Elon Musk's company town already has a volunteer fire department, and is forming a Starbase Police Department. Now it wants its own court, too. Source

Reporter Zoë Bernard spent months talking to 51 people (31 of them gay men) to map out a subculture that's been an open secret in Silicon Valley for years: gay men, at the upper echelons of tech, quietly raising up their own networks the way powerful people have always done. Source

The robots will be unloading totes full of auto parts from an automated warehouse tugger. Source

YouTube is testing conversational AI on smart TVs, allowing viewers to ask the assistant questions related to the video they're watching on the big screen. Source

The CEOs of Read AI and Lucidya told TechCrunch at Web Summit Qatar that they see AI tools replacing tasks, rather than workers. Source

Redwood Materials says its new energy storage business is the fastest growing unit within the company. Source

Google said it prevented 1.75 million bad apps from going live on Google Play during 2025, a figure that's down from previous years. Source