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India’s Sarvam launches Indus AI chat app as competition heats up

Sarvam's Indus chat app is currently available in beta.

The creator economy’s ad revenue problem and India’s AI ambitions

The creator economy is evolving fast, and ad revenue alone isn’t cutting it anymore. YouTubers are launching product lines, acquiring startups, and building actual business empires. In fact, MrBeast’s company bought fintech startup Step, and his chocolate business is outearning his media arm. This isn’t just one creator’s strategy. For many, it’s the new playbook.&#16

Runlayer is now offering secure OpenClaw agentic capabilities for large enterprises

OpenClaw, the open source AI agent that excels at autonomous tasks on computers and which users can communicate with through popular messaging apps, has undoubtedly become a phenomena since its launch in November 2025, and especially in the last few months.Lured by the promise of greater business automation, solopreneurs and employees of large enterprises are increasingly installing it on their work machines — despite a number of documented security risks.Now, as a result IT and security departm

Remember HQ? ‘Quiz Daddy’ Scott Rogowsky is back with TextSavvy, a daily mobile game show

The former HQ host Scott Rogowsky is back with TextSavvy, a live mobile game show that he's building on his own terms.

Anthropic-funded group backs candidate attacked by rival AI super PAC

Dueling pro-AI PACs have centered around backing or targeting one New York congressional bid: Alex Bores, whose RAISE Act requires AI developers to disclose safety protocols and report serious system misuse.

Elon Musk flipped a switch. Now, Russia is desperately sending men up towers to die

One technician climbing a tower. One FPV drone closing in. It sounds like a single tragic frame from an endless war. But it captures something larger: Russia's scramble to replace what Elon Musk took.

Logan Paul Calls Elon Musk ‘Most Important Human’ For This Reason

Logan Paul called Elon Musk the “most important human” in history in a recent podcast appearance when asked about his ...

War rooms, group chats, and video games: Inside Elon Musk's AI startup

It was February 2, and they'd just received a memo from Elon Musk, informing them the AI startup would be acquired by his ...

Krugman: Elon Musk Turning X Into A Cesspool Of White Supremacists "Has Really Changed The Discourse"

There aren't a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way, where you can basically have millionaires ...

Elon Musk’s Tesla unveils cheaper Cybertruck at under $60K — but there’s a catch

Tesla unveiled a cheaper Cybertruck variant in the US late Thursday and slashed the price of its most-expensive model, ...

Elon Musk’s Mom Maye Musk Defends Him Against Criticism and ‘Extreme Negativity’

Maye Musk defends son Elon Musk against media criticism and says the dishonesty and extreme negativity are hard to cope with as he continues high profile work

Apple’s iOS 26.4 arrives in public beta with AI music playlists, video podcasts, and more

Several updates are introduced in iOS 26.4, including an AI-powered playlist-generation feature in Apple Music, support for video content in the Podcasts app, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, and more. 

InScope nabs $14.5M to solve the pain of financial reporting

The startup, founded by accountants who worked at Flexport, Miro, Hopin and Thrive Global, automates the difficulties of prepping financial statements.

Microsoft Copilot ignored sensitivity labels twice in eight months — and no DLP stack caught either one

For four weeks starting January 21, Microsoft's Copilot read and summarized confidential emails despite every sensitivity label and DLP policy telling it not to. The enforcement points broke inside Microsoft’s own pipeline, and no security tool in the stack flagged it. Among the affected organizations was the U.K.'s National Health Service, which logged it as INC46740412 — a signal of how far the failure reached into regulated healthcare environments. Microsoft tracked it as CW1226324.

Great news for xAI: Grok is now pretty good at answering questions about Baldur’s Gate

A new report from Business Insider reveals that high-level engineers at xAI were pulled off other projects to make sure Grok could answer detailed questions about the video game "Baldur's Gate."

Ukrainian man jailed for identity theft that helped North Koreans get jobs at US companies

A Ukrainian man has been sentenced for helping North Koreans gain fraudulent employment at dozens of U.S. companies and funnel that money back to the regime to fund its nuclear weapons program.

Tesla loses bid to overturn $243M Autopilot verdict

"The grounds for relief that Tesla relies upon are virtually the same as those Tesla put forth previously during the course of trial"

Berlin hosts private premiere of ‘Holiguards Saga – The Portal of Force’ with Kevin Spacey and Elvira Paterson

A private premiere screening of “Holiguards Saga – The Portal of Force,” the pilot installment of the planned Holiguards Saga franchise, was held on February 16 at ASTOR Film Lounge Berlin. The event took place in a closed format with invited industry guests, partners, and media representatives. The screening was organized as a formal black-tie […]This story continues at The Next Web

Threads posts can now be shared directly to your Instagram Story without leaving the app

The new Threads feature lets you share your posts — or anyone else's — to your Instagram Story without leaving the Threads app.

Toy Story 5 takes aim at creepy AI toys: ‘I’m always listening’

Addictive, AI-enabled tablets are taking over, and also, Woody is balding in the new Toy Story movie, out June 19.