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Image Credits:Smith Collection/Gado / Getty Images 9:00 AM PDT · July 29, 2025 Google announced on Tuesday that it’s adding new capabilities to AI Mode, its experimental feature that allows users to ask complex questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic directly within Search. One of the new features, Canvas, helps you build study…

Image Credits:Astronomer 12:40 PM PDT · July 26, 2025 After spending the past week-plus in the headlines due to a seemingly inescapable social media scandal, data operations startup Astronomer is trying to shift the narrative with a tongue-in-cheek video starring actress and entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow. Paltrow was, of course, previously married to Coldplay singer Chris…

GM’s EVs have been on a roll lately. After selling just the Chevy Bolt for years, a wave of new models — now up to 17 fully electrified vehicles — has pushed the automaker into second place in the U.S. behind Tesla.  How did it get there? With a little help from a Tesla veteran.…

Tesla is launching an even-more-limited version of its early robotaxi service in San Francisco this weekend, according to Business Insider, after an initial rollout began last month in Austin, Texas. The company plans to send invites to Tesla owners to test the service, according to the report. Depending on how and if Tesla proceeds, its…

Contract review remains a slow, manual process that strains legal teams, forcing lawyers to sift through dense language, flag risks, and translate legal terms. In fact, the problem is so prevalent that for the past several years, Tokyo-based LegalOn Technologies has had an open door to that market: its AI contract review software for legal…

Image Credits:Sashkinw / Getty Images 5:00 PM PDT · July 23, 2025 A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.  On Wednesday at 5 p.m. PT, the nonprofit Laude Institute announced the first winner of the K Prize, a multi-round AI coding challenge…

Amazon has acquired the AI wearables startup Bee, which makes a bracelet and an Apple Watch app that record your day-to-day life to function as an AI assistant…

PayPal is partnering with global fintech companies to let users pay to different wallet systems cross border…

South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI announced a partnership on Tuesday to supply its AI chip, RNGD, to enterprises using LG AI Research‘s recently unveiled EXAONE platform. RNGD is optimized for running large language models (LLMs) and just last week, the Korean tech giant LG unveiled its next-generation hybrid AI model EXAONE 4.0. The collaboration…

In Brief Posted: 7:29 PM PDT · July 21, 2025 Image Credits:AaronP / Bauer-Griffin / GC Images / Getty Images The Tesla Diner & Drive-In, a long-awaited and hyped facility that combines retro nostalgia and futurism with the automaker’s fast-charging network, officially opened at 4:20 p.m. Monday in Hollywood, California. The Tesla Diner & Drive-In…