Roblox announced Thursday a new feature called “Build,” allowing users to design games from their mobile devices using AI. The Build feature lets anyone turn simple text prompts into a basic game without any programming ...

In Brief Posted: 10:37 AM PDT · July 16, 2026 Image Credits:whitemay / Getty Images BP has had an on-again, off-again relationship with climate tech. Now it’s definitely “off.” On top of pivoting away from ...

In Brief Posted: 10:12 AM PDT · July 16, 2026 Image Credits:Budrul Chukrut / SOPA Images / LightRocket / Getty Images After weeks of speculation, Uber officially agreed to acquire Delivery Hero, a purchase that ...

Newsletter platform Beehiiv is expanding into new avenues of engagement by launching a feature called Community, which lets subscribers of a creator chat with each other. The company also launched a new AI Copilot that ...

X is taking a tougher stance against people who try to abuse its creator revenue-sharing program by soliciting engagement and stealing content from others. It’s common for viral content to be recirculated, especially on platforms ...

In Brief Posted: 9:08 AM PDT · July 16, 2026 Image Credits:RLT_Images / Getty Images Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at ...

Image Credits:Google 9:00 AM PDT · July 16, 2026 Google might launch an AI product with one name during its experimental phase, but it will eventually tie it all to Gemini. In the latest example ...

Google announced on Thursday that it now allows users to link and interact with some of their go-to apps right in AI Mode, the tech giant’s conversational search experience. At launch, supported apps include Instacart, ...

Sudo make me a sandwich. The future has arrived! DoorDash just introduced a limited beta of DoorDash CLI, a command-line tool for developers that lets you order DoorDash directly from your AI agent. The tool ...

U.K. police said on Thursday that the jailing of two hackers has “severely” hampered the activities of the infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, pleaded guilty earlier ...

“Your data is private. Period,” says period tracker Stardust on its website. As new research by Mozilla discovered, some users might find that claim to be a stretch. According to Mozilla’s latest findings examining the ...

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week: a $230 mini keyboard. You may not have heard that alongside this “command center for agentic work,” OpenAI also released a ...

Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind knowing visual AI was the frontier he wanted to stake his claim in. He pulled off a whirlwind fundraise that resulted in a more aggressive valuation-to-capital ratio than Thinking Machines, ...

Sheryl Sandberg has led a $10 million investment into Self Inspection, a San Diego-based startup that is also backed by former Tesla president Jon McNeill’s DVx Ventures. The startup, founded in 2021, has spent the ...

While the rest of the AI industry races to label its work as “AGI” or “superintelligence,” Alexandre LeBrun, the CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, avoids the terms altogether. Lebrun said in ...