Zoox issues lane crossing software recall
Zoox, owned by Amazon, announced a recall on Tuesday because its self-driving system could cause vehicles to cross the center lane near intersections or block crosswalks. The voluntary software recall affected 332 vehicles, according to documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Although there have been no crashes related to this issue, […]
The founders have just raised funding to revisit the same problem: affordable custom home design.
Nick Donahue’s parents were in the home construction business, so Nick Donahue spent his childhood hearing about the construction industry in the United States. His father built homes for major developers and his mother sold to major builders all over the East Coast. Donahue was particularly interested in why designing a custom home is so […]
Marissa Mayer’s startup Dazzle raises $8 million led by Forerunner’s Kirsten Green
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer refuses to sit on the sidelines of the generative AI revolution. After running his photo-sharing and contact management startup Sunshine for the past six years with little success, the celebrated technology leader has shut down the company and launched Dazzle, a new startup focused on building the next generation of […]
Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ now works with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp
Amazon is expanding its AI-powered digital assistant Alexa+ with new features. The company announced Thursday that starting in 2026, it will add four new integrations to the service that will allow Assistant to work with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp. These additional features allow customers to book hotels, get quotes for in-home services, make salon […]
Lemon Slice gets $10.5 million from YC and Matrix to build digital avatar technology
Developers and businesses are increasingly deploying AI agents and chatbots within their apps, but so far they’ve been mostly limited to text. Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working on adding a video layer to chats using a new pervasive model that can create digital avatars from a single image. The model, called Lemon […]
French postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack
France’s national postal and banking services were suspended on Monday due to a suspected distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, La Poste announced. The Postal Service called the attack a “major network incident” that disrupted “all information systems.” La Poste’s online email and banking services, website and mobile app are among the services that will […]
Inside Uzbekistan’s nationwide license plate monitoring system
Across Uzbekistan, a network of about 100 high-definition roadside cameras continuously scan vehicle license plates and occupants, sometimes thousands a day, looking for potential traffic violations. A car running a red light. Drivers not wearing seat belts. Some examples include unauthorized vehicles driving at night. The driver of one of the most monitored vehicles in […]
OpenAI says AI browsers can always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks
OpenAI is working to harden its Atlas AI browser against cyberattacks and acknowledges that prompt injection is a type of attack that manipulates an AI agent to follow malicious instructions hidden in web pages or emails. This is a risk that isn’t going away anytime soon, raising questions about how securely AI agents can operate […]
Alphabet to acquire Intersect Power to avoid energy grid bottlenecks
Google’s parent company Alphabet has agreed to acquire data center and clean energy developer Intersect Power for $4.75 billion in cash and assuming the company’s debt. The acquisition, announced Monday, will help Alphabet expand power generation capacity alongside new data centers without relying on local power companies that have struggled to meet the demands of […]
Trump administration suspends 6GW of offshore wind leases again
Two weeks after a judge reversed President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking offshore wind energy development, the White House is again suspending leases for five large projects, this time citing concerns about radar interference. “Today’s actions address emerging national security risks, including the rapid evolution of associated adversarial technologies and the vulnerabilities created by large-scale […]