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 […]
Ford will dump Henry Ford assembly line to create a low-cost EV in America
Ford said Monday it would invest $2 billion to transform its Louisville assembly plant into a factory that can manufacture a new generation of affordable EVS, starting with a base price of $30,000, with a base price of $30,000. This is not a standard factory upgrade. To reduce manufacturing costs, Ford improved the mobile assembly […]
Automaker web portal security flaws
Security researchers said a flaw in the automaker’s online dealer portal could have made it public with customer personal information and vehicle data, allowing hackers to remotely break into one of the customer’s vehicles. Eaton Zveare, a security researcher at software distribution company Harness, told TechCrunch that the flaws he discovered allowed him to create […]
Stanford is sticking to legacy admission
Stanford University has confirmed that its fall 2026 admissions policy will continue to take legacy status into account. This is a decision that could impact access to one of Silicon Valley’s most important talent pipelines. Stanford has also ended its Test Options policy and is requesting a SAT or ACT score for the first time […]
After researchers masked prolific SMS scammers, new operations emerged as a result
Like others who have a mobile phone in the US and later, if you receive fraudulent text messages about email items with no unpaid tolls or withdrawals, you could have been targeted for prolific fraudulent operations. The fraud was not particularly complicated, but it was very effective. From mail delivery to local government programs, by […]