20VC podcast. “[Workers] have to learn. I can’t send them to university; there’s no course you can t…”
“About half of US consumers are using AI-powered search to evaluate and discover brands, according to research published in October by McKinsey.”
“seeing a 28% lift in sales”
“I’m all for great cover art, but the PlayStation case I’ll always remember is that of the original Metal Gear Solid from 1998.”
“It's why US carriers like T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T have tried to counter the challenge of third-party travel eSIM apps to their roaming business with their own travel eSIM options for people entering the US during the World Cup.”
“In leading Palo Alto into the next era, Arora says he’s hiring “only through” hackathons to bolster tech skills among his 21,000-strong workforce. … “We hire from hackathons. Give me 12 months, [and] I’ll have transformed 20% [to] 25% of m…”
“A recent Similarweb study on ChatGPT use found that, on average, people were 2.5 times as likely to visit the recommended brand's site as a competitor's.”
“an 11% boost to the average check size”
“I've been on one PlayStation or another for around 25 years.”
“It's available for any Motorola phone with eSIM capabilities—including smartphones as cheap as the $180 2026 Moto G Play—though it's currently only available for use in a handful of Latin American markets: Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, …”
“Google leader Sundar Pichai has cautioned that no career path is fully protected from AI’s disruption, advising professionals to take matters into their own hands. In his eyes, everyone’s role could be impacted by the new tech—even admitti…”
“Mehra leans on Profound and AirOps to measure visibility in these answer engines.”
“about 200 robots globally, including 100 floor‑cleaning robots across all regions and 85 delivery robots”
“I was around nine years old.”
“In the US, Apple has been selling eSIM-only iPhones since 2022; Motorola's entire range, from budget to flagship, supports eSIMs; Google's latest Pixel 10 series are eSIM-only.”
“AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it’s coming for my job, too. This is a wake-up call,” Kaufman warned in an interview with Fortune earlier this year.”
“agreed to make its newest AI model, GPT-5.6 Sol, available only to customers that were approved by the U.S. government”
“but when the Special Edition debuted with a physical disc and a handful of real cards from the game it was an immediate buy for me.”
“Cally says the market is saturated with thousands of travel eSIM options, from Airalo to Nomad to Holafly.”
“It is unlikely most people will lose a job to AI,” Huang said during an interview at the Stanford Graduate School of Business earlier this year. “It is most likely that most people will lose their job to somebody who uses AI. And so we hav…”
“struck a state‑level deal with California that will expand the use of the company’s Claude products to state and local agencies at a discounted cost”
“I used to love putting the disc in to install the game, then poring over the map, marvelling at the ever-expanding size of the titles and trying to figure out secrets and cool places to visit. It was part of the experience, almost like you…”
“Starting in its new fiscal year at the end of July, Cisco (No. 83 on the Fortune 500) is rolling out AI agents to its approximately 90,000 employees.”
“Google has curbed Meta’s use of its AI models after the Facebook and Instagram parent company wanted to use more computing capacity than Google could provide”
“Rockstar’s move to not include an actual disc in the ‘physical’ release of GTA 6, instead just having a download code, means the biggest game of the generation, maybe even of all time, won’t really be having a physical release”
“While a typical chat may use a few thousand tokens, complex agent tasks can consume hundreds of thousands to millions in a single run.”
“42% say they save eight hours per week with these tools”
“TechRadar's own polling found that nearly 1 in 4 readers use free VPNs despite knowing the risks.”
“about half now report using AI chatbots”
“74% reporting they use these tools a few times each week or even daily, up 23 percentage points from its 2025 AI at Work survey”
“On June 12, Anthropic received a US government export control directive. The directive suspended access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for foreign nationals, including Anthropic employees. Anthropic said the practical effect was that it had to di…”
“with roughly one in four using them daily”
“66% say their organizations give little or no guidance”
“Anthropic pushed back, saying it had not been shown evidence of a broad or universal jailbreak. Access is now being restored after the US Commerce Department lifted the restrictions. Reuters reports the restrictions were lifted after enhan…”
“44% saying they use ChatGPT specifically”
“I think we’re back to a Darwinian moment where everybody has to figure out who’s really good, Arora said recently during an episode of the 20VC podcast. “[Workers] have to learn. I can’t send them to university; there’s no course you can t…”
“40% believe AI will have a negative impact on society over the next 20 years”
“In his eyes, everyone’s role could be impacted by the new tech—even admitting that his own CEO job is “one of the easier things” that AI could take over one day. Pichai emphasized that the tools will create new work opportunities, but also…”
“about two-thirds say it is advancing too quickly”
“AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it’s coming for my job, too. This is a wake-up call,” Kaufman warned in an interview with Fortune earlier this year. A year on, he has a message for the C-suite trying to ride out the AI tsunami: “Don’t be…”
“71% worry it will make personal information less secure”
“I’d say 80%-90% of the first draft, at least, is now done by AI.”
“Only 16% expect a positive societal impact”
