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Global app downloads were down, but consumer spending was up to nearly $156B in 2025.

As Netflix tries to take down YouTube’s dominance in the podcast space, it’s getting new originals with Pete Davidson and Michael Irvin.

The Trends Explore page for users to analyze search interest just got a major upgrade. It now uses Gemini to identify and compare relevant trends.

“We want musicians to keep making music, and for fans to have confidence that the music they find on Bandcamp was created by humans,” the company said.

Skild AI, which is building general-purpose robotic software, just raised a $1.4 billion funding round led by SoftBank.

Type One Energy has raised more than $160 million from investors to date. The new funding will help the company further refine its stellarator technology.

The company used an AI-native platform to help companies fight threats.

Shipping tech company Bluspark left internal plaintext passwords, including those of executives, exposed to the internet, at a time when hacks in the shipping industry are on the rise.

VoiceRun, a startup that creates voice agents, raised $5.5 million in a round led by FlyBridge.

Meta is laying off 10% of staff in its Reality Labs division, which is core to developing the company’s VR and metaverse products.