Google will keep third-party tracking cookies on Chrome as they are

Google will not make any to changes to how third-party cookies work on the Chrome browser at all. Anthony Chavez, Google VP for Privacy Sandbox, has announced that the company has "made the decis [...]

How an Oregon court became the stage for a $115,000 showdown between Meta and Facebook creators

Some of the most successful creators on Facebook aren't names you'd ever recognize. In fact, many of their pages don't have a face or recognizable persona attached. Instead, they run pa [...]

Google has killed Privacy Sandbox

Google's Privacy Sandbox is officially dead. In an update on the project's website, Google Vice President Anthony Chavez has announced that the company was sunsetting the remaining technolog [...]

Satya Nadella warns that AI could hollow out entire industries, echoing the damage done by globalization

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a sweeping essay on Sunday laying out what he describes as the defining economic challenge of the AI era: the risk that a handful of frontier models will absorb t [...]

Yahoo is adding generative AI to its search engine

Yahoo has announced a new AI-powered "answer engine", dubbed Yahoo Scout. The new tool is available now in beta and is powered by Anthropic's Claude.<br /> The company says Scout [...]

SPARQ opens $8.5M seed round for AI-native game engine, with a16z’s scout fund on the cap table

SPARQ, a UAE-based startup building what it calls an AI-native game engine, has opened an $8.5m seed round with early participation from the a16z Scout Fund, the vehicle Andreessen Horowitz uses to b [...]

7 of the most interesting wine pairings you can try tonight

Conventional wisdom says steak should be paired with red wine, chicken and fish should be paired with white wine, and gorgeous summer days on your patio should be paired with rosé.Read more... [...]

New Girl Scout Cookies Taste Like Rocky Road Ice Cream: How to Get Them

The chocolate sandwich cookie is filled with chocolate, marshmallow and toasted almond-flavored creme. And tech company Adobe is involved. [...]

Meta introduces Llama 4 with two new AI models available now, and two more on the way

Meta has released the first two models from its multimodal Llama 4 suite: LLama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. Maverick is “the workhorse” of the two and excels at image and text understanding for [...]