2026-08-03

No shade Sony, but Hideo Kojima is celebrating his love of physical discs with a new limited edition version of my favorite mini CD player

Kojima Productions is collaborating with audio brand km5 on a cute limited edition CD player. [...]

2026-08-03

I tested the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, and it's truly like having an iPad mini or a Kindle in your pocket

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 is the foldable for people who never thought they’d want one. [...]

2026-08-03

Amazon stock topped $3 trillion in market value for the first time after cloud growth surged

Amazon Web Services posted $42.2 billion in second-quarter revenue, topping analyst expectations by more than $1.6 billion [...]

2026-08-03

Hugging Face CEO says China is winning the AI race and could dominate by year's end

Clément Delangue told CNBC that Chinese developers are collaborating openly while U.S. labs are "building in silos" [...]

2026-08-03

White House is meeting with AI companies to roll out its new frontier model review framework

The administration says the voluntary framework, ordered by Trump in June, was completed by its deadline, but has declined to share its contents publicly [...]

2026-08-03

Zenity Raises $125 Million as Enterprises Confront the Security Risks of Autonomous AI Agents

Zenity has raised $125 million in Series C funding as businesses move artificial intelligence agents from controlled experiments into systems capable of accessing data, invoking software tools and completing operational tasks. Norwest led the round, with Qumra Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures and LG Technology Ventures joining as new investors. Existing backers Vertex Ventures, Th [...]

2026-08-03

Valar Atomics Raises $1B to Mass-Produce Nuclear Reactors

Valar Atomics has closed a $1 billion Series B led by Sequoia Capital, money the three-year-old nuclear company says will take it from running a single test reactor in Utah to building small reactors on a production line. Valar announced the round on August 3, 2026, along with a separate $200 million credit facility, and said Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire is joining its board. The announcement nam [...]

2026-08-03

The pros and cons of using Apple AirTags

AirTags are great, but there are competing trackers that offer handy features and unique form factors. [...]

2026-08-03

Gemini Spark now has Chrome web-browsing capabilities

Google's AI assistant can "use your logged-in accounts and saved passwords to handle tedious web errands." [...]