Notion is shutting down its email client because AI agents already do the job
Notion is shutting down its email client because AI agents already do the job

Notion is shutting down Notion Mail on September 22, less than 18 months after making the email product available to users. The company said the decision reflects a broader shift in how people interact with email, with AI agents increasingly handling t…

Trump DOT proposes dropping the brake pedal requirement for fully autonomous vehicles
Trump DOT proposes dropping the brake pedal requirement for fully autonomous vehicles

The Trump administration’s Department of Transportation proposed on Wednesday removing the federal requirement for brake pedals in vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems. The rule change, if adopted, would eliminate one…

Claude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows
Claude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows

Consumers who pay for AI chatbots are increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude over competitors, according to new data from credit card transaction analysis firm Indagari. Claude’s paying consumer base and revenue have grown roughly 75 percent since Ja…

Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over efforts to keep her quiet
Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over efforts to keep her quiet

For more than a year, the legal action in the Sarah Wynn-Williams affair ran one way: Meta against its former executive. That has now reversed. Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of the Meta memoir Careless People, is suing the company over its efforts to…

Unconventional AI releases its first model, built on an oscillator architecture its founder says could cut power use by a factor of a thousand
Unconventional AI releases its first model, built on an oscillator architecture its founder says could cut power use by a factor of a thousand

Unconventional AI, the startup founded by former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao, has released its first AI model, an image generation system called Un-0 that runs on a completely new kind of computing architecture. The model produces results comparable…

Google Finance exits beta with a dedicated Android app, portfolio tracking, and AI-powered scheduled briefings
Google Finance exits beta with a dedicated Android app, portfolio tracking, and AI-powered scheduled briefings

Google Finance is exiting beta with a wave of new features, including a dedicated Android app, portfolio tracking, an AI-powered research tool, and scheduled market briefings. The updates mark the broadest expansion of the platform since Google began r…

Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to automate the networking that slows down GPU clouds
Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to automate the networking that slows down GPU clouds

Netris, a Santa Clara startup that automates the networking layer inside GPU data centres, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round follows what the company says is 800 percent annual recurring revenue growth and…

Trump administration bars Polestar from selling new EVs in the US under Connected Vehicle Rule
Trump administration bars Polestar from selling new EVs in the US under Connected Vehicle Rule

The Trump administration has barred Polestar from selling new electric vehicles in the United States, denying the Geely-owned automaker authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. The decision, first reported by TechCrunch, means Polestar will not …

Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the AI video enhancer
Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the AI video enhancer

Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the Emmy-winning maker of AI image and video enhancement tools. The deal hands Adobe upscaling, restoration and on-device AI as creators blend captured and generated footage. Adobe has agreed to buy Topaz Labs, an AI company…

Toyota is closing in on GM as America’s top-selling automaker as hybrids surge and EVs falter
Toyota is closing in on GM as America’s top-selling automaker as hybrids surge and EVs falter

Toyota is gaining on General Motors in the race for America’s sales crown, and the gap is now the narrowest it has been in half a decade. A new forecast from Cox Automotive, released on Wednesday, projects Toyota will sell approximately 1,250,000 vehic…