Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe

The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

I replaced my space heater and ceiling fan with one Dyson appliance

Designed for year-round comfort, the Dyson Hot+Cool HF1 combines quiet operation and simple controls with Dyson’s signature bladeless design.

Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal

A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.

Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.

Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms

The safety board confirmed Tesla’s account of the crash, which the company shared days after it happened last month.

Apple quietly reveals how its Maps ads will differ from Google’s

Apple has published the policies governing its upcoming Maps advertising business, revealing a strategy that differs from Google’s. The new rules prohibit home services businesses like plumbers, electricians, locksmiths, and roofers from advertising on…

Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations

Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and discovery features as it expands into new product categ…

Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models

Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.

Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet

The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.