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Pinterest CEO calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16

Pinterest’s CEO, Bill Ready, has called for governments to ban social media for users under 16 in a new Time op-ed. He’s now one of the few top CEOs to call for such a restriction, as nations worldwide begin to implement or consider ways to limit children’s online time, and …

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Amid legal turmoil, Kalshi is temporarily banned in Nevada

Kalshi isn’t having a very good week. On Tuesday, the attorney general of Arizona filed a 20-count criminal complaint against the online prediction market, accusing it of running an illegal gambling business. Now, another southwestern state has taken a big swing at the company: A judge in Nevada has temporarily …

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What happened at Nvidia GTC: NemoClaw, Robot Olaf, and a $1 trillion bet

CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia’s GTC conference this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027, declaring that every company needs an “OpenClaw strategy,” and closing with a rambling Olaf robot that had to get …

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Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows

Microsoft announced on Friday a series of changes focused on improving the quality of its Windows 11 operating system, which notably includes dialing back the number of entry points to its AI assistant, Copilot. The company said it will reduce Copilot AI integrations in some apps, starting with Photos, Widgets, …

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Elon Musk misled Twitter investors while trying to get out of acquisition, jury says

A civil jury in California on Friday ruled that Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter investors when he tried to back out of his $44 billion acquisition of the platform in 2022. At the time, Musk had tweeted that Twitter had too many bots, which is why he later tried to …

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New court filing reveals Pentagon told Anthropic the two sides were nearly aligned — a week after Trump declared the relationship kaput

Anthropic submitted two sworn declarations to a California federal court late Friday afternoon, pushing back on the Pentagon’s assertion that the AI company poses an “unacceptable risk to national security” and arguing that the government’s case relies on technical misunderstandings and claims that were never actually raised during the months …

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Tubi joins forces with popular TikTokers to create original streaming content

In a move to appeal to its younger viewers, the Fox-owned streaming service Tubi has launched its “Creatorverse Incubator” in partnership with TikTok. The initiative announced on Thursday gives content creators support — such as promotions and the potential of funding — to create original shows exclusively for Tubi. The …

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Consumer-focused privacy company Cloaked raises $375M as it expands to enterprise

Consumer-facing security tools often focus on one kind of modality, such as password protection, VPNs, or identity management. This forces people to use multiple tools to keep their data private. Cloaked, the company that instead offers a bundle of security and privacy solutions, announced on Thursday that it has secured …

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Alphabet’s X has a new spinout, and it’s going after one of the world’s most expensive bureaucratic nightmares

For more than a decade, Alphabet’s X moonshot factory has been quietly trying to fix one of the world’s most stubborn industries. It failed twice, but this time the industry itself is along for the ride. On Thursday, X said that Anori, its platform for streamlining the notoriously tangled process …

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Tools for founders to navigate and move past conflict

The stakes are high for any founding team, so conflict should be expected, even encouraged. However, company culture is built on real reactions and interactions, not the values you put on the wall. If team members see co-founders or the leadership team getting heated and falling into unproductive fighting, that …

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