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Tarantulas. The creatures are the single oddest thing Shreya Nallapati, the co-founder and CEO of Memoa Vault, has seen customers take photos of and upload into the AI-driven platform that creates a record of a person or family’s physical valuables, heirlooms or collectibles. Far more often than arachnids or even other, less exotic pets, people…

Shares of Netflix Inc (Nasdaq: NFLX) are down more than 11% in premarket trading on Friday following an earnings report that came close to Wall Street’s expectations but also announced plans to reduce engagement transparency.  Released on Thursday, July 16, the streamer’s second-quarter earnings report revealed $12.56 billion in revenue, a 13% increase year-over-year (YOY)….

A decade ago, accepting card payments at a farmers market, food truck, or pop-up shop often meant investing in bulky hardware, worrying about battery life, and paying for ongoing technical support. Today, a small business owner can accept secure, contactless payments with nothing more than a smartphone. Tap-to-pay is doing more than speeding up checkout…

OpenAI confidentially filed IPO papers with the SEC yesterday, setting the stage for yet another massive tech company float later in the year. You can read OpenAI’s statement here. It’s very short. Here is the entire thing, verbatim: “We recently submitted a confidential S-1. We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it. We…

Chinese startup Moonshot AI has unveiled a new model it says closes the gap with leading U.S. offerings and surpasses OpenAI and Anthropic’s most capable systems on some benchmarks. Kimi K3 still trails Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 Sol on overall performance, the company said on Friday, but consistently outperformed other tested…