Destination

2026-08-21

Gwyneth Paltrow is allegedly throwing a party for AI king Sam Altman

A leaked invitation says the Goop founder will honor OpenAI’s CEO at a private Hamptons dinner. Her AI ties help explain why. [...]

thenextweb

2026-08-21

Google says Gemma has passed a billion downloads

Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. Developers have published more than 100,000 Gemma variants over the past two years, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google DeepMind, and Olivier Lacombe, a product director there, wrote it. Google calls the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

Destination

2026-08-21

Tokyo's Sushi Bus combines conveyor belt dining with open-air sightseeing

Tokyo's Sushi Bus combines conveyor belt dining with open-air sightseeing. [...]

Destination

2026-08-21

Chinese regulators tell Tesla to fix nearly 3 million cars

Chinese safety regulators have cracked down on doors that don't open in a crash. [...]

Destination

2026-08-21

Fighter jets help destroy Russian drone boat near European offshore gas platform

Romania blew up drone boat to protect lives of several hundred rig workers. [...]

Destination

2026-08-21

Personalized pricing is “abhorrent,” but FTC limits may increase costs, critics say

Some Americans fear the FTC may be thinking about personalized pricing all wrong. [...]

venturebeat

2026-08-20

Serval’s super agent Catalyst creates roving background agents to identify and fix IT issues before they’re ticketed

Serval is making Catalyst, its AI agent for building enterprise automations, generally available Thursday and enabling it by default for customers — allowing teams of AI agents to decide what should be automated and then build the automation itself.Catalyst sits above Serval’s AI-native service management platform as an admin-facing “super agent.” It can inspect ticket history, standard op [...]

thenextweb

2026-08-20

Tesla’s Austin robotaxis are now fully driverless, tracking shows

Tesla’s robotaxi service in Austin appears to have gone fully driverless. Over the past fortnight, every one of the 170 rides logged by an independent monitoring project ran with no human safety monitor on board, across 54 different cars. Two days earlier, a passenger filmed one of those cars driving straight through a line of […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

Destination

2026-08-20

Australia passes law to charge tech companies levies unless they reach deals with news publishers

Meta, Google, TikTok and LinkedIn will have to pay millions to support local news outlets under Australia's new rules. [...]