Airwallex raises $320M at an $11bn valuation

Airwallex has raised $320M at an $11bn valuation, up from $8bn in December. The payments company is now pivoting to “autonomous finance” and AI agents that transact on your behalf. Airwallex, the [...]

How to turn off Google’s AI Overviews in web searches

Google’s AI Overviews do not save me time. For one, I work for a tech blog and am therefore professionally curious as to whether or not the generated answers are correct, so I spend a few ticks figu [...]

Airwallex raises $320m at an $11bn valuation, betting on agentic finance

A 38% jump in valuation over six months is the kind of figure that tells you where investor appetite has gone. Airwallex, the global payments company, has raised $320m in a Series H round that values [...]

1.5 billion people see Google's AI Overviews each month

Google just touted some big numbers regarding its AI Overviews feature during its I/O conference. On the stage, company CEO Sundar Pichai said that the service has 1.5 billion monthly users. That' [...]

Google faces its first AI Overviews lawsuit from a major US publisher

Even though Google's AI Overviews were introduced with a comically rocky start, it's about to face a far more serious challenge. Penske Media, the publisher for Rolling Stone, Variety, Billb [...]

YouTube is testing its own version of AI Overviews

If you’ve performed a Google search lately, you’ve undoubtedly come across an AI Overview in your search results. This tool, powered by Google’s Gemini, tries to save you some clicks by aggregat [...]

Hitman on iOS, martial arts survival and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. One very well-known indie found its way to iOS devices this week, though there are other new releases worth highlighting an [...]

Tech’s biggest losers in 2024

The tricky thing about naming the year’s biggest losers in tech is that in 2024, it once again felt like everyone lost. Amid the depressing spiral that is social media, the will-they-or-won’t-they [...]

From Silicon Valley to Nairobi: What the Global South’s AI leapfrogging teaches tech leaders

When I write about the cognitive migration now underway, brought about by the rapid advance of gen AI, I do so from the perspective of someone who has spent four decades in the technology industry. My [...]