MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.
OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.
It sure looks like hackers breached a major ID card verification service
An identity theft search site claimed to have more than 150 million driver's license photos stolen from an ID verification service. The crime site has now shut down.
Shopline Taps Splitit for Card-Linked Installment Payments
Commerce Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform Shopline has chosen Spilit as its card-linked installment payments partner, according to a Wednesday (Sept.…
2) press release.
The collaboration will embed Splitit’s technology into the Shopline pl…
“The partnership addresses one of the most significant opportunities i…
Amazon Adds Alexa Scam Protection as Consumer Fraud Losses Rise
Amazon announced Wednesday (Sept.2) that it is giving consumers a new way to fight back against one of scammers’ most effective weapons, impersonation.…
The company is adding a feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify …
Starting in the U.
, this feature could offer a new line of defense against scams that ex…
Crypto Groups Push SEC for Tailored Rules on Novel ETFs
Groups including The Crypto Council for Innovation, Grayscale, and a16z urged the regulator to preserve existing fund classifications and streamline reviews for new exchange-traded products.
X shifts US creator payouts from Stripe to X Money
X says U.S. creator payouts will now be handled through its X Money payments service, a change that appears to replace the previous Stripe-powered payout system.
US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material
"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally," the brief reads.