MapTap is a phone game that will make you feel smarter after you play it.
General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation
General Intuition is in talks to raise around $300 million at a roughly $2 billion valuation from backers including Jeff Bezos. The startup trains AI agents on spatial-temporal reasoning.
A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight
Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.
NC STEM e-Update (June 18, 2026)
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Spotify’s reserved ticket sales to music superfans are now going live
Spotify is launching “Reserved,” a new system that will hold two concert tickets for an artist’s superfans before they’re on sale to the public.
Adobe adds its AI assistant to Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign
Adobe is updating its Firefly AI assistant with new chops, and adding it to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io.
Pixi’s new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences
Forget stickers, GIFs, and emoji reactions. Pixi is betting that the next evolution of messaging is interactive augmented reality (AR).
Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones
The company has identified at least 13 instances where its robotaxis drove into highway sections closed for construction.
NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX
Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX to Mars.
How to turn off AI in your Google Docs
Here’s what you need to do to get those pesky “write with Gemini” pop-ups to go away.