Developers have made $550 billion on Apple’s App Store since 2008
Apple says its services had a “record-breaking year,” as Apple TV, Apple Music, and Apple Pay also soared.
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health, says 230 million users ask about health each week
The feature, which is expected to roll out in the coming weeks, will offer a dedicated space for conversations with ChatGPT about health.
A viral Reddit post alleging fraud from a food delivery app turned out to be AI-generated
When fake content goes viral, the damage has already been done, even if the post is debunked.
xAI says it raised $20B in Series E funding
Nvidia is among the many investors, but xAI has not disclosed if these investments come in the form of equity or debt.
Lego Smart Bricks introduce a new way to build — and they don’t require screens
Lego developed a custom ASIC chip that allows its new Ssmart Bricks to pick up on signals from surrounding Smart Tags that dictate how it should make sounds or light up.
A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative
Unless if you’re really in the know about nascent platforms, you probably didn’t know what Mastodon was until Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X. In the initial aftermath of the acquisition, as users…
The dumbest things that happened in tech this year
From Sam Altman’s olive oil “scandal” to Soham Parekh’s viral moment, a lot of silly stuff has gone down in tech this year.
Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say
“I think that 2025 was the year where the algorithm completely took over, so followings stopped mattering entirely,” LTK CEO Amber Venz Box said.
Nvidia to license AI chip challenger Groq’s tech and hire its CEO
With Groq on its side, Nvidia is poised to become even more dominant in chip manufacturing.
John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies
These authors rejected Anthropic’s class action settlement, arguing that “LLM companies should not be able to so easily extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at bargain-basement rates.”