Discover apps that spark curiosity, boost skills, and help you reclaim time from mindless scrolling—without missing fun or connection. Engaging Apps to Break Free from Endless Scrolling TechCrunch: Do you want to spend more time learning than scrolling? Doomscrolling means looking at social media for hours without meaning to. Many people do it every day, … Read more
Arena has become the go-to AI model ranking platform, evolving from a research project to a $1.7 billion startup in seven months Leaderboard You Can’t Game, Backed by Companies It Ranks San Francisco: Arena is a special website that ranks the best artificial intelligence models people can use today. It started as a research project … Read more
A new AI startup wants to replace traditional software menus with conversational prompts for business operations. This Startup Makes Enterprise Software Work Like a Prompt San Francisco: Josh Sirota founded a startup called Eragon that wants to make software work differently for companies. Instead of clicking buttons and using menus, people can just type what … Read more
Startup Sequen secures $16M to democratize TikTok-style personalization tech for major consumer brands, replacing cookies without compromising privacy. Sequen lands $16M to deliver TikTok-style personalization tech to any consumer company New York: Zoë Weil helped Etsy make one billion dollars more by making their AI better. Now she has a new company called Sequen that … Read more
Microsoft acquires Cove’s AI collaboration team, planning to integrate their technology into existing products. Microsoft Hires Sequoia-Backed Cove AI Team San Francisco: Microsoft has hired the team behind Cove, an AI startup that made a digital collaboration board. Cove was working on a tool that let people use AI to plan projects and create different … Read more
We compared two all-steel gravity-fed water filters that promise no plastic contact and year-long filter life. Boroux Versus Rorra Countertop Water Filters Tested Head to Head Portland: I had never understood why people liked those big metal gravity water filters. Brands like British Berkefeld and Berkey had become popular. They seemed to show up at … Read more
The new BMW i3 offers 560 miles of range with advanced EV tech on the Neue Klasse platform. BMW i3 2026 All Electric A Complete Overview BMW i3 2026: This is the new electric 3 Series sedan from BMW. It’s not the old i3 that stopped being made in 2022. Instead, this is an all-new … Read more
Mistral launches Forge, letting companies train custom AI models on their own data to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic Mistral bets on ‘build-your-own AI’ in enterprise race San Francisco: Most enterprise AI projects fail because companies use models trained on the internet rather than their own business data. Models don’t understand decades of internal documents, … Read more
VC Garry Tan shares his AI-powered coding setup gstack, sparking excitement and controversy in the tech community. Why Garry Tan Loves and Debates His Claude Code Setup San Francisco: Venture capitalist Garry Tan has created a big buzz with his AI coding tools called gstack. Tan told people at a tech event that he barely … Read more
Apple has released a new lightweight update to fix a Safari security bug on iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Apple Rolls Out First Background Security Update for iOS macOS Devices San Francisco: Apple has published its first background security improvement update to fix a bug in Safari’s browser engine. The update patches a flaw in WebKit, … Read more
DoorDash is revolutionizing restaurant access through exclusive reservation deals, outpacing rivals in the high-stakes battle for coveted dining spots. DoorDash Reservations Become Key to America’s Most Exclusive Restaurants Manhattan, New York: The Eighty-Six is one of Manhattan’s most exclusive restaurants. The steakhouse has only 11 tables, serves expensive foods like caviar and aged cheese, and … Read more
Kagi launches mobile apps and browser extensions for its human-curated “Small Web,” bringing indie content to iOS and Android devices. Kagi brings its human-only Small Web to mobile with iOS and Android apps Palo Alto: Kagi is making its “Small Web” available on mobile devices. This is a collection of websites written by real people, … Read more