Internet/e-commerce

Sources: Uber and Rapido discussed merging their India ride-hailing operations in May; talks collapsed after disagreements over the proposed deal's structure (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-8-15 India Uber

Filing: Nvidia has a nearly $21B stake in SpaceX and a $30B stake in Intel; Nvidia invested as much as $2B in xAI in 2025 and $5B in Intel (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-15 Intel Nvidia SpaceX

Amazon adds a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits against it, after removing a similar clause in 2021 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-15 Amazon

Judge Orders Google To Make Rival App Store Installs Easier (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15 Google

Google adds a toggle in Gemini and Flow to remove visible watermarks from AI-generated images, videos, and music; SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata remain (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-15 Google AI

In Q2, “other income”, mostly from investment gains, at Amazon and Alphabet totaled ~$121B after taxes and made up 66% and 71%, respectively, of profits (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-15 Amazon Tax Alphabet

The Modern Attack Chain: Rethinking Google Workspace Security in the Age of AI (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-15 Google AI

Epic v. Google: in a compliance hearing, a judge orders Google to remove “anticompetitive friction” for installing third-party app stores from its Play Store (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-14 Google

Pony AI plans to deploy 2K+ robotaxis across Europe in partnership with Uber and add four more European cities, after Zagreb, with a later Middle East expansion (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-14 Europe Uber AI

Microsoft Retreats In China (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-14 China Microsoft

Reddit will join the S&P 500 on August 18, becoming only the second pure-play social media company in the index after Meta; RDDT jumps 10%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-14 Reddit

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash Targets Coding and Agents With a 50% Price Cut (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-14 Google

Microsoft Is Combining Its Copilot Apps Ahead of a 'Super App' (slashdot.org)
2026-8-14 Microsoft

Netflix is closing game studios Night School Studio, which it acquired in 2021, and Moonloot, and is also cutting jobs from its internal games team (www.gamefile.news)
2026-8-14 Netflix

Amazon Will Train On Twitch Streamers' Content By Default, Unless They Opt Out (games.slashdot.org)
2026-8-14 Amazon

Microsoft patches LegacyHive Windows zero-day vulnerability (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14 Microsoft

Google unveils Gemini 3.7 Flash, its “most intelligent workhorse model” for coding and agents, pricing it at $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens at launch (blog.google)
2026-8-14 Google

Tech hardware companies report the highest US CBP tariff refunds at $2.5B across six companies, including $2.2B in refunds to Apple alone; Amazon received $640M (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-14 Amazon Apple

Microsoft begins merging its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single app, with a mobile and web rollout in mid-August and desktop in mid-September (www.geekwire.com)
2026-8-13 Microsoft Mobile

Filings and sources: Microsoft shuttered 15+ branch offices and joint ventures in China in the past five years, amid China's push for domestic software (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-13 China Microsoft

Sources: former Google exec Jeff Dean is in talks for $1B in funding at a ~$10B valuation for his new science and engineering-focused AI startup, Discovery Loop (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-13 Google Startup AI

Twitch says it intends to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon's generative AI models and tells creators how to opt out (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-13 Amazon AI

A livestream of the Made by Google 2026 event hosted by Trevor Noah (www.youtube.com)
2026-8-13 Google

Sources detail moves behind Google's AI reshuffle; Sergey Brin urged key staff to go all in on Gemini, and some teams shifted from DeepMind to corporate Google (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-13 Google AI

The Pixel Tag Is Google's Answer To the AirTag (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-13 Google

Google Unveils Pixel 11 Lineup (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-13 Google

Google's Pixel 11 introduces Camera Looks, a total rethink of how the camera captures and styles an image, as users seek “more authentic or traditional” photos (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-13 Google

Google says the Pixel Buds Pro 2 will get new features, including dynamic ANC and sleep sync, via a software update in September, and adds a new Olive color (9to5google.com)
2026-8-13 Google

Google says Android's AirDrop-like Quick Share will now let some devices exchange files and contact info when tapped together, starting with Pixel 6 and newer (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-13 Android Google

Google is introducing an insulin-resistance trend feature that uses AI, accelerometer, and other sensors, launching first on the Watch 5 and Fitbit devices (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-13 Google AI

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