‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted

Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers’ data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.

Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s firm nabs $620M government contract

Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup, has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S. defense department.

WordPress’s vibe-coding experiment, Telex, has already been put to real-world use

Though WordPress’s Telex is still an experiment, the vibe-coding software has already been used to help build real-world websites.

VCs deploy ‘kingmaking’ strategy to crown AI winners in their infancy

While VCs have long used big investments to spur category winners, they are taking this strategy to new extremes.

Andy Jassy says Amazon’s Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business

Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia’s AI chip dominance? Maybe not entirely, but Amazon is already making big bucks trying.

Trump administration rolls back fuel economy standards, again

The regulatory decision would make it harder for future administrations to implement stricter fuel efficiency standards.

Could MrBeast IPO? His CEO wants fans to have ‘a chance to be owners of the company’

Three years ago, the idea of a YouTuber with a $1.5 billion valuation left some onlookers incredulous — but Beast Industries ended up raising at a $5 billion valuation last year. Now we’re asking a bigger question: Would you buy stock in a 27-year-old named Jimmy?

Roblox banned in Russia, local media says

Russia’s communications agency cited the presence of LGBTQ content on the platform as one of the reasons behind the ban.

Amazon hopes to jump-start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups

Can Kiro win the hearts of startup founders above the many AI coding tools they already have? Amazon hopes a free year will tempt them.

Meta poaches Apple design exec Alan Dye to lead new creative studio in Reality Labs

Dye led Apple’s user interface team for the last decade.