Dear Games Team, This morning, we are making a number of changes in our Games business. While you’ve likely seen Beth Galetti’s note earlier this morning regarding the larger changes at Amazon that are taking place today, I wanted to dive a bit deeper with all of you, since the strategic changes we are making…
GitHub is making a bold bet that enterprises don't need another proprietary coding agent. They need a way to manage all of them. At its Universe 2025 conference, the Microsoft-owned developer platform announced Agent HQ. The new architecture transforms GitHub into a unified control plane for managing multiple AI coding agents from competitors including Anthropic,…
The philanthropist thinks climate change is a serious problem but is confident scientific innovation will curb it. Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem but it won’t be the end of civilization. He thinks scientific innovation will curb it, and it’s instead time for a “strategic pivot” in the global climate fight: from…
Auston Bunsen had a lot of free time after his company QuickNode reached a certain size. That company, a blockchain developer platform, was founded in 2017 and subsequently raised around $60 million in funding, according to Pitchbook. Then Bunsen started thinking about the fact that people would perhaps like to unlock their doors with their iPhone. “I eventually met…
With Meta’s new range of smart glasses, Mark Zuckerberg is pitching a vision of the future that sci-fi authors have been warning about for decades — one where privacy is truly dead, and everyone is recording everyone else at all times. This in itself is nothing new. Introduced at the company’s recent Meta Connect event,…
While enterprises looking to sell goods and services online wait for the backbone of agentic commerce to be hashed out, PayPal is hoping its new features will bridge the gap. The payments company is launching a discoverability solution that allows enterprises to make its product available on any chat platform, regardless of the model or…
The MTA says the spiked partitions it has introduced at 180-plus stations have helped reduce evasions. But at what cost? In January 2025, subway riders at the 59th Street-Lexington Avenue station in Manhattan noticed a surprising new addition: spiked metal partitions between each fare gate. Some commuters called the partitions “silly and foolish.” Others said…
OpenAI is offering its ChatGPT Go plan available free of charge for one year to users in India who sign up during a limited promotional period starting November 4, as the company looks to expand in one of its top markets. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced the promotion but did not specify how long the offer…
Of all the companies that could have launched a robot vacuum in 2025, I didn’t have DJI in the running — but here we are. The drone and camera manufacturer released the DJI Romo robovac in Europe today, following its China debut this summer. The Romo is a combo robot vacuum and mop with a…
A new framework developed by researchers at Google Cloud and DeepMind aims to address one of the key challenges of developing computer use agents (CUAs): Gathering high-quality training examples at scale. The framework, dubbed Watch & Learn (W&L), addresses the problem of training data generation in a way that doesn’t require human annotation and can…
