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Google ships Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel 11 Pro FoldGoogle's latest hardware push lands the Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel 11 Pro Fold into a market where foldables and wearables remain a rounding error next to Apple's iPhone volumes. The bigger point is s…GoTo dropped from MSCI after three months stuck at 50 rupiahMSCI is removing GoTo Group from its Global Standard indexes effective after the close on 31 August, ending a freeze that began in May when the Indonesian ride-hailing and e-commerce group's shares…Uber quietly sold out of Serve Robotics entirelyA regulatory filing shows Uber held zero Serve Robotics shares last quarter, down from more than 2 million shares worth $17.5 million the quarter before, and Serve says it only found out when the d…A flight tracker is suing Kalshi over cancellation bettingFlightAware filed suit in the Southern District of New York on August 10, alleging Kalshi used its data and trademark without permission to settle prediction-market contracts on flight cancellation…StubHub's refund fight follows fans from the stands to the courtsA California federal lawsuit filed by Julia Reeker Moghal and Reuben Renteria alleges StubHub sold World Cup tickets it never had and then leaned on refunds instead of replacements, even after buye…ChatGPT and Gemini both cross 1 billion usersTwo chatbots hitting a billion users each turns AI assistants from a novelty into infrastructure most of the connected world now touches weekly.Firms pay up to $100k a month for fast Truth Social accessMore than ten trading and research outfits are paying premium fees for early access to presidential posts, treating social media as market-moving data infrastructure.Zuckerberg's 6,500-word case for AI nobody controlsMeta's founder published a manifesto arguing the real danger in AI is a handful of companies or governments controlling it, and released an open-weight model called Glimmer the same day to prove he…A rival app store just walked back into Google Play after 12 yearsAptoide Games is now installable directly through Google Play in the US, the first competing Android marketplace to get that access since Google removed the company from Play in 2014, as TechCrunch…Trump Media's crypto pile just cost it $190m in one quarterTrump Media posted a Q2 net loss of $238.1 million, more than ten times last year's $19.2 million shortfall, driven almost entirely by non-cash markdowns on digital assets that totalled $190.4 mill…California moves to ban AI from playing therapistSB 903 would bar companies from advertising chatbots as therapy, stop AI making independent therapeutic decisions or diagnoses, and require written consent before any AI records or transcribes a se…UK regulator clears Warner Bros Paramount deal after concessionsBritain's competition watchdog has approved Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros after Paramount agreed to concessions, clearing one of the last major regulatory hurdles for a deal that reshapes …OpenAI removes the message cap for free ChatGPT usersFree ChatGPT users can now send unlimited text messages, dropping the usage limits that previously pushed heavy users toward a paid subscription. OpenAI is betting that scale and habit formation ma…X's product chief lasted one year. That's the actual newsNikita Bier joining X's product team in 2025 was framed as a coup, the app-building wunderkind behind Gas and tbh finally getting a platform with real scale. His exit after twelve months fits a pat…eBay raises outlook as Depop deal closesRevenue rose and eBay now folds Depop's Gen Z resale audience into a marketplace that has spent years fighting an image as somewhere only your parents sell things. The upgrade suggests the acquisit…Telegram says an extortionist planted CSAM to force an App Store banTelegram's CEO claims someone deliberately seeded child abuse material into a chat specifically to trigger Apple's removal policies, turning content moderation into a weapon against a rival platfor…Pinterest's Gen Z traction turns into real revenue growthPinterest converting Gen Z engagement into sales growth matters because the platform spent years being written off as a millennial mood board with no path to ad dollars from younger users. Sales cl…Spotify crosses 300 million paying subscribersSpotify hitting 300 million premium subscribers confirms the subscription music model has largely finished its growth phase in developed markets and is now a scale-and-margin story rather than a la…TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 passes get a $100 discount this weekA time-limited price cut on conference passes, useful if you were already planning to attend.Union drives are coming for gig platforms nextOrganised labour's next target after grocery and warehouse workers is the gig economy, and Uber's driver base is the biggest single pool to organise given the scale of its US and UK operations. Ube…Aston Martin creditors threaten legal action