YouTube is testing a sleep timer on its Premium tier

YouTube routinely experiments with new features on its Premium tier, and its latest test involves a sleep timer that pauses the video after, well, a set period of time. It’s not an earth-shattering feature, but it’s still bound to be handy for people who like to go to sleep with long po

Ola Electric surges 20% in India’s biggest listing in two years

Ola Electric, India’s largest electric two-wheeler maker, surged by 20% on its public debut on Friday, making it the biggest listing among Indian firms in two years. Shares of the Bengaluru-based firm, which counts SoftBank and Temasek among its backers, jumped to ?91.20 (about $1.1) after

Rocket Lab's sunny outlook bodes well for future constellation plans 

Rocket Lab surpassed $100 million in quarterly revenue for the first time, a 71% increase from the same quarter of last year. This is just one of several shiny accomplishments executives showed off to investors on Thursday — and a good omen for the space company’s medium-term ambitious plan

CloudPay, a payroll services provider, lands $120M in new funding

In 1996, two companies, Patersons HR and Payroll Solutions, formed a venture called CloudPay to provide payroll and payments services to enterprise clients. CloudPay grew quietly over the next several decades, adding workflow automation features to maintain pace with upstart rivals. It’s sti

Security bugs in ransomware leak sites helped save six companies from paying hefty ransoms

A security researcher says six companies were saved from having to pay potentially hefty ransom demands, in part thanks to rookie security flaws found in the web infrastructure used by the ransomware gangs themselves. Two companies received the decryption keys to unscramble their data without havi

Rabbit’s r1 refines chats and timers, but its app-using ‘action model’ is still MIA

Rabbit’s r1, the AI assistant gadget whose hype train has somewhat slowed since its debut at CES, has some updates to share — but probably not anything that will change its critics’ minds just yet. A new “beta rabbit” mode adds some conversational AI chops to the device,

Archer to set up air taxi network in LA by 2026 ahead of World Cup

Los Angeles is notorious for its back-to-back traffic. Three events that promise to bring in millions of spectators from around the world — the 2026 World Cup, the Super Bowl in 2027 and the 2028 Olympics — have LA officials searching for a range of new mobility solutions to address its congest

Amazon is fumbling in India

About two years ago, a VC firm was evaluating an investment in a quick-commerce startup in India. The company’s instant delivery model was showing signs of success in the South Asian market, even as many startups in the space were struggling in developed markets. But the firm was wary: Could

OpenAI finds that GPT-4o does some truly bizarre stuff sometimes

OpenAI’s GPT-4o, the generative AI model that powers the recently launched alpha of Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT, is the company’s first trained on voice as well as text and image data. And that leads it to behave in strange ways sometimes — like mimicking the voice of the perso

Box adds crucial piece to its AI platform with Alphamoon acquisition

Box announced on Thursday that it had acquired Alphamoon, a small Polish startup that specializes in intelligent document processing, a technology that helps companies extract metadata from dense text documents — think contracts and loan applications — automatically. The companies didn't s

OpenAI adds a Carnegie Mellon professor to its board of directors

OpenAI has announced a new appointment to its board of directors: Zico Kolter. Kolter, a professor and director of the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon, predominantly focuses his research on AI safety. This makes him an “invaluable technical director for [OpenAI’s] gover

Spotify and Epic Games call Apple’s revised DMA compliance plan ‘confusing,’ ‘illegal’ and ‘unacceptable’

Count Spotify and Epic Games among the Apple critics who are not happy with the iPhone maker’s newly revised compliance plan for the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA). Shortly after Apple announced the updated version on Thursday, including loosened restrictions along with the ad

Thursday, the dating app that you can use only on Thursdays, expands to San Francisco

Thursday seeks to shake up conventional online dating in a crowded market. The app, which recently expanded to San Francisco, fosters intentional dating by restricting user access to Thursdays. At midnight, all matches disappear. The idea is that by restricting usage to one day a week, potenti

Instagram is embracing the ‘photo dump’

Instagram is rolling out the ability for users to add up to 20 photos or videos to their feed carousels, as the platform embraces the trend of “photo dumps.” Back in 2017, Instagram added the ability to post up to 10 photos or videos in one swipeable carousel post. Now, you can post dou