The music industry is broken: OpenWav’s new app aims to change that

OpenWav is building a direct-to-fan platform for music artists that lets them keep more of the profits.

OpenAI secures Microsoft’s blessing to transition its for-profit arm

OpenAI and Microsoft say they reached a nonbinding agreement on a revised partnership.

We are entering a golden age of robotics startups — and not just because of AI

The robotics startup market has matured over the last decade and the cost to produce robots has gone down significantly.

A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law

If SB 243 is enacted, California would become the first state to require operators to implement safety protocols for AI companions and hold companies legally accountable if their chatbots fail to meet those standards.

Microsoft slips unscathed through EU competition probe after promising to unbundle Teams

Microsoft will escape largely unscathed from a major antitrust investigation by the European Commission that could have resulted in billion-dollar fines for the tech giant.

Apple delays release of iPhone Air in China due to pending approval of eSIM

The eSIM-only iPhone Air’s release is being delayed in China, likely due to regulatory issues around the approval of the embedded SIM.

Kids in the UK are hacking their own schools for dares and notoriety

Kids are making a mark in the U.K.’s cybersecurity arena, and not in the way their parents want them to.

Box CEO Aaron Levie on AI’s ‘era of context’

Box released a new set of AI tools at its BoxWorks conference on Thursday, filling out CEO Aaron Levie’s vision for an AI-led transformation of the enterprise.

How Bill Gates’s fellowship program is adapting to global uncertainty

As Breakthrough Energy Fellows welcomes a new cohort of 22 startups, it is also diversifying its portfolio to include more global founders.

Apple’s new live translation feature for AirPods won’t be available in the EU at launch

On its official page detailing the features available on iOS 26, the company said EU residents or those with EU Apple IDs won’t be able to use live translation, which is powered by Apple Intelligence and will also be coming to AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2.