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Today’s highlights
- Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT — 2026-08-12
- After a former lead writer claimed Saber “replaced me with ChatGPT,” CEO Matthew Karch now claims, “Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI,” for the Rideshare “Stimulator” game announced last month,
- Xbox Elite 3 prototype pad leaks with tiny built-in screen — 2026-08-11
- Did a prototype Microsoft gamepad fall off the back of a truck? We can’t say, but a Redditor has legit-looking photos of a prototype Xbox controller that’s almost certainly the Xbox Elite Series 3. Incredibly, they claim
- Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni reportedly knew Phia was ‘cookie stuffing’ for months — 2026-08-11
- Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is once again under fire for its alleged business practices.
- Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last — 2026-08-11
- The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.
- An FCC filing points to new Sonos headphones coming soon — 2026-08-11
- It looks like we’ll be getting a successor to the Sonos Ace headphones sometime this fall, which was hinted at by CEO Tom Conrad during a third quarter earnings call. As reported by What Hi-Fi?, an FCC filing by Sonos, I
- Made by Google 2026: all the Pixel news and announcements — 2026-08-11
- Google is gearing up to reveal a bunch of new Pixel devices on August 12th. A series of leaks leading up to the event suggest that the Pixel 11 lineup will come in an array of colors, with signs pointing to a built-in li
- Uber surprised robotics company Serve by selling its entire stake — 2026-08-11
- The divestiture comes as the two once-tight companies have started to diverge on the business side.
- ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users — 2026-08-11
- For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google’s fastest-growing product ever. A billion us