timef 01/07/2026

You can choose a tag that gives others in the group chat more context about who you are.

You can tap a friend’s listening activity to play the track, save it, open the menu, or react with an emoji.

The studio's board unanimously rejected Paramount Skydance's revised $108.4 billion bid, calling the proposal a "leveraged buyout" that would saddle the company with $87 billion in debt.

Spotify is dropping the minimum episode requirement to three, minimum consumption hours to 2,000, and engaged audience member threshold to 1,000 over the last 30 days.

Once users complete an age check, they can access age-based chat, which means they can only communicate with others in a similar age group.

Articul8's valuation for its current funding round marks a roughly fivefold increase since its Series A.

Calacanis, General Catalyst's Taneja, and McKinsey's Sternfels discussed how AI is reshaping technology and the labor force.

Chinese officials are reportedly reviewing whether the Meta deal violates technology export controls, potentially giving Beijing leverage it wasn't initially perceived as having.

CES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of days occupied by press conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMD and previews from Sunday’s Unveiled event.  As has been the case for the past two years at CES, AI is at the forefront of […]

The most surprising part is that the plastic isn't the biggest problem.

When fake content goes viral, the damage has already been done, even if the post is debunked.

Mentee Robotics was co-founded by Mobileye president Amnon Shashua.

Nvidia is among the many investors, but xAI has not disclosed if these investments come in the form of equity or debt.

“Our children cannot be used as lab rats for Big Tech to experiment on,” Senator Steve Padilla said. He just introduced a bill to ban AI chatbots in toys until safety regulations are developed.  

From an AI panda pet to an anime girl hologram for your desk, here are the wildest products at CES 2026.

Intel has been building chips designed for gaming PCs for years but the company is now moving into handheld devices too.

LMArena, which started as a UC Berkeley research project, has raised about $250 million total and become a unicorn in about seven months.

Bryan Fleming, the founder of hacked stalkerware company pcTattletale, pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to the running of his now-defunct Michigan-based spyware company.

Nvidia announced today at CES 2026 that it would help Siemens’ electronic design automation (EDA) software run on its GPUs in an attempt to speed up the chip-design process. Nearly all computer chips today are designed using EDA tools, and as chip features get smaller and transistors more numerous, the process has grown more computationally […]

Mario Götze will go down in soccer history as the player who scored the winning goal that made Germany the 2014 FIFA World Cup champion. But he is also an increasingly seasoned angel investor.

Launching in-message games would give Threads an edge over competitors like X and Bluesky, which don’t offer built-in games.

The fusion power frontrunner said that construction on its Sparc reactor was proceeding as planned. Meanwhile, it's building a digital twin to help dial it in.