Journals

Will Knight / Wired: Sunday Robotics unveils Memo, a fully autonomous home robot capable of tasks like making espresso and loading dishwashers, set to launch in beta in 2026  —  Sunday Robotics has a new way to train robots to… Read More »Sunday Robotics unveils Memo, a fully autonomous home robot capable of tasks like making espresso and loading dishwashers, set to launch in beta in 2026 (Will Knight/Wired)

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Circana: EA’s Battlefield 6 became 2025’s best-selling US game less than a month after its October 10 debut; Pokémon is 2025’s fastest-selling physical game  —  Electronic Arts Inc.’s Battlefield 6 needed less than a month to… Read More »Circana: EA’s Battlefield 6 became 2025’s best-selling US game less than a month after its October 10 debut; Pokémon is 2025’s fastest-selling physical game (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)

Kayla Cobb / The Wrap: IAB: ad spend in the creator ecosystem in 2025 is expected to rise 26% YoY to $37B, vastly outperforming ad spend in media overall, set to grow 5.7% YoY  —  Investment has increased 26% year-over-year,… Read More »IAB: ad spend in the creator ecosystem in 2025 is expected to rise 26% YoY to $37B, vastly outperforming ad spend in media overall, set to grow 5.7% YoY (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)

Sri Muppidi / The Information: Sources: SoftBank plans to invest up to $3B to remodel an EV plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that will produce equipment for OpenAI’s forthcoming US data centers  —  SoftBank plans to invest up to $3 billion… Read More »Sources: SoftBank plans to invest up to $3B to remodel an EV plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that will produce equipment for OpenAI’s forthcoming US data centers (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: The CSA says Matter will support video cameras for the first time with Matter 1.5; Amazon and Google have not committed to making their cameras interoperable  —  The Matter smart home standard will soon allow mixing… Read More »The CSA says Matter will support video cameras for the first time with Matter 1.5; Amazon and Google have not committed to making their cameras interoperable (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: Internal memo: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says the company will begin notifying the 13,000+ employees impacted by its largest-ever round of layoffs  —  New CEO launches company’s largest-ever round of cuts and says Verizon… Read More »Internal memo: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says the company will begin notifying the 13,000+ employees impacted by its largest-ever round of layoffs (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)

Jason Parham / Wired: Pornhub parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging the adoption of device-based age verification across their app stores and OSes  —  The company sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft pushing for… Read More »Pornhub parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging the adoption of device-based age verification across their app stores and OSes (Jason Parham/Wired)

David Ingram / NBC News: Cornell researchers: xAI’s Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times  —  An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia… Read More »Cornell researchers: xAI’s Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times (David Ingram/NBC News)

New York Times: Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick promotes AI, including pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are cashing in on the AI projects  —  Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects.  His family companies are… Read More »Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick promotes AI, including pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are cashing in on the AI projects (New York Times)

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber plans to launch sidewalk robot deliveries in Europe via a partnership with Starship, starting in UK cities Leeds and Sheffield in December  —  Uber Technologies Inc. will offer sidewalk robot deliveries in Europe for the… Read More »Uber plans to launch sidewalk robot deliveries in Europe via a partnership with Starship, starting in UK cities Leeds and Sheffield in December (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)