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Redwood Materials launches energy storage business and its first target is AI data centers Jun 30, 2025

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Redwood Materials has launched a new business — taking old EV batteries to store energy and help power businesses.

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As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue, plus people use AI for companionship much less than we’re led to think Jun 30, 2025

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Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more. Also, a report by Anthropic reveals that people rarely seek companionship from AI, and turn to AI for emotional support or advice only 2.9% of the time.

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Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books Jun 28, 2025

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A federal judge sided with Meta on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against the company by 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on their copyrighted works.

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Sam Altman comes out swinging at The New York Times Jun 27, 2025

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From the moment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped onstage, it was clear this was not going to be a normal interview. Altman and his chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, stood awkwardly toward the back of the stage at a jam-packed San Francisco venue that typically hosts jazz concerts. Hundreds of people filled steep theatre-style seating

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Bill Gates-backed AirLoom begins building its first power plant Jun 27, 2025

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Wind power has run into some headwinds, and not the kind that spin its turbines. Recently, President Trump has decided to wage war against the technology, an unwelcome bit of friction that coincides with rising costs in recent years.

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Kodiak is using Vay’s remote driving tech in its self-driving trucks Jun 26, 2025

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Kodiak Robotics has partnered with driverless car-sharing startup Vap to bring a remote-driving system into its self-driving trucks operation.

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Novoloop is making tons of upcycled plastic Jun 26, 2025

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Novoloop recently raised a $21 million Series B to begin building its first commercial scale plastic upcycling plant.

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How a data processing problem at Lyft became the basis for Eventual Jun 25, 2025

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Eventual's data processing engine Daft was inspried by the founders' experience working on Lyft's autonomous vehicle project.

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Why Danny Boyle shot ‘28 Years Later’ on iPhones ... and more tech news Jun 25, 2025

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Director Danny Boyle famously shot his post-apocalyptic classic “28 Days Later” on Canon digital cameras, making it easier for him to capture eerie scenes of an abandoned London, and giving the movie’s fast-moving zombies a terrifying immediacy. Also, LinkedIn users seem to have embraced AI, but there’s one area that’s seen less uptake than expected, according to CEO Ryan Roslansky: the AI-generated suggestions for polishing your LinkedIn posts; Google's adding a slew of AI features to the Chromebook Plus line, including a search and text capture tool, NotebookLM, and a tool for simplifying text; European governments may be reconsidering their use of American technology and services, according to a new report in The New York Times; a Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday.

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SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up Jun 24, 2025

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Finom, an Amsterdam-based challenger bank for SMBs that claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, closed a €115 million Series C equity round (around $133 million).

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