Rivian gets another $1B from Volkswagen
The two companies have been collaborating on a joint venture that would see Rivian tech go in VW’s EVs.
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Iranian hackers claim breach of FBI director Kash Patel’s personal email account
Handala, a pro-Iranian hacking group allegedly working for Iran’s government, published emails it said were taken from the Gmail account of FBI director Kash Patel.
Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware
The tech giant’s claim that it has not seen any successful spyware attacks targeting Apple devices with Lockdown Mode enabled comes amid a leak of hacking tools targeting users running…
OpenAI shuts down Sora while Meta gets shut out in court
When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman was offered $26 million from an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure, that same company…
7 Free Web APIs Every Developer and Vibe Coder Should Know
Learn which tools help AI agents search, scrape, crawl, map websites, answer questions, and research the web faster.
A New AI Documentary Puts CEOs in the Hot Seat—but Goes Too Easy on Them
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist seeks the middle ground on a polarizing technology—and ends up letting tech execs like Sam Altman off the hook.
I Asked ChatGPT 500 Questions. Here Are the Ads I Saw Most Often
Ads are rolling out across the US on ChatGPT’s free tier. I asked OpenAI’s bot 500 questions to see what these ads were like and how they related to my…
Clausul, Harvey, Docusign, Legal Innovators Europe +
Welcome to this week’s AL Wrap, and let’s start with Clausul, a new legal tech startup out of Stockholm Sweden, that is redesigning the world …
Meta Releases TRIBE v2: A Brain Encoding Model That Predicts fMRI Responses Across Video, Audio, and Text Stimuli
Neuroscience has long been a field of divide and conquer. Researchers typically map specific cognitive functions to isolated brain regions—like motion to area V5 or faces to the fusiform gyrus—using…
Google Releases Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: A Real-Time Multimodal Voice Model for Low-Latency Audio, Video, and Tool Use for AI Agents
Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash Live in preview for developers through the Gemini Live API in Google AI Studio. This model targets low-latency, more natural, and more reliable real-time…