Pebble founder says his new company is ‘not a startup’

Pebble’s founder, Eric Migicovsky, is doing things differently with his reboot of the Pebble smartwatch brand and an AI ring. The team is small, inventory isn’t being manufactured before it’s sold, and there’s no outside funding. Most importantly, he says…

Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes

Officials from Indonesia and Malaysia have announced they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok. These are the most aggressive moves so far from government officials responding to a flood of sexualized, AI-generated imagery. The problematic content often depicts…

Developers have made $550B on Apple’s App Store since 2008

Apple services had a record-breaking year in 2025, according to senior vice president Eddy Cue. The company saw significant growth across its major platforms. The App Store averaged 850 million weekly users, an increase from 813 million the previous year.…

Amazon says 97% of its devices can support Alexa+

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, Amazon offered more insight into how it plans to compete in the AI arena. The company’s strategy centers on leveraging the massive installed base of its devices and the existing…

Trump’s EPA plans to ignore health effects of air pollution

Ever since the Reagan administration, the Environmental Protection Agency has assigned a monetary value to human life. While the concept may seem crass, its purpose was to provide a cost-benefit framework for pollution controls. If the health benefits of reducing…

Google’s Gemini to power Apple’s AI features like Siri

It is now official. Apple has chosen to partner with Google, a longtime collaborator, to power new AI features for Siri. In a joint statement, the companies said, “After careful evaluation, we determined that Google’s technology provides the most capable…