State AGs sue to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger - Engadget
A dozen attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit to stop the merger, which the Department of Justice approved in June.
By Kris Holt
Updated: July 13, 2026 1:50 pm EST
Investors send General Fusion soaring in debut as first publicly traded fusion company
General Fusion began trading on the Nasdaq today under the ticker GFUZ, becoming the first publicly listed fusion power company, beating competitor and Trump-backed TAE Technologies by several months.
And investors seemed to want in. The stock rallied as trading began Monday and is now up 40% from $12.85 as of 12:50 p.m. ET.
Uber’s robotaxi lobbying effort puts it on a collision course with Waymo
A proposed bill that would allow autonomous vehicles to operate in Washington, D.C. has become a test case for Uber’s broader robotaxi strategy. Instead of simply partnering with, and investing in, robotaxi developers, Uber is also trying to shape the rules that govern them, an effort that puts it in direct opposition with its business partner, Waymo.
Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’
In March, Bluesky’s longtime CEO, Jay Graber, stepped down from that role to become its chief innovation officer. Graber was immediately succeeded by Toni Schneider, the founding CEO of Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress and Tumblr.
Mamdani announces new Click-to-Cancel rule for New York City - Engadget
The rule revives a proposed FTC protection that was abandoned last year.
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If you live in New York city, cancelling subscriptions should get a lot easier starting October 1. New York City Mayor Mamdani has announced a new "Click-to-Cancel" rule, enforced by the city's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, that requires companies to provide "simple, straightforward subscription cancellation." As the name suggests, the rule forbids companies from letting you breezily click on a few boxes to sign up online, while requiring you to navigate a byzantine network of phone calls and carrier pigeons to unsubscribe. Besides making good on campaign promises, the new rule also revives one of the Federal Trade Commission's proposed protections under former FTC Chair Lina Khan.
Metal balls from space are popping up on Australia's beaches - Engadget
Sadly, aliens weren't involved.
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The Schwartz is strong with a small Australian beach town that's having its own "space balls" moment. Six metallic spheres, each roughly twice the size of a basketball, washed ashore over the weekend on Forrest Beach in Queensland. The appearance of the mysterious objects has led to wild theories, UFO jokes and tongue-in-cheek alien promotions from local shops. Authorities, though, have a much more mundane explanation: space junk.
Dumb Co dared me to trade my iPhone for a hacked flip phone
When Lydia Peabody saw her friend pull out a flip phone at a party last year, she burst out laughing.
“I was like, ‘Girl, what are you doing with that thing? That has to be a joke!’” Peabody told TechCrunch. But it wasn’t just a prop — her friend was participating in Month Offline, a community challenge in which a small cohort of people exchange their smartphones for flip phones.
The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”
Researchers at the company built a tool called the Jacobian lens (or J-lens) and used it to uncover a hidden area, which they named the J-space, inside its flagship LLM, Claude.
Don’t want to invest in Elon Musk? Two new ETFs explicitly exclude him
In the lead up to the SpaceX IPO, there were dozens of stories about early employees and investors who stood to make millions of dollars for betting on, or working for, Elon Musk.
NHTSA calls out autonomous cars for interfering with first responders - Engadget
The agency is giving autonomous vehicle makers until the end of July to figure out a solution.
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