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SpaceX’s upgraded Starship suffers explosion during testing

SpaceX’s upgraded Starship suffers explosion during testing

Google releases Nano Banana Pro

Spotify’s new features let listeners explore the people and stories behind their favorite music

Meta wins antitrust trial

Meta releases a new tool to protect reels creators

OpenAI says it’s fixed ChatGPT’s em dash problem

Firefighters received chemical burns at Elon Musk’s Boring Company site

Airbnb’s testing a ‘kitchen stocking’ service

Threads is targeting podcasters

Google Maps gets new AI tools

Amazon launches a low-price standalone shopping app

Sam Altman says he doesn’t want the government to bail out OpenAI if it fails

Apple nears deal to pay Google $1B annually to power new Siri

Spotify now has half a million video podcasts

TikTok announces its first awards show in the US

Perplexity strikes multi-year licensing deal with Getty Images

Nvidia is reportedly investing up to $1 billion in Poolside

Nvidia becomes first public company worth $5 trillion

OpenAI completes its for-profit recapitalization

OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

Rivian will pay $250M to settle lawsuit over R1 price hike

YouTube paid out $8B to the music industry in 12 months

Amazon unveils AI smart glasses for its delivery drivers

YouTube’s likeness-detection technology has officially launched

Meta AI’s app downloads and daily users spiked after launch of ‘Vibes’ AI video feed

Meta previews new parental controls for its AI experiences

Spotify partners with record labels to create ‘artist-first’ AI music products

Meta partners up with Arm to scale AI efforts

Spotify partners with Netflix for video podcast distribution deal

Salesforce announces Agentforce 360

Instagram head Adam Mosseri pushes back on MrBeast’s AI fears but admits society will have to adjust

Sora hit 1M downloads faster than ChatGPT

Amazon Pharmacy is launching vending machines for prescription drugs

X splits Verified Organizations into ‘Premium Business’ and ‘Premium Organizations

OpenAI launches apps inside of ChatGPT

Apple removes ICEBlock and similar tracking apps from the App Store

Threads takes on X with new communities feature

Amazon launches a grocery brand

OpenAI is launching its own TikTok competitor

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5

The Trump administration is going after semiconductor imports

Spotify denies recent accusation that it changed its terms for artists

Meta launches super PAC to fight AI regulation

Nvidia plans to invest up to $100B in OpenAI

OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild

Mark Zuckerberg has begun his quest to kill the smartphone

Why the iPhone Air’s real breakthrough is its battery

YouTube rolls out Studio updates

Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks

A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law