Samsung soars to $1 trillion due to AI boom
Samsung was valued at $1 trillion on Wednesday, with the South Korean tech giant’s shares soaring more than 10% as demand for chips fueled by the ongoing artificial intelligence craze. This milestone makes Samsung the second Asian company to cross the $1 trillion threshold after TSMC. The news comes on the heels of Samsung’s blockbuster […]
Some kids evade age verification checks with fake mustaches
Some age verification systems are no match for enterprising kids. Kids discovered they could bypass adult website blocks by simply drawing on fake beards with a makeup pencil. UK-based non-profit organization Internet Matters surveyed 1,000 children about online age verification checks and found that around half said age verification could be easily circumvented. “Children demonstrated […]
reMarkable’s new Paper Pure tablet goes back to basics with a monochrome screen
After tapping into a larger market for productivity tablets with color displays with the Paper Pro and smaller Paper Pro Move, E Ink tablet maker reMarkable is going back to its roots with a new monochrome device called the Paper Pure. The new $399 Paper Pure is the six-year-old successor to the monochrome reMarkable 2, […]
Peter Sarlin’s QuTwo reaches $380 million valuation in angel round
QuTwo, the Finnish AI lab founded by former AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sahlin, has raised an angel round of 25 million euros (about $29 million) and is now valued at 325 million euros (about $380 million). This reflects continued tailwinds for AI, quantum computing, and sovereign technology, particularly for European-made companies. Although QuTwo’s name […]
Marc Lore says AI will soon allow anyone to open a restaurant
Marc Lore, a veteran e-commerce entrepreneur who sold previous startups to Amazon and Walmart, has big plans to bring AI to his current venture, Wonder. At the heart of these plans is Wonder Create, an initiative that uses AI to enable anyone from food entrepreneurs to social media influencers to design and launch their own […]
Bumble’s number of paying users is on the decline as they bet on overhaul later this year
Bumble is gearing up for a major overhaul aimed at winning back Gen Z users (who are currently far too hooked on dating apps), but the company’s latest financials report that it’s still losing paid users. In the first quarter of 2026, the total number of paid users was 3.2 million, down 21.1% from 4 […]
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet talks about his company’s monopoly: no one comes to us
Every time you use AI, you rely in no small part on the 42-year-old, 44,000-employee Dutch company, which spends €4.5 billion every year on technological advancements. ASML is headquartered in the Netherlands and manufactures the machines that make the chips that enable AI. More specifically, it will manufacture the only machine in the world capable […]
Pennsylvania sues Character.AI over chatbot impersonating doctor
The state of Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, alleging that one of the company’s chatbots posed as a psychiatrist, violating the state’s medical licensing rules. “Pennsylvanians have a right to know with whom and what they are doing online, especially when it comes to their health,” Gov. Josh Shapiro said in a statement […]
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT
On Tuesday, OpenAI released a new foundational model called GPT-5.5 Instant. This replaces GPT-5.3 Instant as the default ChatGPT model. The company said the model reduces hallucinations in sensitive areas such as law, medicine, and finance, while maintaining the low latency of its predecessor. OpenAI released its latest GPT-5.5 model last month, claiming improvements in […]
PayPal says it’s ‘becoming a technology company again’ – and that means AI
PayPal is looking to the future despite a drop in its stock price and the threat of layoffs. During the company’s first-quarter earnings call, CEO Enrique Lores told investors that PayPal needs to “recommit to its fundamentals,” including “becoming a technology company again.” There was no need to read between the lines. PayPal was pitching […]