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Mastodon’s creator, Eugen Rochko, is stepping down as CEO of the open source, decentralized social network and X rival, as part of the organization’s transition to a non-profit structure, announced at the beginning of the year. The change is Mastodon’s most significant leadership overhaul to date, and one designed to ensure Mastodon’s longevity. As part of the organization’s restructuring, Mastodon will be governed by a board of directors, which today includes Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Karien Bezuidenhout, Esra’a Al Shafei, Mastodon Community Director Hannah Aubry (who will be stepping down), and Felix Hlatky, who will be taking the role of…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Amazon’s Zoox will start giving free robotaxi rides through parts of San Francisco as it accelerates its attempt to challenge Waymo’s early lead in the race to transport passengers in self-driving vehicles.The expansion announced Tuesday will be confined to a few major San Francisco neighborhoods and limited to people who signed up on a waiting list to ride in Zoox’s gondola-shaped robotaxis, which have no steering wheel. The San Francisco launch comes less than three months after the Amazon-owned robotaxi company launched its first ride-hailing service along the Las Vegas strip.But Zoox still doesn’t charge people…

A new Bain & Company report says many organisations in Southeast Asia are still stuck in early product testing because they treat AI as a set of tools rather than a change in how the business works. In The Southeast Asia CEO’s Guide to AI Transformation, the authors say leaders should first look at how AI could reshape their industry and revenue plans, then put money into areas where they expect clear and measurable results.The region’s mix of cultures, income levels, and market sizes makes AI adoption harder than in places with more uniform conditions. People shop and behave differently…

Data intelligence company Databricks is reportedly already in talks to raise fresh capital, just a few months after its last fundraise. Databricks is holding conversations to raise a funding round that values the company at a minimum of $130 billion, according to reporting from The Information. The company hasn’t signed a term sheet yet, the report added. That would prove a valuation bump of at least 30% over the $100 billion price tag Databricks achieved in its $1 billion Series J funding round in August. At the time, Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi told TechCrunch that the company raised…

For technology adopters looking for the next big thing, “agentic AI” is the future. At least, that’s what the marketing pitches and tech industry T-shirts say.What makes an artificial intelligence product “agentic” depends on who’s selling it. But the promise is usually that it’s a step beyond today’s generative AI chatbots.Chatbots, however useful, are all talk and no action. They can answer questions, retrieve and summarize information, write papers and generate images, music, video and lines of code. AI agents, by contrast, are supposed to be able to take actions autonomously on a person’s behalf. But if you’re confused, you’re…

Over half of us now use AI to search the web, yet the stubbornly low data accuracy of common tools creates new business risks.While generative AI (GenAI) offers undeniable efficiency gains, a new investigation highlights a disparity between user trust and technical accuracy that poses specific risks to corporate compliance, legal standing, and financial planning.For the C-suite, the adoption of these tools represents a classic ‘shadow IT’ challenge. According to a survey of 4,189 UK adults conducted in September 2025, around a third of users believe AI is already more important to them than standard web searching. If employees trust…

Person’s handing hold an iPhone displaying a Cloudflare Error while attempting to access a webpage, during an outage of the Cloudflare service, Lafayette, California, November 18, 2025. Smith Collection/gado | Archive Photos | Getty ImagesInternet infrastructure company Cloudflare was hit by an outage on Tuesday, knocking several major websites offline for global users.Many sites came back online within a few hours. In an update to its status page around 9:57 a.m. ET, Cloudflare said it had implemented a fix to resolve the issues, though it noted some users may still experience issues accessing its online dashboard. “We are continuing to…

Following a spate of lawsuits and investigations over its child safety systems, Roblox is going to implement mandatory facial verification for all users who want to access communication features, starting in January. The platform is also introducing age-based chat, meaning users can only communicate with others in a similar age group. Starting Tuesday, users can voluntarily verify their age to secure their access to communication features. In the first week of December, Roblox will begin enforcing the age-check requirement in select markets, including Australia, the Netherlands and New Zealand. From January, all users around the world will be required to…

Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it is deploying a fix for an issue that caused global outages for ChatGPT, social media platform X, transit infrastructure and other prominent internet services.Cloudflare said on its status page earlier Tuesday that it identified an issue that was impacting multiple customers. There were reports of widespread 500 errors as well as Cloudflare Dashboard and API failing.In the process of remediating the issue, Cloudflare said it had to temporarily disable certain services for United Kingdom users.“We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users…

A Zoox autonomous robotaxi in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesZoox on Tuesday began allowing select San Francisco users to hail its driverless vehicles, pitting the Amazon-owned robotaxi service against Alphabet’s Waymo in the same market for the first time.Riders can sign up to join the “Zoox Explorers” program to take free rides in the company’s box-shaped vehicles in certain San Francisco neighborhoods, including SoMa and the Mission and Design districts, the company said.Zoox will take users off the waitlist depending on their location and as it adds more…