- July 17, 2026
San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the Waymo traffic fiasco
It turns out that even San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie, who once declared that the city should be a testbed for emerging tech, has his
Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone”
Uber has spent the last year quietly pushing beyond the two businesses most people associate it with. There’s ride-hailing, of course, and delivery, but spend
US cyber agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals
U.S. federal cybersecurity agency CISA said it did not have a prepared response plan for how it should handle a cybersecurity incident in May, after
Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20
One last chance to apply Due to overwhelming interest, we’ve extended applications for Startup Battlefield Australia to July 20. If you’ve been thinking about applying,
New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial from Google asks: What if the Founding Fathers had
Apple is reportedly planning new iPad Pro and MacBook Pro releases early next year
Apple reportedly has plans to release several new iPad Pros and a new MacBook Pro in the first half of next year. The company is
California law targeting loud streaming ads takes effect on July 1
Streaming ads might be getting a lot quieter this week. A California law banning streaming services from showing ads “louder than the video content” that
The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns
OpenAI’s release of its newest model, GPT 5.6, reportedly won’t be like its previous releases. Instead of distributing it to the public, the company plans
OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open-source bugs
OpenAI announced a new initiative on Monday designed to help the open source community improve its cybersecurity game and ward off bugs. “Patch the Planet,”
He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.
You’ve probably used VLC Media Player, the free video player with the orange traffic-cone icon — it’s been downloaded more than 6 billion times. But