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At libraries around the country, “Avoiding AI” workshops have elicited unprecedented demand…

In Brief Posted: 1:55 PM PDT · July 25, 2026 Image Credits:Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg / Getty Images Warner Bros. Discovery filed a lawsuit this week accusing Amazon of interference with contractual relations, breach of contract, and unfair competition. As reported by Deadline, the lawsuit alleges Amazon has been “hurriedly seeking to pirate away a number…

Elon Musk’s tunneling startup The Boring Company is in talks to raise a $4 billion funding round at a valuation of $20 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal hasn’t closed and the terms could change, the WSJ says. At $20 billion, the valuation would be a significant increase from The Boring Company’s…

Udit Mehrotra is a distinguished product leader who currently serves as Head of Product for North America Languages Experience at Amazon. getty​A few months after one of the AI features I shipped went live, I was sitting in a business review when someone asked a version of the question I had been quietly dreading: Is…

Amazon created Prime Day to reward its most loyal shoppers. More than a decade later, the event has grown far beyond Amazon. Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Kohl’s, and other major retailers now routinely launch competing promotions around Prime Day, turning a once Amazon-centric sale into one of the …

9:11 AM PDT · July 24, 2026 World, the online verification startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, has raised $52.5 million through a crypto token sale to strategic investors. Participating investors joined a 12-month lockup sale of World’s token, WLD. Lockup periods prevent asset buyers from selling or trading their tokens for a set period…