2026-06-16

McDonald's is bringing back its fried apple pie for the first time in over 30 years

The chain is reviving the menu item it replaced with a baked version in 1992, in honor of the U.S. semiquincentennial [...]

2026-06-16

Trump's DOJ cleared the Paramount-Warner Bros. deal before its own staff could weigh in

Career antitrust lawyers were leaning toward recommending a lawsuit when senior DOJ officials closed the investigation and cleared the $110 billion deal [...]

2026-06-16

20 principles of good management that most managers don't practice

The gap between knowing good management and actually practicing it is wider than most managers admit — here's what separates the ones who close it [...]

2026-06-16

Genesis AI thinks the humanoid hype is wrong. Its wheeled robot is the counterargument.

On Tuesday, while the robotics industry continued pouring billions into machines that walk like humans, a startup called Genesis AI unveiled one that deliberately does not. Eno is a wheeled robot with a foldable tower, dexterous hands, and a foundation model its creators say gives it human-level manipulation. It is a pointed rejection of the industry’s […]<br /> This story continues at [...]

2026-06-16

The team that built Microsoft’s Security Copilot just raised $100M to stop attacks before they happen

For most of the past decade, the security industry quietly gave up on prevention. Breaches were treated as inevitable, and the money went into detecting and cleaning up the mess afterwards. A new startup from two veterans of that industry says AI has made stopping the attack in the first place possible again, and investors […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-06-16

This two-year-old startup already programs Blue Origin’s rockets. It just raised $20M.

The hottest pitch in AI right now is not another chatbot. It is software that can run the machines on a factory floor, and a two-year-old Israeli startup has just raised $20m on the strength of programming parts for Jeff Bezos’s rockets. Limitless Labs, formerly LimitlessCNC, closed a $20m Series A co-led by Dell Technologies […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-06-16

More Big Tech executives just became Army officers. The conflict-of-interest question is getting louder.

The US Army has commissioned three more technology executives into Detachment 201, the reserve unit that gives Silicon Valley leaders the rank of lieutenant colonel and a direct advisory line to senior military officials. Dane Knecht, chief technology officer of Cloudflare, Sam Pullara, CTO and managing director of Sutter Hill Ventures, and Serkan Piantino, a […]<br /> This story continues [...]

2026-06-16

This Swedish startup doesn’t want to give patent lawyers AI tools. It wants to replace them.

A Swedish startup wants to do to patent attorneys what Harvey and Legora are doing to corporate lawyers, except it is not trying to give them better tools. It wants to replace them. Lightbringer has raised $10m (€8.6m) in a Series A to take its self-styled ‘AI-native patent firm’ into the United States, the world’s […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-06-16

Anthropic spent six months warning the world about AI. Then the government pulled its models.

No company in the AI industry has done more to warn the public about the technology it is building than Anthropic. No company has had those warnings turned against it quite so brutally. In the past six months, Anthropic has published a 19,000-word essay on civilisational risk, weakened its own safety pledge, been designated a […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]