over branding rights saleCreditors are pushing back on a plan to sell off Aston Martin branding rights, a sign the carmaker's balance sheet repair is running into resistance from the people it owes money to, not just the m…AWS growth reaccelerating is the number that moved Amazon's stockCloud revenue growth ticking back up after several quarters of deceleration is what actually justifies the $220bn capex figure sitting alongside it in the same earnings release. Wall Street had bee…LinkedIn just admitted its feed has an AI slop problemAdding a button to flag AI-generated content is LinkedIn quietly conceding that its own algorithm has been rewarding low-effort, machine-written posts because they perform well on engagement metric…Amazon and Walmart's AI shopping bots are quietly burying 'Made in USA'If AI shopping assistants are systematically deprioritising domestic manufacturing labels in product recommendations, that's a policy problem hiding inside a UX decision, not a technical glitch. Th…Reddit's profit rose on advertising growthAd revenue strength gives Reddit more room to defend its data-licensing deals with AI labs as a secondary revenue stream rather than a lifeline, changing its negotiating position with Google and Op…Zuckerberg wants an AI agent in every pocket by 2031Meta's founder is now predicting billions of people will run personal AI agents within five years, and he's backing the claim with the biggest capex build in Meta's history. The bet is that whoever…Musk just paid to make the advertiser boycott lawsuit disappearElon Musk settling with the advertising industry group he sued for orchestrating an X boycott closes one of the messier legal threads from Twitter's collapse in ad revenue after the 2022 takeover. …eBay pays $55.7m for sending cockroaches to its criticsThis is the final bill for one of the strangest corporate scandals of the last decade. EBay and several former executives will pay $55.7 million to settle claims they orchestrated a harassment camp…Claude's shared chats leaked into Google search resultsAnthropic's shareable Claude links and Artifacts pages, meant for sending a chat or a piece of generated code to a colleague, have been getting indexed by Google and turning up in public search res…BuzzFeed cuts a third of its staffThe layoffs land as digital media's ad-revenue model keeps losing ground to AI-generated search summaries that answer queries without a click-through. BuzzFeed has already sold HuffPost and shut Co…Meta dodges the next social media addiction trialThe lawsuit's withdrawal doesn't clear Meta of the broader litigation wave, dozens of similar cases are still queued up against the company.Kalshi wants to let traders bet on gold and silver foreverKalshi is seeking regulatory approval for perpetual contracts on precious metals, a structure that never expires and would let retail traders take leveraged directional bets on gold and silver with…Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to take on SlackBuzz is built around teams working alongside AI agents rather than just humans messaging each other, betting that the next generation of workplace chat needs to treat bots as first-class participan…Brussels' €550m AliExpress fine is a warning shot at every marketplace, not just oneA record fine under the Digital Services Act only works as deterrence if the next platform believes it could be them, and €550m makes that believable for Temu, Shein and even Amazon's third-party m…Live shopping's £100k-a-day claims are the exception TikTok wants you to seeOne creator's £100,000 sales day is the headline TikTok Shop's PR team is happy to amplify, because it obscures how few sellers actually clear five figures in a single stream. Live commerce works i…Google folds NotebookLM into the Gemini brandKilling a well-loved standalone name to fold it into Gemini is a bet that brand consolidation matters more than the loyalty NotebookLM built as a scrappy research tool. The rename to Gemini Noteboo…Ofcom opens formal probe into TikTok's age checksThis is Ofcom's first major test of the Online Safety Act's child protection powers against a platform TikTok's size, and the outcome sets the template for every enforcement action that follows. Th…Netflix shares slide on weak growth forecastSubscriber growth guidance came in soft enough to spook a stock that's been priced for perfection all year. With ad-tier momentum slowing and password-sharing crackdown gains largely banked already…Uber's €12.5bn Delivery Hero deal is a bet that food delivery consolidation still has room to runUber closing in on Delivery Hero would hand it dominant positions across Europe, Asia and Latin America in one move, markets where Uber Eats has struggled to build density on its own. Delivery Hero…A midnight curfew for teen social media is a compliance headache waiting to happenForcing platforms to cut access for older teens at midnight sounds simple in a press release and is a nightmare in engineering terms: age verification at scale, time-zone handling, and enforcement …