In the last few years, India’s online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public and the number of cloud kitchens increasing. Meanwhile, startups working on home services, such as on-demand household staffing platforms like Urban Company, Snabbit, and Pronto, have gained popularity.
Silicon Valley-based startup Human Archive is tapping into this trend…
Xreal, Google’s smart glasses partner, thinks it has finally mastered this notoriously tricky industry
May 27, 2026
The smart glasses industry has long been a tortured dream of Silicon Valley. The premise is appealing enough: What if, to enjoy the benefits of mobile computing, people didn’t have to stare at their phones all day long and could, instead, simply wear a lightweight…
Elon Musk has given up on solar power (on Earth)
May 26, 2026
Has Elon Musk given up on Tesla’s Master Plans, on the electrified economy, on solar power as we know it? From the SpaceX IPO filing released this week, it sure seems like it.
A recap for those not enmeshed in the Musk-verse: Tesla has released four Master Plans over the…
AI’s biggest champions have argued for some time that the technology will usher in an era of unprecedented productivity gains, richly rewarding workers who harness it while displacing those who don’t.
Zeb Evans, CEO of the collaboration software startup ClickUp, claims that this shift is imminent. Last Thursday, Evans announced on X that the company, which was last valued in 2021 at $4…
The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI
May 26, 2026
Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical on Monday. Titled Magnifica Humanitas, it addresses “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.” And while AI is the hook, the problems Leo focuses on are older and more pervasive: inequality, war…
Google goes for the glitter with disco-ball icons: ‘Are y’all sure you still want this?’
May 25, 2026
So bad, it’s good? Google on Friday joined in the disco ball icon fun taking place on home screens everywhere. After Spotify’s temporary new disco ball app icon, released to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary, drew extensive online backlash (and a bit of praise…
Last month, Scott Stevenson, co-founder and CEO of the legal AI startup Spellbook, took to X in an effort to expose what he called a “huge scam” among AI startups: inflation of the revenue figures that they announce publicly.
“The reason many AI startups are crushing revenue records is because they are using a dishonest metric. The biggest funds in the world are supporting this and…
At the Google I/O developer conference this week, we had the opportunity for a brief hands-on with Google’s upcoming AI-powered glasses – not the audio-only glasses that the company said will begin shipping this fall but rather the glasses that offer a combined audio and…
When the founders of a mental health app for men called Mental saw that one feature – AI interactive audio – was resonating wildly with their users, they knew they were on to something.
And so the idea for a new, and hopefully safer, kind of AI therapy app was born…
One of the most promising introductions at Google’s I/O developer conference on Tuesday was a new way for consumers to use the web: AI agents. Unfortunately, it was also the most confusing.
Google took the wraps off information agents, a reinvention of the aging Google Alerts service, now infused with AI. These AI agents are designed to operate in the background 24/7, helping users stay up to…
