TV Time, a popular app for tracking the shows you’re watching and engaging in community discussions, is shutting down. The company announced via in-app messages that TV Time’s app will be discontinued, no longer offering service after July 15, 2026. The company blamed the expense of running the platform as a reason behind the decision,…
Wisk Aero, the electric air taxi company owned by Boeing, has been hit with a lawsuit from a former employee, who claims she was fired after raising safety concerns. Former software manager Briahna O’Neill sued Wisk in Santa Clara Superior Court earlier this week, alleging discrimination and wrongful termination. The Seattle Times first reported on…
Back in April, Reuters reported that Anthropic was toying with the idea of producing its own AI chips as a means of responding to chip shortages. Now, it would appear that the company is getting serious about this idea. On Thursday, The Information reported that Anthropic was in contact with Samsung to explore a collaboration…
Hopper, the travel app known for its AI-driven flight and hotel price predictions, has agreed to a $35 million settlement following a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The lawsuit accused the company of misleading users by imposing hidden fees and misrepresenting the total costs of Hopper’s services. The case is another…
I can’t tell the exact tipping point from realistic excitement over a new technology, to hype, to aww-come-on — but I’m pretty sure when a sandwich shop with Danny DeVito as its public face talks about AI in its IPO documents, we must be getting close. So it is with Jersey Mike’s. Because of investor…
WebBrain is a free, open-source browser agent for Chrome and Firefox. It reads pages, extracts data, and automates multi-step tasks. Unlike most browser AI plugins, it can also run entirely on a local model. It is built by Emre Sokullu and licensed under MIT. The full source lives on GitHub. Run the agent against a…
Security researchers have confirmed that a European politician had his phone hacked with the Pegasus spyware while serving on an investigatory committee probing abuses of the notorious surveillance tool. This has reigniting fresh controversy over governments abusing spyware to collect information about their critics. The researchers at the University of Toronto’s digital rights unit The…
Interfaze, a young YC’s startup, has open-sourced a new speech recognition model. It is called diffusion-gemma-asr-small. The model transcribes audio through a diffusion decoder, not an autoregressive one. It is described as the first multilingual audio diffusion ASR model. One adapter handles six languages. The research team trained only about 42M parameters on top of…
Nvidia competitor Etched introduced this week that TSMC had manufactured its first chip earlier this 12 months. Whereas the four-year-old startup valued at $5 billion is on the brink of ship methods powered by that chip to prospects later this summer time, scaling manufacturing might show difficult. Like different chip designers, Etched should compete for…
Militaries routinely ship satellites to fly by rival autos and suss out their capabilities, however scaling up this sort of reconnaissance is more and more seen by the U.S. navy as a problem finest dealt with by the personal sector. That’s why two area startups, True Anomaly and Rocket Lab, accomplished a rendezvous mission for…
