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Google's new AI Mode takes Search's real-time information access and combines it with generative AI capabilities to create an AI search engine experience. It is designed to make it easier for users to plan vacations, shopping trips, or learn more about any topic. Google Labs users in the US can now access AI Mode without a waitlist. Feedback on the tool has so far been positive.

Epic Games Store's new webshops feature allows developers to open webshops to offer players out-of-app purchases to circumvent fees from Apple and Google. The company will not take a cut from the first $1 million each game earns annually starting in June. Epic is bringing Fortnite back to the iOS App Store - it will incentivize users to buy digital goods through Epic directly with cheaper prices.

Aurora Innovation is the first company to deploy driverless, heavy-duty trucks for commercial use on public roads in the US. The company began running freight this week between Dallas and Houston and has completed 1,200 miles in a single self-driving truck without a driver so far. It plans to build more trucks and expand to El Paso and Phoenix by the end of the year. The company is working with Volvo Trucks and Paccar to develop self-driving trucks for high-volume manufacturing, with plans for a launch in 2027 or earlier.

Aetherflux is a company that aims to harvest solar power in space and beam it back to Earth via laser. It plans to launch a demonstration of its technology in 2026. A solar farm in space would receive sunlight all the time, enabling it to harness more power than on Earth. Aetherflux plans to use infrared lasers to send solar energy from an array of small satellites to a series of small ground stations. The US military might be the first recipient of Aetherflux's space-based power, but the company wants to be a commercially viable operation that can provide clean, affordable power to Americans everywhere.

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Redis 8 is now generally available. It has many new features and more than 30 performance improvements. The release adds eight more data structures and five probabilistic structures to help developers solve their current use cases better and build for the next generation of fast and real-time apps. It comes with a new license (AGPLv3) that makes Redis open source again.

Hyperparam addresses the lack of a user-friendly, scalable UI for exploring and curating massive datasets in the machine learning ecosystem through a suite of open-source tools that tackle different aspects of data curation. It aims to empower ML practitioners to create the best training datasets for the best models. The tools include Hyparquet, a lightweight, pure-JS library for reading Apache Parquet files directly in the browser; Hyparquet-Writer, which provides a way to write or export data to Parquet format in JavaScript; HighTable, a React-based virtualized table component for viewing extremely large tables in the browser; and Icebird, which extends Hyperparam's reach into data stored in Apache Iceberg format.

Oxide struggled to hire four years ago, so it published a blog explaining the company's approach to compensation. The blog got a lot of attention, both positive and negative, and it resulted in a surge of new people interested in working at the company. The company now has over three times the employees it previously had and a shipping product. This article looks at the lessons the company has learned over the few years of working with its compensation model, which has been essential for building a mission-focused team.

Apple VP of Finance Alex Roman allegedly lied to the court to maintain the belief that evidence of internal discussions about a 27% commission fee on some purchases linked to the App Store was real. The company had presented evidence of internal discussions that were tailor-made for litigation instead of what actually happened. Apple has also been accused of other deceptive practices. The accusations may result in punishment for Apple and Roman - the case has been referred to US attorneys, who will investigate whether to pursue criminal contempt proceedings.

Apple has been ordered to allow developers to add links to external purchase options with no fee effective immediately.

Developers can set up a link inside their apps to accept payments on iOS for digital goods using Stripe Checkout

Anthropic's new app connection feature, Integrations, builds on the company's MCP protocol to allow developers to create and host app services that enhance Claude's capabilities and let users discover and connect these services to Claude.

Using a single cache cluster shared across services means having one eviction policy and it makes monitoring and debugging harder.

WhatsApp's business platform accounted for a large portion of the $510 million in revenue brought in by Meta's family of apps.

Meta's Reality Labs posted a $4.2 billion operating loss in Q1 2025.