Corridor, a startup co-founded by former Scale AI product lead Jackson Wagner along with Eric Qian, Nikhil Aggarwal, and Jason Dong, has raised a $25 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures. The company pairs human advisors with AI agents to serve small businesses seeking health benefits, an area it says larger brokerages neglect due to low commissions relative to the administrative workload involved. Corridor's AI handles tasks such as verifying network coverage, scheduling appointments, and relaying updated insurance details to providers.
GM introduced a redesigned software interface for its upcoming Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks that refreshes the look of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Several outlets mistakenly reported this as GM reversing its 2023 decision to drop phone mirroring, but that removal only ever applied to GM's electric vehicles, not its gas-powered lineup.
Reports suggest Apple's next major iPhone Pro overhaul, timed to the device's 20th anniversary, will bring more dramatic design changes than the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro lineup. The rumored foldable iPhone Duo is expected to arrive first, but industry chatter points to the following year's Pro model as the more significant leap.
A growing number of TikTok creators are being paid by brands to produce content that mimics organic user videos while hiding its promotional nature, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. Creators like Ceci Beck and Brooks Langford say they earn between $1,000 and $6,000 a month from this work, and one campaign manager reportedly told a creator to deny that a video was sponsored when asked directly.
Paramount reached a settlement with a coalition of state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America that had sought to block its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The agreement includes commitments to produce more than 30 films annually and expand U.S.-based film production, addressing concerns raised about jobs and industry health.
Apple's iOS 27 update introduces the revamped Siri AI experience to CarPlay, giving drivers a ChatGPT-like conversational assistant that remembers context and syncs chat history with the iPhone's Siri app. The update also lets developers build dedicated video-browsing apps for CarPlay screens, though only in cars whose automakers opt into the feature, alongside minor interface tweaks like a new MiniPlayer for media apps.
George Lucas and Mellody Hobson unveiled the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art to press and invited guests in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, with a public opening set for September 22. The five-story, MAD Architects-designed building cost a reported $1 billion and houses roughly 1,300 objects across 33 galleries totaling 100,000 square feet, spanning cave paintings to comics and Star Wars-related material.
Cloudflare announced that Python Workers, the runtime it introduced two years ago to run Python code on its edge network, is now generally available. Developers can use existing Python code and popular frameworks like FastAPI, Django, and Flask, and connect them to Cloudflare services such as Workers AI, R2, D1, Hyperdrive, Durable Objects, Queues, and Workflows.
Early reviews of Apple's upcoming M5 Ultra Mac Studio, arriving alongside the M6 Mac mini, highlight its strength for running AI models locally without cloud costs. MacStories' Federico Viticci tested the 256GB configuration for several days, comparing it against the previous M3 Ultra model and a high-end gaming PC, and found it dramatically changed his approach to running local AI agents and assistants.
Newegg is selling a 32GB (2x16GB) V-Color Manta XSky DDR5-6000 CL30 memory kit for $429 with promo code TEF366, undercutting comparable kits by roughly $70. A black variant, the Manta XFinity, is also available for $439 with code TEF364.
USB-A is the original rectangular USB connector from the USB 1 standard, designed with a one-way host-to-device connection so it only fits one way and can't be flipped freely. USB-C is the newer, smaller, reversible connector that replaced older peripheral formats like USB-B, Mini-USB and Micro-USB, especially on modern mobile devices.
Portland-based developer and writer Jared White created a website where programmers can publicly sign their names to affirm they still write software manually, without relying on AI code generation tools. The list has already drawn dozens of signatories from independent developers and freelancers around the world. White also runs a web studio, Whitefusion, that markets itself to clients seeking human-crafted development work.
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