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Apple’s Self Service Repair program is expanding to the iPad, the tech giant announced on Wednesday. The program will give iPad owners the tools they need to repair their devices at home. They can get access to repair manuals, genuine Apple parts, Apple Diagnostics troubleshooting sessions, tools, and rental toolkits. Starting Thursday, users who have… Read more

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on Wednesday said Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is investing $300 million worth of cash and equity in the chat app. Read more

Instacart announced on Wednesday that its chief business officer, Chris Rogers, has been appointed as the company’s new CEO. The appointment is effective August 15. Rogers will also join Instacart’s Board of Directors. The announcement comes a few weeks after Instacart CEO Fidji Simo shared that she’s stepping down to join OpenAI as CEO of Applications. Simo… Read more

Atomic Canyon raised $7 million in a seed round to expand its document search AI for nuclear power plants. Read more

Elon Musk’s brain implant startup, Neuralink, has raised $600 million in a funding round that values the company at $9 billion pre-money, Semafor reported, citing anonymous sources. Semafor did not mention the investors involved in the round. Neuralink last raised $43 million in venture capital, in November 2023, and was valued at about $5 billion… Read more

All Thibault Launay and his wife Simi wanted nearly five years ago was to build a dream home in Portugal, where they both now live.  But what they encountered instead was a broken system. “Fourteen months of delays, 20% budget overruns, and endless stress managing over 10 subcontractors,” Thibault recalled. They bought the land in… Read more

Opera’s new browser, called Opera Neon, will focus on AI workflows and performing tasks for you, like shopping, coding and generating reports. Read more

Humain, the state-owned AI company from Saudi Arabia, is reportedly on track to launch a $10 billion venture fund, Humain Ventures. Read more

SpaceX’s Starship successfully separated from its Super Heavy rocket booster and reached orbit Tuesday evening, but later began spinning and made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Indian Ocean. SpaceX had cleared the surrounding airspace where Starship was coming down, according to the company. The ninth test flight provided a mix of successes and failures for… Read more

Anthropic has begun to roll out a “voice mode” for its Claude chatbot apps. The voice mode (in beta for now) allows Claude mobile app users to have “complete spoken conversations with Claude,” and will arrive in English over the next few weeks, according to Anthropic’s official account on X and updated documentation on the… Read more