Profound raised $180m at a $1.8bn valuation to sell brands visibility in AI answers
Profound raised $180m at a $1.8bn valuation to sell brands visibility in AI answers

Profound, an enterprise-grade marketing platform built for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), has raised $180M in a Series D co-led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, valuing the two-year-old New York company at $1.8bn, Bloomberg reports. The price…

Acemagic’s retro Nintendo-style mini PC with powerful Ryzen 7 performance drops $100 as Amazon launches its Early Prime Day sale
Acemagic’s retro Nintendo-style mini PC with powerful Ryzen 7 performance drops $100 as Amazon launches its Early Prime Day sale

The retro Acemagic X3 mini PC packs Ryzen 7 power and USB4 support behind its NES-like console styling. And it’s on sale in Amazon’s Early Prime Day deals.

Apple’s Foldable iPhone Was The Headline. AI Was The Story.

Apple’s foldable iPhone grabbed headlines, but its privacy-first AI features may better define how the company makes AI useful in everyday life.

How Better Data Helps AI Find Its Rhythm

As AI-generated music moves into advertising and branded content, richer metadata can help models interpret creative briefs and deliver more usable commercial outputs.

What 25 Years Of Platform Shifts Can Teach Leaders About Surviving AI

When companies struggle through a tech transition, the post-mortem usually focuses on the wrong things.

Sony’s new 400mm and 600mm super-telephoto primes make light work of a heavy hobby — here are my favorite wildlife photos I shot with the pair
Sony’s new 400mm and 600mm super-telephoto primes make light work of a heavy hobby — here are my favorite wildlife photos I shot with the pair

Sony has unveiled two super-telephoto E-mount prime lenses, the FE 400mm F4.5 GM OSS and FE 600mm F6.3 GM OSS, and they’re the lightest of their kind — I’ve tested them both.

4 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Last day to exhibit at Disrupt is Sept 18. 4 days left. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators and tech leaders October 13–15.

NASA’s Webb Reveals Dynamic Panorama of Star Formation
NASA’s Webb Reveals Dynamic Panorama of Star Formation

This starry view of the nearby star-forming region IC 348 is one of the largest images released to date from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Using Webb, astronomers searched IC 348 for brown dwarfs, which are less massive than the smallest stars. The researchers discovered brown dwarfs just twice the mass of Jupiter, bringing the […]

Curiosity rover spots odd ‘footprints’ on Mars | Space photo of the day for Sept. 15, 2026
Curiosity rover spots odd ‘footprints’ on Mars | Space photo of the day for Sept. 15, 2026

“Both of our workspaces this week contained features unlike quite anything we have seen in the past.”

On this day in space! Sept. 15, 1968: Russian tortoises (& other critters) launch around the moon on Zond 5 spacecraft in wild first circumlunar flight
On this day in space! Sept. 15, 1968: Russian tortoises (& other critters) launch around the moon on Zond 5 spacecraft in wild first circumlunar flight

On Sept. 15, 1968, the Soviet Union launched the Zond 5 spacecraft carrying tortoises and more on a mission to loop around the moon and return to Earth. Here’s why it mattered.