July 11, 2026

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk: These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Read More

5 desk gadgets that can make your workday better: The right desk gadgets can help you reduce clutter, stay focused, and add a little extra convenience to your day. Read More

Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created: In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam. Read More

General Compute raised $15m to build the worlds first ASIC cloud. By removing the GPU bottleneck, it runs frontier LLMs up to 16x faster than standard GPU clouds. ASIC silicon is also far more energy efficient, so it deploys in air-cooled data centers, making growth and expansion dramatically easier.

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft: Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee. Read More

Instagram users: Here’s how to stop Meta’s AI from using your photos: Muse Image allows users to generate AI images using photos from public Instagram accounts. As long as a person's profile is public, another user can tag that account and use their images as part of an AI-generated creation. Read More

Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to 'cut off' Anthropic: Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can. Read More

Phia accused of 'cookie stuffing,' taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn't earn: Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend Sophia Kianni is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg investigation.  Read More

Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash: "Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer available." Read More

Oct 13–15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, 10,000 founders, investors, and operators gather for high-signal insights, curated connections, and real momentum.

OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households: ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting. Read More