Zillow drops climate risk scores after agents complained of lost sales

The move is a loss for homebuyers, who through Zillow had ready access to a property’s climate risk scores from First Street.

Shopify resolves outage disrupting merchants on Cyber Monday

Shopify was down for many merchants this morning, preventing them from processing transactions. It appears to be fixed now.

One of Google’s biggest AI advantages is what it already knows about you

The promise is AI that’s uniquely helpful because it knows you. But the risk is AI that feels more like surveillance than service.

Apple just named a new AI chief with Google and Microsoft expertise, as John Giannandrea steps down

His replacement is Amar Subramanya, a highly regarded Microsoft executive who spent 16 years at Google, most recently leading engineering for the Gemini Assistant. It’s a savvy hire, given that Subramanya knows the competition intimately.

Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium nabs $70M seed

Gradium, a startup spawned out of French AI lab Kyutai (backed by French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel), launched out of stealth on Tuesday.

What does it mean when Uncle Sam is one of your biggest shareholders? Chip startup xLight is about to find out

You can imagine how this is all going over in Silicon Valley, where the libertarian ethos runs deep.

Amazon Music’s 2025 Delivered is now here to compete with Spotify Wrapped

Amazon Music’s 2025 Delivered introduced new badges for listeners to show off. For example, the “Headliner” badge recognizes fans who fall in the top percentage of an artist’s listeners.

India plans to verify and record every smartphone in circulation

The Indian government has ordered smartphone makers to preinstall its Sanchar Saathi app on all devices, a move that is raising fresh privacy concerns.

OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal

Analysts will be watching to see if Thrive-owned firms actually succeed in building long-term profitable businesses using OpenAI’s tech, or if the result is really just pumped up valuations based on speculative market potential. 

Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys bet tightens its grip on the chip-design stack

The $2 billion investment in Synopsys, which makes software and components for designing semiconductor chips, deepens their existing partnership at a time when analysts scrutinize circular AI-industry deals and warn of a potential bubble.