Al Gore has spent more than two decades as one of the most recognizable voices in the climate movement, so when he talks about AI, it’s worth trying to understand what he considers truly scary compared with what’s disturbing people so much that they are protesting in the streets. In an interview with TechCrunch this … Read more
It turns out that the one thing that can apparently bridge Washington’s partisan divide is AM radio. U.S. automakers may be forced to build AM radio into new vehicles within the next year. The House of Representatives, in a rare instance of bipartisan support, overwhelmingly approved legislation on Wednesday that would require new cars, trucks, … Read more
Cap table management platform Pulley announced this week on its website that it was shutting down, and its final day of operations and services will be December 8. In a twist, it said it has partnered with its rival, Carta, to offload customers; it’s also redirecting prospective clients to Carta. Yin Wu, a serial founder … Read more
Marketing platform Noise aims to connect brands with content creators at a much lower cost than hiring traditional influencers or running standard ad campaigns. That’s because many creators on the Noise platform are everyday people—anyone can download the app, regardless of follower count — and Noise presents them with campaigns they can join and create … Read more
X will now allow users to trade from their timelines. The Elon Musk-owned social network on Wednesday launched a feature called Cashtag that will let U.S. users on X place stock trades via participating brokerages. Initial partners in the effort include Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase. The move takes advantage of what users … Read more
Meta’s camera-equipped smart glasses have proven more successful than other entrants into the market, but they have also deeply disturbed certain consumers who see them as invasive emblems of a dystopian surveillance society run amok. Now, as the company weathers complaints that it’s selling “pervert glasses,” it has reportedly decided to sell a pair that … Read more
Elisa de Martel, who was chief financial officer at Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle company Waymo, has been hired to the same position at buzzy self-driving vehicle startup Wayve. Outgoing CFO Max Warburton, who held the position at Wayve since 2024, is moving into a strategic advisory role supporting the company’s leadership team. Her appointment as CFO … Read more
When you imagine working with a computer, you likely think of keyboards, clicks, or typing on your phone. Science Corporation CEO Max Hodak has spent the last several months advancing a different vision. His company has enlisted a top neurobiologist to lead the first U.S. human trials for its biohybrid brain-computer interface. Hodak shares what … Read more
The ShinyHunters hacking group has published hundreds of thousands of files from a Florida state database of vehicles and driver information. The hackers said they published the stolen data on its leak site “because the victim did not pay a ransom or cooperate and comply” with the hackers’ demands. The hackers said they breached the … Read more
Smart home owners will soon be able to control their devices connected to Google Home via an AI agent. On Tuesday, Google rolled out early access to its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for its Google Home ecosystem, which will allow any AI agent that supports MCP — like Claude, Hermes, OpenClaw, ChatGPT, and Google … Read more