Raycast’s new iOS keyboard app lets you dictate, swipe type and use AI commands without switching apps

Raycast’s new iPhone keyboard combines swipe typing, AI writing tools, voice dictation, GIF search, and text shortcuts. You can now access its productivity features without switching keyboards.

As search traffic dries up, Reddit announces it’s shifting to a logged-in experience

As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business.

Reddit will force everyone to log in
Reddit will force everyone to log in

Reddit is announcing a huge shift: It’s going to start requiring users to log in. Right now, you can browse Reddit without having an account, and the site is generally a great resource for crowdsourced information on a whole range of topics. I know I’m not the only person who appends “reddit” to a lot […]

Rivian expands joint venture with VW to include AI assistant

Rivian doesn’t disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result.

Sam Altman says OpenAI will point its robots at building data centres
Sam Altman says OpenAI will point its robots at building data centres

OpenAI will point its robotics programme at building data centres, chief executive Sam Altman said. Self-replicating data centres, built with AI-controlled robots, are “within grasp”, he said. He spoke to Stripe co-founder John Collison on Collison’s p…

Rivian’s electric van gets 30% more range and AWD, now delivering
Rivian’s electric van gets 30% more range and AWD, now delivering

Rivian has started delivering the first major hardware upgrade to its electric van since production began in 2021: a bigger LFP battery pack good for 30% more range, and a new dual-motor AWD version.

The company confirmed in its Q3 2026 shareholder …

Toyota’s EV sales more than doubled in a year, but gas cars are getting crushed in China
Toyota’s EV sales more than doubled in a year, but gas cars are getting crushed in China

Toyota’s EV sales have jumped 127% through September, but that isn’t telling the whole story. Slumping demand for gas and hybrid cars in China has pushed global sales lower for three months in a row.

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The R2 SUV is already Rivian’s best-selling vehicle

Rivian is seeing strong enough sales of the new EV that it improved its guidance to Wall Street for the second time this year.

Rivian’s R2 is officially its best-selling vehicle
Rivian’s R2 is officially its best-selling vehicle

Rivian reported its third quarter earnings of 2026, providing us a closer look at the company’s financial health as it ramps up production of its all-important R2 electric vehicle – which is now, for the first time, outselling all of Rivian’s other EVs. Rivian said it brought in $2.155 billion in revenue, a 38 percent […]

Rivian (RIVN) Q3 2026 earnings: revenue up 38%, R2 now its best-seller
Rivian (RIVN) Q3 2026 earnings: revenue up 38%, R2 now its best-seller

Rivian (RIVN) just released its Q3 2026 earnings, with revenue up 38% year-over-year to $2.155 billion. The R2, in its first full quarter of deliveries, is already the company’s best-selling vehicle, ahead of both the R1 and the Amazon van.

The resu…