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Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behalf. On Wednesday's Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed a high-level vision of how the company is thinking about personal agents and what it will do […]
RAMageddon won't be the only reason your next phone costs more - Qualcomm is about to raise prices on all its processors, as well. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said on Wednesday that "prices are going to go up" on the company's products starting on September 1st, CNBC reports. The price hikes were rumored last week […]
I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by how they performed.
Elon Musk’s platform attacked the country’s “invasive” information-gathering powers as it demands the government drop efforts to strengthen its no-children policy.
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
For months on end, eBay employees and contractors made life hell for a couple that had criticized the company. Six years later, the company is finally paying up.
It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion - from the last quarter's projection of up to $190 billion. Even the lower end of Google's new projected range - $195 billion - is much more than the company had previously […]
In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.
Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild ride,” says one nonprofit leader.
X Money, a core part of Elon Musk's mission to turn X into an "everything app," is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac reports. The payment platform offers a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments similar to Venmo, along with a metal Visa card users can emblazon with their X username. Other perks include Apple Wallet support […]
The China-based memory firm ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) had a massive first day on the Shanghai stock exchange after its shares surged 466 percent, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal and CNBC. The stock market frenzy boosted CXMT's valuation to $484 billion, making it the most valuable Chinese company listed on the exchange. […]
Google's Vice President of Devices and Services, Shakil Barkat, all but confirmed in an interview with 9to5 Google that its next Pixel phone would cost more than the Pixel 10. Considering the ongoing RAM supply issues due to the explosion of AI data centers, the rumored price hike is not a complete surprise. Companies from […]
Warner Bros. Discovery has filed suit against Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching employees, including Pia Barlow, former senior VP for originals marketing. In the complaint, Warner says that "Amazon has chosen to ride on the coattails of other well-established Hollywood mainstays," and that it engaged in a "lawless employee shopping spree." Deadline reports that […]
In 2024, everyone and their manager launched an AI wrapper. A thin layer over GPT-4, a nice UI, a subscription fee, and boom: you were an AI company. Product Hunt had hundreds of these launches. Investors poured money into them. And by 2026, most of them are dead. Not all of them though. A handful survived and crossed real revenue milestones. Their stories reveal something important about where the AI market is actually going. The wrappers died but the value moved somewhere real. What Actually Killed the Wrappers The math never worked. An AI wrapper is a startup whose core product is a prompt sent to someone else's model. You pay OpenAI (or Anthropic or Google) for tokens. You charge your users a markup. And you hope the difference covers your hosting, your team, and your coffee. Three things broke that math. First, the model providers kept getting cheaper. OpenAI cut prices multiple times through 2024 and 2025. As TechCrunch reported , each price drop squeezed the wrapper margin another notch. If you were marking up tokens 3x and the base price dropped 50%, your margin went from 200% to 50% overnight. Second, the big models got good enough at general tasks that users stopped needing the specialized UI. Why pay $20/month for a writing assistant that wraps ChatGPT when you can just use ChatGPT directly? The OpenAI GPT Store made this worse: custom GPTs replaced a huge chunk of wrapper functionality for free. Third, users wised up. The initial AI hype in 2023 convinced people to pay for anything with "AI" in the name. By 2025, that was over. G2's research showed that enterprises stopped buying standalone AI tools and started demanding AI features built into their existing software stacks. The result was predictable. Hundreds of wrapper startups shut down, got acquired for pennies, or pivoted to something completely different. What Actually Works Now The survivors fall into three categories. Each one solves the problem the wrappers ignored: building defensible value on
Big Tobacco studied nicotine analogs like 6-methyl-nicotine for decades but never marketed them. Now, Chinese vape makers are using them to sidestep US regulations.
Qualcomm sent a letter to customers on Friday warning of plans to increase its prices by "a percentage in the double digits," Bloomberg reports. The price hikes will go into effect starting with products shipped after September 1st. Qualcomm claims it has "exhausted its ability to absorb higher costs from suppliers," as ongoing component shortages […]
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into accusations that China’s Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, and how the US Army needs to cut back on AI use.
The AI “startups” worth billions of dollars are raising alarm bells about Chinese AI. The smaller players have a totally different take.
“I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.”
The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”