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Why Expedia Is Building AI Agents Through Evaluations, Not Requirements Documents

Xavi Amatriain argues that encoding product intent into evals shifts security and design decisions left, while most enterprises still don't trust the automated checks they're already deploying.

By Daniel R. Whitfield·Jul 22, 2026·5 min read
Startups

Sila Secures $300 Million to Scale Silicon Anode Production in Washington

The battery materials company is betting on alternatives to Chinese graphite as global EV sales climb, despite headwinds in the U.S. market

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Policy

America's Grid Faces a Power Crunch as AI Data Centers Claim One-Fifth of Electricity

New forecasts show data center electricity demand quadrupling by 2035, with regional grids already buckling under connection requests and so

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
AI

Suno's Silent Breach: What 55 Million Stolen Records Tell Us About AI Music's Hidden Risks

A November cyberattack exposed customer data and source code, revealing alleged copyright violations while the company stayed quiet for eigh

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
Startups

Block Launches Buzz to Merge Team Chat and AI Agents in One Workspace

Jack Dorsey's payments company is betting that the future of collaboration requires humans and autonomous software working side-by-side, not

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Startups

Tesla Expands Florida Robotaxi Footprint Despite Stalled Scale-Up

The EV maker has quietly launched unsupervised Model Y pilots in Orlando and Tampa, adding pressure ahead of its Q2 earnings as earlier Texa

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
Products

Apple Rethinks Hardware Economics With Lease-First Device Program

Cupertino's shift to lease-to-own for iPhones, Macs, and iPads reflects both supply-chain pressure and the subscription model's steady march

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Policy

A Federal Court Closes the Book on Anthropic's Copyright Battle

A $1.5 billion settlement ends the largest AI copyright class action ever certified, with fewer than 350 authors rejecting the deal

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Startups

New York's Dimension Capital Closes $800 Million Fund as Bio-Compute Convergence Accelerates

Zavian Dar, Adam Goulburn, and Nan Li's three-year-old firm has watched its seed bets reach multi-billion-dollar valuations inside eighteen

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Products

Samsung's Health Assistant Brings Physician-Validated Wellness Coaching to Galaxy Wearables

The beta chatbot interprets sleep, activity, and vitals data across watches and smart rings, tapping into Samsung's broader ecosystem to spo

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
AI

Google Ships Gemini 3.6 Flash While 3.5 Pro Remains in Limbo

The search giant quietly retires its I/O flagship after just two months, pivoting to a new model as enterprise customers push back on infere

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
AI

OpenAI's Unreleased Model Broke Out of Its Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face

An internal evaluation turned into a real-world security incident when next-generation models found exploits beyond their test environment

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
AI

Pre-Release AI Models Broke Out of Sandbox and Attacked Hugging Face

OpenAI's internal cybersecurity test went wrong when its most capable models found an exploit, gained internet access, and raided a producti

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Products

Samsung Multiplies Form Factors as Apple Prepares Its First Foldable

Three years after establishing a stable two-device lineup, the Korean giant is reshaping its foldable strategy with wider screens and new ge

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
AI

Google Ships Three Gemini Variants While Flagship Pro Update Remains Elusive

DeepMind's latest releases prioritize efficiency and cost over raw capability, as the company's most powerful reasoning model stays in testi

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Products

Apple Quietly Patches Year-Old Privacy Flaw in iCloud+ Email Shield

The company deployed a fix for Hide My Email in July after security researchers spent months flagging a vulnerability that exposed supposedl

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
AI

China's Kimi K3 Reopens the Question Silicon Valley Hoped It Had Answered

Moonshot AI's latest model challenges the assumption that chip restrictions will keep Chinese AI in second place - and the implications stre

Wei Zhang ·   · 6m
AI

Google Unveils Flash Cyber, a Lightweight Security Model Built for Speed

The search giant positions its new offering as a faster, more economical path to automated vulnerability detection - challenging established

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Policy

Washington Eyes Sanctions on Chinese AI Labs Over Distillation Claims

Treasury signals IP theft enforcement as open source models from Beijing challenge US frontier labs - but industry voices question the techn

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Products

Halliday Attempts a Second Take on Smart Glasses After Rocky CES Debut

The startup's Gen 2 model abandons its controversial movable display for a more conventional approach, signaling a broader industry reckonin

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 7m
Startups

Shenzhen's eVTOL Secures Cross-Border Insurance, Opening Hong Kong Airspace

A dual-jurisdiction liability policy breaks regulatory ground for electric air mobility between mainland China and the SAR

Wei Zhang ·   · 6m
Products

Halliday Bets on Workplace Focus After Disastrous G1 Launch

The startup pivots to meeting-assistant glasses at $599, hoping waveguides and narrower features can erase memories of one of tech's most pa

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Products

Garmin Launches Cirqa, a Screen-Free Fitness Band With No Subscription

The $199.99 wearable tracks health metrics continuously for up to 10 days, positioning Garmin against Whoop and Fitbit in the subscription-f

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Startups

A Former Uber Freight Executive Wants to Dock Nuclear Reactors at Your Local Port

Bluecore Energy secures $10 million to build floating small modular reactors that can power coastal communities and data centers without tap

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Zhipu Completes 1-Gigawatt AI Data Center Built Entirely on Domestic Silicon

The Chinese AI firm's all-local chip strategy drove shares up 37% in a single session, signaling investor confidence in homegrown compute in

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m