Technology

Apple's Standalone Siri App Will Reportedly Offer Auto-Deleting Chats

Apple's revamped Siri will reportedly let users auto-delete conversations after 30 days or a year — a privacy-first pitch for an assistant that is, underneath, powered by Google Gemini.

Technology

Kin Health Raises $9M to Build an AI Notetaker for Patients

The AI-scribe boom built documentation tools for doctors. Kin Health, with $9M led by Maveron, flips the customer — a notetaker the patient owns. The free-but-referral-funded model is the part to watch.

Technology

Judge Dismisses Elon Musk's Lawsuit Against OpenAI as Filed Too Late

A California jury took under two hours to find that Musk knew about OpenAI's for-profit shift by 2021 and sued too late in 2024 — ending a marquee tech grudge match on procedure, not merits.

Culture

Academy Rules AI-Generated Performances and Screenplays Ineligible for Oscars

The Academy will not nominate AI-generated performances or AI-written screenplays — a rule that turns two years of abstract argument about AI in Hollywood into enforceable procedure.

Technology

Coinbase Lays Off 14% of Staff and Restructures Around AI 'Player-Coaches'

Coinbase cut 14% of its staff — but the real story is Brian Armstrong replacing managers with "player-coaches" and betting the company on one-person "AI-native pods."

Technology

EU Delays High-Risk AI Act Rules to December 2027 in Omnibus Agreement

On May 7, EU lawmakers agreed to delay the AI Act's high-risk provisions to December 2027 — a win for industry lobbying and a marker of how the regulatory mood has shifted.

Technology

Google's Screenless Fitbit Air Arrives May 26 at $99

The Fitbit Air has no screen, no notifications, and a $99 price. In a year of AI-everything wearables, Google's most interesting move is a device that asks for almost none of your attention.

Technology

Snap and Perplexity End $400 Million AI Search Partnership

Snap's $400M deal to put Perplexity inside Snapchat is dead. The collapse is a useful signal about how hard AI distribution partnerships actually are — and why Snap is betting on hardware instead.

Technology

Apple Backs Google in Opposing EU Proposal to Open Android to AI Rivals

Apple's May 13 filing with the European Commission opposes EU measures that would force Google to give rival AI services system-level access to Android — a precedent Apple sees as a stress test for what regulators may demand of iOS next.

Technology

Google Previews Android 17 'Gemini Intelligence' Ahead of Apple's WWDC

Google previewed Android 17 with a "Gemini Intelligence" branding on May 12, four weeks before Apple's WWDC keynote. The agentic features Google demoed are the gap Apple has to close on June 8.

Technology

Anthropic Nears $300M+ Acquisition of Developer Tools Startup Stainless

Anthropic is in advanced talks to buy SDK-generation startup Stainless for at least $300 million — a deal that would take out a key developer-tools supplier to OpenAI and Google in the same stroke.

Technology

Google Disrupts Hacker Group Using AI to Develop Zero-Day Exploit and Bypass 2FA

Google Threat Intelligence Group says it has "high confidence" a criminal actor used an AI model to find and weaponize a zero-day in a popular open-source admin tool — and was prepared to launch a mass exploitation event before Google intervened.