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Better’s new ChatGPT app targets Rocket and UWM lenders

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 5, 2026

Vishal Garg, Better.comSource: Better.comThe online mortgage platform Better has partnered with OpenAI to launch an app within ChatGPT that the…

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Meta recently hired the engineering team from Atma Sciences, the company behind mood coding app Gizmo, to join its superintelligence labs (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 5, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: Flock Safety’s Garrett Langley on creating technology to solve crime Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews founders,…

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Claude reached second place on Apple’s US App Store, hours after the DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk; it bounced between No. 20 and No. 50 for much of February (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Anthropic vs. the Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Lightricks, maker of photo-editing app Facetune, is separating its consumer applications unit from its GenAI LTX unit to better capture the growth of AI (Echo Wang/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 23, 2026

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How Malwarebytes is protecting millions in the age of AI scams | Marcin Kleczynski Grit explores what…

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Bengaluru-based Sarvam, which builds AI models for local languages, launches its Indus chat app in beta, powered by its Sarvam 105B model (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 21, 2026

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Sarvam, which builds AI models for local languages, is launching its Indus chat app in…

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Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app based on the AT protocol, making it the first private messaging available natively within the Bluesky app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 19, 2026

Sarah Pérez / TechCrunch: Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging application based on the AT protocol, making it…

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Sources: Apple tweaked its Maps app for Tesla ahead of electric vehicle maker’s planned addition of CarPlay; Low-cost MacBooks will get a playfully colored aluminum chassis (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 15, 2026

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple tweaked its Maps app for Tesla ahead of electric vehicle maker’s planned addition of…

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ByteDance launches Doubao 2.0, an “agent-age” upgrade of China’s most widely used AI app capable of performing multi-step tasks, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 14, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion The Big Technology Podcast…

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Spotify is partnering with Bookshop.org to allow Premium users in the US and UK to purchase hardcover and paperback books through its app this spring; Bookshop.org fulfills orders (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 5, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Nick, Dick and Paul Show: Side effects may include… (Wellness Industry, Part 2) Nick Bilton, Dick Costolo…

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After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on the Grok app, website and X, rarely resisting user requests (Robert Hart/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: A Child Psychologist’s Guide to Working with Difficult Adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy Interviews with world-class…

ASEAN, China unlikely to finalize South China Sea Code of Conduct at next summit – Radio Free Asia

Heat maps show North Korea’s largest greenhouse at less than half capacity – Radio Free Asia

Balikatan 2026 exercises will highlight Manila’s ‘more active defense posture’ – Radio Free Asia

North Korean agents use fake identities to apply for tech jobs – Radio Free Asia

Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison – Radio Free Asia

Generation X is driving beauty sales

The clock is ticking for Spirit Airlines as bondholders weigh in on Trump bailout

New York pied-à-terre tax sparks legal fight over values

Procter & Gamble (PG) Third Quarter 2026 Results

FDA Speeds Up Research on Psychedelic Drugs Following Trump Order

White House Correspondents’ Shooter’s Dinner Changes Nothing

Many Americans don’t care about Trump’s third assassination attempt

Jamie Raskin crushes Dana Bash’s efforts to blame Democrats for WHCD attacker

Trump brags about crowd size after someone tries to shoot up WHCD

The shooter did NOT enter the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company’s ICE and DOD contracts during Trump’s second term, his manifesto, and more (Makena Kelly/Ars Technica)

A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become a must-listen in the AI community, with guests including Jensen Huang, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg (Benjamin Wallace/New York Times)

Sources: Genki Robotics, a Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a valuation of approximately $1 billion; it raised around $50 million in 2025 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique managed by an AI agent; Andon Labs experiment uses an agent based on Claude Sonnet 4.6 to manage the store (Heather Knight/New York Times)

An interview with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Executive Vice President Matt Booty on the “Return of Xbox” memo, making Xbox Series X and S a “first-class experience again,” and more (Stephen Totilo/Game File)

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Better’s new ChatGPT app targets Rocket and UWM lenders

Meta recently hired the engineering team from Atma Sciences, the company behind mood coding app Gizmo, to join its superintelligence labs (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)

Claude reached second place on Apple’s US App Store, hours after the DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk; it bounced between No. 20 and No. 50 for much of February (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Lightricks, maker of photo-editing app Facetune, is separating its consumer applications unit from its GenAI LTX unit to better capture the growth of AI (Echo Wang/Reuters)

Bengaluru-based Sarvam, which builds AI models for local languages, launches its Indus chat app in beta, powered by its Sarvam 105B model (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app based on the AT protocol, making it the first private messaging available natively within the Bluesky app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sources: Apple tweaked its Maps app for Tesla ahead of electric vehicle maker’s planned addition of CarPlay; Low-cost MacBooks will get a playfully colored aluminum chassis (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

ByteDance launches Doubao 2.0, an “agent-age” upgrade of China’s most widely used AI app capable of performing multi-step tasks, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

Spotify is partnering with Bookshop.org to allow Premium users in the US and UK to purchase hardcover and paperback books through its app this spring; Bookshop.org fulfills orders (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)

After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on the Grok app, website and X, rarely resisting user requests (Robert Hart/The Verge)