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The next big battlefield for newsletter platforms is AI chatbots.In a competitive market, platforms like Beehiiv, Substack, and Ghost have been duking it out to win over creators with new features like social feeds, videos, and podcasting. Ultimately, the platform that most seamlessly integrates with writers’ daily workflows may win the day. Lately, that means finding ways to work with ChatGPT and Claude.Beehiiv exclusively told Business Insider that it’s rolling out a new feature on Tuesday for paid users that allows them to use chatbots to automate publishing tasks like adding meta descriptions to images, tagging posts, and tweaking the…

There’s a new entrant in the race to build a general-purpose robot, and it does not look human.Robotics startup Genesis AI unveiled Eno on Tuesday, a wheeled robot with two arms, but instead of legs, it has a three-panel body that can adjust its height and fold down when not in use.Zhou Xian, CEO of Genesis AI, said the company plans to produce dozens of robots by the end of the year and begin small-scale customer deployments. Eno will first roll out with manufacturers, logistics companies, and laboratories. Service industry customers will follow, and the robot will eventually be available…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is giving Indiana more flexibility over how it decides to spend its federal grant money, the third state to receive such exemptions from the Education Department as it seeks to “return education to the states.” Indiana’s plan will consolidate $50 million in federal money from five funding streams into one with fewer spending restrictions, similar to exemptions over federal spending granted to Iowa and Louisiana earlier this year. State officials said the waiver would reduce the costs associated with compliance and documentation by about $20 million. Education Secretary Linda McMahon approved the state’s plan…

SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor in a $60 billion stock deal, just a few days after the space company’s historic IPO and less than two months after announcing a tie-up between the two. The deal is meant to help SpaceX’s AI division — built around Elon Musk’s AI company xAI, which SpaceX merged with earlier this year — catch up to the major AI labs. Despite being a centerpiece of its IPO promises, SpaceX’s AI division has been in the midst of a restructuring after running into repeated controversies, like allowing users to generate non-consensual deepfakes…

SpaceX has announced its first major acquisition after a record-breaking IPO.Elon Musk’s rocket company said on Tuesday that it is buying the AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, after the two companies struck a deal earlier this year.The deal caps Cursor’s rapid ascent to become one of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing startups and is a validation of the soaring interest in AI-assisted coding.This week, Business Insider profiled Michael Truell, the 25-year-old Cursor cofounder and CEO, who told employees the potential merger with SpaceX was “a big risk, or a big bet, that we’re making.” Meet Michael Truell, the 25-year-old Cursor…

More than three and a half years after ChatGPT’s initial release, AI assistants are now used by millions of people worldwide, and the competitive landscape is changing fast. While OpenAI’s chatbot is still the most popular assistant globally, its market share has dipped below 50% for the first time as users are migrating between different assistants like Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and xAI’s Grok, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower’s State of AI Report for 2026. ChatGPT’s growth has been impressive. It became the fastest app ever to reach 1 billion monthly users, as Sensor Tower reported this month. Notably,…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with David Selinger, the 48-year-old CEO of Deep Sentinel, based in Pleasanton, California. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I went to Stanford but didn’t finish my degree, so I went back in 2000 to finish. In 2002, I got hired at Amazon through on-campus interviews while still in college.I worked at Dutch Bros, now a publicly traded coffee company, then. I was running their tech side.I didn’t initially want to work at Amazon, but I considered it because I was bored. I had a great job at Dutch Bros, worked very…

Sometimes, the US government’s concerns that a powerful new tech product could fall into the wrong hands can be a marketing opportunity. Just look at Steve Jobs and Apple back in 1999.In August of that year, Jobs, who was then Apple’s interim-CEO, took the stage to unveil the company’s new desktop “supercomputer”: the Power Mac G4. Jobs called it “the most powerful personal computer ever brought to market,” CBS News reported at the time.The only issue was all that computing power technically meant that the device crossed the threshold that would trigger US export controls limiting which countries Apple could…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince George will attend Eton College this fall, following in the footsteps of his father, Prince William, Kensington Palace said Tuesday.Speculation had raged for months about where the second in line to the throne would continue his education, with some observers predicting he would choose Marlborough College, the institution attended by his mother, Princess Catherine.“Kensington Palace can confirm that Prince George will attend Eton College from this September,” the palace said.Eton, a boarding school founded in 1440 by King Henry VI, prides itself on educating Britain’s future leaders, including former Prime Ministers Robert Walpole, David Cameron…

The next wave of AI needs your photos, receipts, and emails to get smarter. One startup wants to help you get paid for it, and it’s on a corporate shopping spree.AI training startup Mode Inc has acquired two consumer applications, bringing its total buyouts in the past year to seven.The company bought Trimbox, an inbox management app, and QR Code Reader, a code scanning app.”We’re not really focused on just going after the Mechanical Turk or the Outlier/Scale AI gig workers,” Mode Inc CEO Dan Novaes told Business Insider, naming pay-per-gig contracting sites. “It’s really about everyday consumers and doing…