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Twitch Streamers Can Opt Out of AI Training, But the Company Knows Few Will

Amazon's streaming platform admits it made the controversial feature opt-out by design, acknowledging creators' backlash while arguing other platforms offer even less control.

By Marcus Halloran·Aug 13, 2026·6 min read
Startups

Thrive Holdings Raises $2 Billion to Embed AI Into Legacy Businesses

The OpenAI-linked firm now manages over 70 companies across accounting and IT, with a new vertical targeting regulatory bottlenecks in physi

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Startups

Yulu's $93 Million Raise Signals Shift in India's Delivery Infrastructure

As quick-commerce redraws urban logistics, the Bengaluru startup moves from bike-sharing to becoming the subscription backbone for 750,000 d

Priya Nair ·   · 7m
Startups

A Boston Startup Wants to Turn Your Water Heater Into a Grid Battery

Reservoir has raised $8 million to deploy heat pump water heaters that predict household demand, slash energy bills, and stabilize electrici

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 4m
Products

Honor Bets on Motorized Camera Hardware to Stand Out in Saturated Smartphone Market

The Shenzhen vendor's Robot Phone deploys a three-axis gimbal that responds to gestures - a hardware gambit aimed at differentiation as glob

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
Products

Honor Ships a Camera Gimbal Inside a Smartphone

The company's latest device unfolds a mechanical arm from its rear panel, betting that better video stabilization is worth the added thickne

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
AI

Behind the Wheel, From Miles Away: The Remote Operators Running China's Robotaxi Fleets

As autonomous vehicles scale across Chinese cities, a new class of desk-bound workers is emerging to handle edge cases and emergencies the A

Wei Zhang ·   · 7m
Products

Insta360 Squeezes Larger Sensors Into Smaller Package With X6 Action Camera

The company's latest 360-degree camera delivers 8K at 50fps while shrinking the body and cutting lens replacement costs by 60 percent

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 4m
Products

Google Sets Stage for Pixel 11 Series and Watch 5 Reveal

The Mountain View giant will unveil its latest hardware lineup in New York tonight, backed by celebrity firepower and months of strategic le

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
AI

The Three-Platform Norm: Why Enterprise AI Teams Run Multiple Orchestration Layers

A survey of 107 large organizations reveals that most deploy three agent-control systems at once, prioritizing flexibility over any single m

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
AI

Foxconn Bets Scale Will Beat New Entrants in AI Server Race

Taiwan's manufacturing giant says integrated supply chain and production muscle position it to expand share as modular platforms reshape the

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
AI

China's Memory Champion Bets on Low-Power Chip Path

A venture arm linked to YMTC has invested in SOI Micro, a domestic player pursuing fully depleted silicon-on-insulator technology as Beijing

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Startups

The Bottleneck After the Boom: Why Code Validation Is Suddenly Worth Half a Billion

Blacksmith's valuation surge reflects a hard truth about AI-assisted development: generating code has become trivial, but proving it works h

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
Policy

The Invisible Hand: How AI Is Rewriting Democracy's Infrastructure

While the world fixates on deepfakes and disinformation, artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping the administrative machinery that dete

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
Policy

The Censorship-Industrial Complex: How a Fringe Theory Reshaped US Disinformation Policy

A narrative born on right-wing internet forums has dismantled State Department monitoring efforts and rewritten the rules of content moderat

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
Products

Insta360 X6 Brings Pro-Grade Color to the Spherical Camera Market

The $700 flagship adds 10-bit i-Log and Dolby Vision to a redesigned body, but onboard storage and AI editing still leave room for refinemen

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
AI

ByteDance Elevates Data and Security to Core AI Pillar

The Beijing tech giant has carved out a third top-tier artificial intelligence division, signaling that infrastructure and governance now si

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Startups

Tencent's Ad Revenue Climbs as Desktop AI Agent Gains Traction

The tech giant's Hy3 model and WorkBuddy agent are showing faster commercial momentum than investors anticipated, lifting second-quarter res

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
AI

Tencent's Capital Spending Surge Signals Escalating AI Arms Race in China

Shenzhen gaming and social giant nearly triples infrastructure investment in Q2, outpacing revenue growth as competition for compute intensi

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
AI

SpaceXAI Launches Persistent AI Agents That Log Into Your Apps

Grok Bot positions itself as an autonomous teammate, signing into workplace tools to execute multi-step tasks without constant supervision.

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Products

Five Years That Reshaped the iPhone

From Lightning to USB-C, static notches to Dynamic Islands, and the arrival of on-device AI, Apple's flagship has transformed in ways both v

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 8m
Products

Google's Pixel Launch Strategy Splits Between Enthusiasts and Mass Appeal

The company's celebrity-driven events pull in millions of viewers while core fans question whether product details are being sidelined for s

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Dev

Someone Turned a Las Vegas Flight Into a Security Lab

Passenger on Delta flight set up rogue Wi-Fi network mid-air, forcing crew to shut down legitimate connectivity and raising new questions ab

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Startups

Phia's Affiliate Scheme Was No Accident, Internal Messages Show

Leaked Slack exchanges reveal the shopping startup's founders discussed cookie stuffing for months before calling it a "bug" in public state

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
Startups

Flight Data Becomes Courtroom Battle as Prediction Market Faces Lawsuit

A real-time flight tracker alleges unauthorized use of its proprietary data to settle gambling contracts, raising questions about data right

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m