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Why Autonomous Vehicles Pose Growing Peril to Uber’s Core Business

Uber Technologies has spent years positioning itself as the platform that could one day integrate fleets of self-driving cars. The promise always sounded straightforward. Remove the driver. Lower costs. Expand margins. Yet recent moves by major investors tell a different story. Polen Capital Management sold its entire stake in the ride-hailing giant during the second quarter of 2026. The reason cited in its investor letter struck at the heart of industry anxiety.

Gemini’s $108 Million Quarterly Loss Exposes Crypto Exchange Fragility as Revenue Diversification Lags

Gemini posted a $107.7 million net loss for the second quarter. Revenue climbed 37% to $45.5 million. Yet the numbers tell a story of an exchange still tethered to volatile trading volumes that collapsed amid a soft market.

How Graph Tools Like Cosmograph Are Reshaping On-Chain Investigation

Wall Street has spent decades perfecting charts that forecast stock moves. Now the same impulse drives a quieter revolution in crypto. Analysts stare at sprawling transaction networks instead of price candles. One public visualization at Cosmograph captures that shift in a single interactive canvas. Nodes pulse. Edges thicken with volume. Clusters form around wallets that once hid in plain sight.

Books Still Dominate AI Training Data, Fueling Copyright Lawsuits and a $1B+ Licensing Market by 2026

Anthropic has released a detailed research paper examining how books written by human authors are increasingly feeding the training processes of advanced artificial intelligence models. The study, available through Business Insider, reveals that major AI companies continue to rely heavily on copyrighted literary works despite growing legal challenges and author concerns.

Apple’s 15% Bid for External App Purchases Tests Limits of Court-Ordered Competition

Apple wants a piece of transactions that never touch its payment systems. In a filing submitted this week to a federal court in Northern California, the company proposed commissions of up to 15 percent on purchases completed through links that direct iOS users outside the App Store.

Tim O’Reilly’s Warning: Why Big AI Labs Misread Ordinary Users

Tim O’Reilly has watched technology waves crest and crash for decades. The founder of O’Reilly Media built a publishing empire on books that taught programmers how to ride those waves. Now artificial intelligence threatens to erode the very business he created. Yet he loves the technology. He simply believes its biggest builders have the story wrong.

U.S. Turns Up Heat on Brussels Over Lingering Trade Barriers

BRUSSELS — The United States is pressing the European Union to follow through on promises made more than a year ago. Those promises center on easing rules that American officials say block fair access to European markets. The push comes after tariffs were capped. Now the focus has shifted to deeper regulatory frictions.

EU Sets Strict VPN Security Baseline as Industry Giants Help Write the Rules

Brussels has drawn a firm line under years of patchy oversight for virtual private networks. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute released a new framework that demands every VPN sold across the bloc meet auditable tests for encryption strength, key handling and vulnerability response. Published just yesterday, the draft arrives at a moment when consumers and businesses alike question the real protection these tools deliver.

How Demand Gen Is Forcing PPC Teams to Master Interest Before Intent

Paid search built an entire industry on a simple promise. Give Google a keyword, and it delivers a user with a question already formed. The ad answers. The sale follows. That model delivered predictable efficiency for years.
But something shifted. Google’s Demand Gen campaigns now demand advertisers create the very questions they once answered. No longer does the user type a clear need. The platform must spark curiosity first. Then shape it. Then hand it off to lower-funnel tactics that close.