2026-07-21

Love Island stars cant accept every post-villa offer. Heres why.

Peacock’s exclusivity rules can affect Love Island USA contestants’ brand deals and outside television appearances [...]

2026-07-21

Evals are the new PRD, Expedia’s AI chief tells VB Transform 2026

“The new PRD are the evals,” Xavi Amatriain, Expedia Group’s first chief AI and data officer, told the VB Transform 2026 audience last week in Menlo Park. “So basically, you encode what you want the product to do through your evals, which might include red teaming evals and all kinds of other things, which already have a bunch of security requirements. So, you already embed that into the P [...]

2026-07-21

Threads is getting new parental control features

Parental Supervision is coming to Meta's Threads. [...]

2026-07-21

Trump’s head of AI safety agency just resigned, but he was only on the job for three months

Chris Fall was only in the job for three months before resigning, and no reason has been provided for his departure. [...]

2026-07-21

'I can assure you, Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution are not the only titles we're planning' — Xbox's chief strategy officer confirms the company wants to make more exclusives, but 'large live-service titles' will be multiplatform going forwar

Xbox has confirmed that the Microsoft-owned company is looking to expand its console-exclusive portfolio outside of Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution. [...]

2026-07-21

Bessent is threatening to sanction China for stealing U.S. AI model capabilities

The Treasury secretary said the U.S. is finding watermarks of American large language models on Chinese AI systems [...]

2026-07-21

China's Moonshot AI is seeking a $50 billion valuation in pre-IPO funding talks

The Chinese AI startup plans to open discussions in August on a final fundraising round before a Hong Kong listing as soon as this year [...]

2026-07-21

Amazon Prime members have one week left to claim up to $51 from the $2.5 billion FTC settlement

The $2.5 billion settlement resolved allegations that Amazon enrolled customers in Prime without consent and made cancellation difficult [...]

2026-07-21

15 things most cat owners don't realize their cat is communicating

The slow blink, the exposed belly, the 3am zoomies — cat communication is specific, consistent, and almost entirely misread by the humans who live with them [...]