Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron leaves to join autonomous driving startup Waabi as COO
Self-driving truck maker Waabi hired a veteran of the self-driving car industry and Uber’s freight freight CEO Lior Ron to intervene as chief operation officer. This is because the startup appears to be expanding its commercial operations ahead of the launch of driverless trucks on public highways later this year. Rebecca Tinucci, who spent six […]
Australian courts discover that Apple, Google abused App Store Market Powers
Epic Games has just won a crusade against Apple and Google’s App Store policies. A federal court in Australia on Tuesday determined that Apple and Google were engaged in anti-competitive conduct with regard to their respective app stores, ABC News reported. Judge Jonathan Beach found that two tech giants had abused their dominant position in […]
How a research lab that once joined helped Nvidia become a $4 trillion company
When Bildery joined Nvidia’s lab in 2009, it only employed around 12 people and focused on Ray Tracing, a rendering technique used in computer graphics. The once small research lab now employs more than 400 people and helped transform from a video game GPU startup in the 90s into a $4 trillion company that fuels […]
Pronto’s 10 Minute Home Help Pitch Caused a 3.6x Rating Jump in just 90 Days
In 2025, the average urban Indian no longer needs to wait for much (except government offices and traffic). They simply need to order what they need from the app and will be delivered within minutes. The rapid detention explosion within the country means millions of Indians are increasingly used to not having to wait for […]
Slow Venture cuts initial checks from $60 million creator fund to woodworking founders
Slow Ventures’ Creator Fund invested $2 million in Jonathan Katz-Moses, a popular woodworking content creator with around 600,000 followers, with nearly 75 million video views and his own line of woodworking tools. This is Slow’s $60 million creator fund’s first investment since its launch in February. The fund is trying to help creators launch their […]
iOS 26 Beta 6 adds new ringtones, launching Snappy apps and more
On Tuesday, Apple released its sixth developer beta for its mobile operating system, along with updates to iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Mac and more. As the new software approaches its release date in September, changes and tweaks are less important, but there are still some surprises. Beta 6 includes new ringtone choices, final decisions […]
Poshmark CEO and founder to resign
Fashion Resale Marketplace Poshmark announced Monday that its founder, Manish Chandra, has resigned as CEO. Nam-seung Kim, who has served as executive chairman since April, has been appointed his successor. Chandra founded Poshmark in 2011 along with three co-founders in a Silicon Valley garage. Under his leadership, the company was published and acquired by Naver […]
Trump administration will stop illegal freezes of $5 billion EV charger funds after losing in court
The Trump administration has finally issued new guidance that states can use to eliminate funding for electric vehicle charging infrastructure after spending months withholding funds. The National Union has called for a funding freeze in the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, one of the administration’s many attempts to halt funds allocated by Congress at […]
Nvidia announces infrastructure for use in new Cosmos World Models, Robotics and Physical
On Monday, NVIDIA unveiled a set of New World AI models, libraries and other infrastructure for robotics developers. Most notably, COSMOS Reason, a 7 billion parameters “inference” vision language model for physical AI applications and robots. Additionally, participating in existing batches of Cosmos World models are Cosmos Transfer-2, which can accelerate the generation of synthetic […]
Elon Musk confirms the closure of Tesla Dojo, an “evolutionary dead end”
Elon Musk confirmed over the weekend that Tesla disbanded a team working on the Dojo AI training supercomputer a few weeks after expecting Tesla’s second cluster to work on “large scale” in 2026. “When it became clear that all the passes had converged to AI6, Dojo 2 became an evolutionary dead end, and we had […]