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Shopify says AI isnt cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.

Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.

This marks the official launch of Zoox's commercial operations.

On our new Real World AI stage, well be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways well continue to see a blending of the two.

Tinder is expanding its in-person events feature from an initial Los Angeles test to 26 cities worldwide by the end of September.

Climate nonprofits can again access their federal funding more than a year after the Trump EPA ordered Citibank to freeze their accounts.

Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude-maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.

As streamers compete with social media giants for viewer attention, Disney+ is partnering with TikTok to bring creator content to its app.

MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.

Robinhood's latest financial instrument intends to let any retail investor feel like they, too, can make money by backing Y Combinator startups.

River plans to build a new factory, launch additional models from 2027, and target profitability as it scales production.

Mitti Labs plans to expand beyond India and enter the Philippines and Indonesia while growing its carbon credits and agricultural data business.

WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action items.

Musk kept inflating the already-big promises being made by SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen and Gwynne Shotwell on the company's first call.

Developers may not realize they are sharing their users' location data with advertisers, per new research.

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.

Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.

A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain monitoring firms.

Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists music while ensuring artists opt in, receive credit, and are compensated.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has paused new data center development until an audit has been completed.

The acquisition, which was first announced in June, brings Vibe.co into Walmart Connect, Walmart's connected TV advertising platform.

An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car business.

Want to tap into the energy of 1,100+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders descending on Boston for the Founder Summit 2026 on June 9? Host your own Side Event during Founder Summit Week, happening June 4-10!

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.

Notably, the company saw its subscriber base swell by 9% in the second quarter despite raising prices in several regions this year.

The legislation lays the groundwork for a potential overhaul of India's zero-merchant-discount-rate regime, under which businesses have not paid fees to accept UPI payments since 2020.

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.

When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of the decade.

AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step towards decoupling apps from models.

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spoke to lawyers who specialize in computer hacking laws to find out.

DesignArena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.

OpenAIs first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all over the world.

Apples long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. But after years of delays, the launch lands in an AI landscape where chatbots have evolved into agents that can code, reason, create media, and complete complex tasks. Siri AI is genuinely useful, yet it arrives at a moment when simply being a capable AI assistant no longer feels revolutionary.

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action items.

Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation as companies want continuous, AI-powered security validation instead of annual pentesting.

New security research offers a rare view inside residential proxy networks, which rely on apps that share a person's internet connection with someone else.

June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.

The global memory chip shortage appears to be affecting the availability of Apples most popular Mac.

Let's see how this frontier community for techno-optimists is doing ...

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Despite predictions that AI agents could make traditional apps obsolete, developers are shipping new software faster than ever. From smarter bookmarking tools and neighborhood marketplaces to digital pen pals and nature journals, here are the latest App Store finds worth adding to your Home Screen.