Launch
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.
Deep Dive
Age verification is moving from sketchy pop-ups to app stores, AI face scans, and privacy fights, remaking how the web decides who gets in.
Gaming
Valve's new Steam Controller looks legitimately smart. Its reservation queue also asks whether you've earned the right to buy one.
Silicon Valley
Lime filed for IPO today. The e-scooter startup still posts net losses, officially answers to “Neutron Holdings,” and earns 14% of its revenue from the same company that funds it. Bullish!
Fintech
The FCA's PayPal wallet probe spotlights who controls checkout when cards, bank accounts, and digital wallets all want to be the front door.
Guides
A snark-filled guide to 30 years of tech buzzwords—from “synergy” to “AI-powered”—and how they shaped (and warped) modern marketing.
Launch
Google's $99 Fitbit Air ditches the screen, keeps the surveillance, and somehow makes AI health coaching feel more practical than performative.
AI
Addepar's new ADX pitch is simple: before finance gets agentic, someone has to stop the spreadsheet feuds. Boring? Yes. Useful? Uncomfortably so.
Startups
Balcony thinks county land records should behave less like mildew-soaked filing cabinets and more like infrastructure. The pitch is blockchain-coded, but the pain point is real.
Startups
The dog-named insurance unicorn built to protect startups from themselves just hit a $1.3B valuation. Then it launched 34 ETFs. Before dinner.
Boston Tech
Roche is buying Boston-based PathAI for $750M upfront plus milestones, and yes, this is exactly the kind of hard-tech, health-AI win Boston should be insufferably proud of.
Fintech
SoFi has started minting SoFiUSD, revealing a bigger ambition: turn a national bank, a stablecoin, and Mastercard rails into one settlement stack.