Google built a 99 dollar AI health coach. Whoop responded with real doctors.
Google built a 99 dollar AI health coach. Whoop responded with real doctors.

  Google launched a 99 dollar screenless fitness tracker and a 9.99 dollar per month AI health coach powered by Gemini. One day later, Whoop announced that it would add on-demand video consultations with licensed clinicians to its app. Google is bettin…

The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed. Court documents show the stake is now worth two billion.
The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed. Court documents show the stake is now worth two billion.

  The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed, before Microsoft committed billions, and before the company was worth more than some countries. Court documents from the Musk v. Altman trial revealed this week …

Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day
Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day

  Cloudflare beat Wall Street’s revenue and earnings estimates on Wednesday, announced it would cut 1,100 employees because artificial intelligence agents now do their work, and watched its stock fall 24 per cent on Thursday. The sequence is becoming t…

Uber’s robotaxi partner crashed 16 times in four months. The regulator called it “excessively assertive and insufficiently capable.”
Uber’s robotaxi partner crashed 16 times in four months. The regulator called it “excessively assertive and insufficiently capable.”

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Avride, Uber’s autonomous vehicle partner, after identifying 16 crashes and one minor injury in the four months since the company launched its robotaxi service in Dalla…

will.i.am taught 75 college students to build AI agents. The tech industry spent the same semester firing 73,000 people.
will.i.am taught 75 college students to build AI agents. The tech industry spent the same semester firing 73,000 people.

The tech industry laid off more than 73,000 workers in the first four months of 2026. In a classroom inside a Hollywood recording studio, a 51-year-old hip-hop artist was teaching 75 college students how to build the AI agents that are replacing them. …

PR & Media lessons from EU-Startups Summit 2026: what works, what does not
PR & Media lessons from EU-Startups Summit 2026: what works, what does not

A panel in Valletta laid out a working playbook for startup PR, from the friends-and-family headline test to the case for hiring an agency. Founders looking for media coverage at this year’s EU-Startups Summit in Valletta got a fairly direct briefing f…

G2A names CVC veteran Krzysztof Krawczyk as advisory board chair after taking minority stake
G2A names CVC veteran Krzysztof Krawczyk as advisory board chair after taking minority stake

The digital marketplace with Polish origins, which has scaled to nearly $400m in annual GMV without external funding, brings in one of Central Europe’s most experienced private-equity operators to guide its next phase of M&A and global expansion. A…

Jeff Bezos’s representative just left the board of a startup that raised $1.4 billion on his name. The first truck has not been built.
Jeff Bezos’s representative just left the board of a startup that raised $1.4 billion on his name. The first truck has not been built.

  The person who connected Jeff Bezos to one of the most ambitious electric vehicle startups in America has left its board. Melinda Lewison, who manages the Bezos family office and was listed as a director on Slate Auto’s corporate filings, has departe…

Tesla trademarked a supercar badge for a car it promised nine years ago. The logo is the most tangible thing about the Roadster.
Tesla trademarked a supercar badge for a car it promised nine years ago. The logo is the most tangible thing about the Roadster.

  Tesla has filed a trademark for a bespoke Roadster badge that looks like it belongs on a Lamborghini. The car it will adorn was first promised nine years ago. A prototype debuted in November 2017 with a 200 kilowatt-hour battery, a claimed 620-mile r…

Meta takes Ofcom to the High Court over how the UK calculates Online Safety Act bills
Meta takes Ofcom to the High Court over how the UK calculates Online Safety Act bills

The first invoices arrive in September. Meta wants the basis changed before they do. Meta has filed a judicial review against Ofcom over the way the regulator calculates fees and penalties under the UK’s Online Safety Act, the High Court was told on Th…