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4 May 2026 Vol 19

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This Defense Company Made AI Agents That Blow Things Up

Like many Silicon Valley companies today, Scout AI is training large AI models and agents to automate chores. The big…

SeatGeek and Spotify team up to offer concert ticket sales inside the music platform

SeatGeek announced on Wednesday a new integration with Spotify, bringing a seamless ticket-buying experience for Spotify users.  Now, when Spotify…

A Vast Trove of Exposed Social Security Numbers May Put Millions at Risk of Identity Theft

After years spent finding and investigating data breaches, Greg Pollock admits that when he comes across yet another exposed database…

Amazon halts Blue Jay robotics project after less than six months

Amazon has hundreds of thousands of robots in its warehouses, but that doesn’t mean all of its robotic initiatives are…

Google debuts $499 Pixel 10a

Google on Wednesday introduced its latest entry-level Pixel smartphone. The $499 Pixel 10a launches with new AI software capabilities and…

Ring and Kidde’s Newest Smoke Detector Is Here, and It’s Battery Powered (2026)

Kidde has become the best-known name in the world of smart smoke detectors—a relatively low bar given how few people…

Audible’s new ‘Read & Listen’ feature syncs your Kindle ebooks with audiobooks

Only days after Spotify announced its foray into physical book sales, which included an audiobook feature that lets you sync…

Google adds music generation capabilities to the Gemini app

Google announced on Wednesday that it’s adding a music generation feature to the Gemini app. The company is using DeepMind’s…

Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers

Marketing is one of the few operations no industry can afford to ignore, which is why we have a veritable…

This former Microsoft PM thinks she can unseat CyberArk in 18 months

The internet today has a permissions problem. As non-humans — chatbots, AI agents and automated systems — have proliferated on…