SCUF Built a PS5 Controller for People With Extra Fingers

Scuf's new Omega packs 28 inputs and real competitive appeal into a $220 PS5 controller that feels both absurdly niche and annoyingly convincing.

The AI Therapy App Nobody Wanted Now Handles All of Amazon Ring's Calls

Vapi started as an AI therapy bot nobody wanted. It just beat 40 rivals for Amazon Ring's calls and hit a $500M valuation. The feelings were always infrastructure.

JBL Put a Tiny Touchscreen on Earbuds and I Kind of Love It

JBL’s Live 4 earbuds add better ANC and a smarter screen case. It’s a mildly ridiculous idea that keeps becoming annoyingly practical.

Circle Built an Agent Wallet So USDC Can Charge the Bots

Circle's Agent Stack turns USDC into payment middleware for bots, APIs, and micropayments, showing where fintech wants the next checkout button to live.

OpenAI Launched a Consulting Firm. The AI Was Not Consulted.

OpenAI built the AI. Now they've built a consulting firm to explain it. They named it 'the OpenAI Deployment Company.' McKinsey signed on.

Wispr Raised $260 Million to Let You Talk to Your Computer. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Did This in 1997.

An AI dictation startup is in talks to raise $260M at a $2B valuation. Your Mac has had this built in for free since 2012. Let's discuss.

Do AI Agents Actually Make Money in 2026? Or Is It Just Mac Minis and Vibes?

Updated May 12: the Mac Mini fantasy is still shaky, but Stripe, AWS, Microsoft, Intercom, MongoDB, and GitHub now show early agent-money signals.

OpenAI Is Sharing Its Cyber Weapon With Europe—and Would Like a Gold Star for Not Being Anthropic

Sam Altman called Anthropic’s AI secrecy “fear-based marketing.” Then he did the same thing. Now OpenAI wants credit for being the generous one.

This Week in Snark: Musk's Evil Detector, Twin AI Joint Ventures, and the $100B Emoji Intervention

Elon Musk's evil detector had a confusing week. OpenAI and Anthropic independently invented the same company. And GPT-5.5's headline feature is fewer 🚀s. Welcome to May.

Lumia Turns Earrings Into a Blood-Flow Dashboard for Your Head

Lumia 2 hides blood-flow tracking inside an earring back and somehow makes brain-fog telemetry look like jewelry.

Balcony Raised $14 Million to Audit America’s House Paperwork

Balcony thinks county deeds, tax rolls, and title records should stop behaving like separate centuries. Weirdly niche, surprisingly useful, and kind of charming.

LTVX.ai Turns Failed Checkouts Into Revenue and a Whole New Relationship

LTVX.ai says declined cards are not dead sales, just under-monetized feelings. The pitch is practical, slightly aggressive, and much smarter than another checkout widget.