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Agility Robotics Takes the SPAC Route, Betting on Warehouse Reality Over Home Dreams

As humanoid startups tout billion-dollar valuations, the Salem-based robotics maker is heading to public markets with paying customers, industrial certifications, and a decade of real-world data.

By Marcus Halloran·Jul 7, 2026·5 min read
Policy

Google Quietly Expands AI Training to Include User-Uploaded Search Media

The search giant now collects images, audio, and video from Lens, Voice Search, and Translate to feed its models - with users opted in by de

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
AI

American Corporations Turn to Chinese AI After Anthropic Suspension

Open-source models from GLM and DeepSeek captured significant enterprise traction in June, with costs running just 5% of restricted alternat

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Policy

Anthropic Embeds Hidden Tracker in Claude Code, Sparking User Backlash

The AI firm quietly removed steganographic code that monitored Chinese users after a researcher exposed the surveillance, contradicting its

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Policy

Sam Altman Proposes Federal Equity Stake in OpenAI

The AI giant's CEO has floated a 5 percent government ownership model, signaling a shift in how tech giants negotiate with Washington amid r

Marcus Halloran ·   · 6m
Policy

UK Regulator Kills Getty-Shutterstock Deal, Exposing Limits of US Antitrust Approval

A $3.7 billion merger designed to counter AI competition collapses after Britain's CMA demands editorial asset sales the companies won't acc

Marcus Halloran ·   · 4m
AI

Two Races Define Banking's AI Future, Says Citi Chief

Jane Fraser argues that financial institutions must compete simultaneously on internal transformation and customer-facing innovation as AI a

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Startups

The Unicorn Factory of 2026: What 90 New Billion-Dollar Startups Reveal About Capital Flow

From space-based power grids to AI hardware inference, venture capital is minting unicorns at a pace unseen since 2021 - but the composition

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 9m
Startups

Shenzhen's Even Realities Reaches Unicorn Status on Display-First Smart Glasses Bet

The three-year-old startup raised $150 million from Meituan and Tencent while deliberately skipping cameras in favor of privacy-conscious he

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Policy

A Lobbying Ban Pushed Alibaba to Court - and Won a Temporary Pause

A federal judge's order halts enforcement of new restrictions that prevented the Chinese e-commerce giant from hiring Washington representat

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Products

Apple's First Foldable iPhone Faces Production Bottleneck at Launch

Manufacturing complexity will constrain supply to under one million units in the first quarter, even as carrier data points to immediate sel

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Products

Why Your USB-C Port Might Be Slower Than You Think

The universal connector promised simplicity, but a decade of spec fragmentation has turned it into a capability lottery

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
AI

Reddit Deploys AI Spam Filters to Combat AI-Generated Spam

The platform blocks 23 million spam views daily, leaning on large language models to detect coordinated patterns that older systems missed

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Policy

Beijing Pulls the Plug on AI Personas in Chinese Chatbots

Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, and NetEase are dismantling personalized AI features as regulators tighten control over the country's generativ

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Policy

Britain's Financial Watchdog Calls for New Powers to Match AI Adoption

As millions turn to ChatGPT and Claude for money advice, the FCA warns that regulators must upgrade their own capabilities or risk falling b

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
Startups

Microsoft Cuts 4,800 Roles as AI Reshapes Sales and Gaming Operations

The Redmond giant trims 2.1 percent of its global workforce, concentrating reductions in commercial sales teams and Xbox as it realigns for

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Startups

Xbox Cuts 3,200 Jobs and Spins Out Four Studios in Gaming Reset

The division admits its business model isn't working as hardware costs rise and Game Pass growth stalls, forcing a fundamental restructuring

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
Startups

Microsoft Begins Divestiture of Four Xbox Studios Amid Gaming Division Reset

The tech giant is cutting nearly 1,600 Xbox roles in the first wave of a broader restructuring that will see 20 percent of gaming jobs elimi

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
AI

Huawei's LogicFolding Architecture Delivers 55% Density Gain Without Node Shrink

The Kirin 2026 processor demonstrates how architectural innovation can bypass lithography constraints in an era of tightening export control

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Startups

Microsoft Cuts 4,800 Jobs as Xbox Business Undergoes Historic Restructuring

The software giant eliminated 2.1% of its workforce, with gaming division facing 1,600 cuts amid margin pressure and a broader shift toward

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
AI

Reddit Claims 23 Million Daily Spam Blocks as Platform Deploys LLMs Against Bot Networks

The social platform is using language models to detect coordinated fake behavior at account creation, part of a broader enforcement overhaul

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Startups

China's Manufacturing Edge Could Reshape the Trillion-Dollar Robotaxi Race

As production costs for autonomous ride-hailing hardware fall sharply in China, the economics of driverless fleets are shifting faster than

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
Products

Why Your Next Cable Should Be USB4 (and When It Shouldn't)

The premium price of USB4 cables makes sense for power users running multi-device setups, but most smartphone owners are better off saving t

Marcus Halloran ·   · 8m
AI

Amazon Closes the Door on Mechanical Turk as Human Labor Falls to AI

After two decades, AWS will stop onboarding new customers to the crowdsourcing platform that once powered the hidden human layer behind mach

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
Startups

Uber Freezes Five European Market Launches Amid Delivery Hero Acquisition Push

The ride-hailing giant has paused expansion into Austria, Norway, and Greece as it pursues a multibillion-euro takeover deal.

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m