06 May 2026
A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
Meta is beefing up its age-verification mechanisms with an AI system that analyzes images and videos on Instagram and Facebook for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure, to identify and delete accounts of users under the age of 13.
06 May 2026
Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A
Business insurance startup Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion, the startup’s co-founder Nico Laqua said on LinkedIn.
06 May 2026
Oil prices sink and stocks leap worldwide on hopes for a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz
Oil prices sank Wednesday, and stock markets rallied worldwide with hopes that the United States and Iran are nearing a deal to allow ships to deliver crude from the Persian Gulf once again to their customers.
06 May 2026
Advanced AI holds promise for high-stakes healthcare, studies show
A pair of recent studies shows big potential for artificial intelligence to detect and diagnose some particularly challenging healthcare conditions.
06 May 2026
Stock Market Today (LIVE): Visa Bets Big on Agentic Commerce; Nvidia Invests $2.7 Billion in Corning
📌 Top story -- scroll down for more updates Upstart Grows Fast, Spends Faster, and Margins Take a Hit 2:48 pm — UPST -8.50% Upstart ( UPST 8.44% ) delivered a blowout top line — $308.2 million in Q1 revenue, up 44%, crushing estimates. Loan originations surged 61% to $3.4 billion. The catch? Sales and marketing costs
06 May 2026
Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows
Genesis AI, a Khosla-backed robotics startup, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, featuring advanced robotic hands designed in-house. The company, which raised a $105 million seed round, has shifted to a full-stack approach to improve model intelligence and real-world applicability.
06 May 2026
A Proposed Billionaire Tax Exposes The Dual-Share Racket: Justin Fox
An underappreciated aspect of the one-time 5% billionaire wealth tax likely to go before California voters in November is that for several of the state’s most prominent billionaires, the rate might be far higher than 5%.
06 May 2026
Genesis AI introduces GENE-26.5 model for more dexterous robot manipulation
Genesis AI today unveiled GENE-26.5, a model enabling robots to perform complex, human-level physical manipulation tasks such as cooking, lab experiments, and piano playing.
06 May 2026
MacBook Neo Won’t Let Chromebooks Or Windows Laptops Take A Breather This Year As Apple Eyes Ambitious 10 Million Production Goal
A chip supply deficit is a situation that no company wants to face, especially when it hinders a popular product’s supply. Apple has witnessed tremendous success with the MacBook Neo launch, which starts from $599, and is reportedly facing A18 Pro chip supply issues earlier.
