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  "entity": "IndexNews",
  "subtitle": "An eCorp Venture",
  "domain": "indexnews.com",
  "vertical": "AI & Agent Economy",
  "count": 18,
  "generated_at": "2026-08-17T17:16:38.408Z",
  "articles": [
    {
      "title": "The Analogue Pocket gets a Supreme makeover in red or gold",
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/games/981054/analogue-pocket-supreme-red-gold-fall-winter-2026-collection",
      "summary": "Analogue and Supreme are teaming up to release metallic versions of the Analogue Pocket handheld in red and gold as part of Supreme's fall / winter 2026 collection. Here's how they're described on Supreme's website: Metallic portable handheld multi-video-game-system. Unibody alum",
      "source": "theverge.com",
      "published": "2026-08-17T12:40:32-04:00",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/amazon-once-an-online-bookseller-is-destroying-rare-books-to-train-ai-models/",
      "summary": "Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.",
      "source": "techcrunch.com",
      "published": "Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:38:44 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Sonos finally added Live Activities controls for your iPhone lockscreen",
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/981008/sonos-mobile-ios-iphone-app-live-activities",
      "summary": "Sonos released an update to its mobile app that finally introduces support for iOS' Live Activities, giving iPhone users quick access to playback controls on their lockscreen. The added functionality is a \"much requested, anticipated, and needed feature,\" according to a post Sono",
      "source": "theverge.com",
      "published": "2026-08-17T12:38:35-04:00",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Trump’s dumb border wall",
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/report/980933/trump-border-wall-big-bend-arizona-cottonwood-tree-sit",
      "summary": "About 22 miles south of the former mining town of Patagonia, Arizona, down a winding, unpaved mountain road that passes cows grazing on open range, stands a cottonwood tree believed to be at least 200 years old. The \"grandmother\" tree, as some locals call it, is imperiled and alr",
      "source": "theverge.com",
      "published": "2026-08-17T12:30:00-04:00",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/groq-raises-350m-to-fuel-its-pivot-from-ai-chips-to-neocloud/",
      "summary": "Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.",
      "source": "techcrunch.com",
      "published": "Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:15:12 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/nvidia-investing-1-5b-in-softbank-data-center-developer-behind-openai-project/",
      "summary": "Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.",
      "source": "techcrunch.com",
      "published": "Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:16:24 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Apple ordered to stop scaring iPhone and iPad users away from third-party apps",
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/980977/apple-app-tracking-transparency-settlement-germany",
      "summary": "Apple's changing its rules for data collection consent prompts after Germany's Federal Cartel Office accused Apple of giving the prompts a design that favored its own apps. Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompts reportedly cost social media apps nearly $10 billion when they la",
      "source": "theverge.com",
      "published": "2026-08-17T11:10:25-04:00",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/terra-industries-closes-52m-seed-round-to-build-defense-infrastructure-for-the-global-south/",
      "summary": "African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.",
      "source": "techcrunch.com",
      "published": "Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:06:07 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/wordpress-com-targets-the-next-generation-of-web-creators-with-a-free-student-plan/",
      "summary": "WordPress.com Education lets teachers offer their students free domains, plugin support and professional website-building tools.",
      "source": "techcrunch.com",
      "published": "Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:56:00 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "WiiM’s capable HomePod-esque smart speaker is almost $50 off",
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/980916/wiim-sound-speaker-lite-airpods-max-2-deal-sale",
      "summary": "The smart speaker market is more or less dominated by major tech companies: Apple, Google, Sonos, and Amazon. But WiiM’s powerful 100W Sound smart speaker is an attractive alternative because it’s not locked down to play nicely with select music services. It supports over 20 serv",
      "source": "theverge.com",
      "published": "2026-08-17T10:35:25-04:00",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Uber partners with Zipline on Eats drone deliveries",
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/transportation/980912/uber-eats-zipline-drone-delivery-investment",
      "summary": "Uber is teaming up with drone company Zipline to start airborne takeout deliveries later this year, with the goal of reaching one million daily drone deliveries by 2029. Uber also said it was making a strategic investment in Zipline, a California-based company that has been orche",
      "source": "theverge.com",
      "published": "2026-08-17T10:24:35-04:00",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "It’s about ethics in journalism, with Ben Smith",
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/podcast/980759/ben-smith-semafor-ethics-journalism-ai-events-buzzfeed-media-news",
      "summary": "Today I’m talking to Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of Semafor. Everywhere you go, people say they don’t trust the media — and yet they’ve never consumed more of it. Audiences have moved on from legacy names in favor of Substacks and podcasts and TikTok news influencers that seem",
      "source": "theverge.com",
      "published": "2026-08-17T10:00:00-04:00",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Uber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/uber-adds-zipline-drones-to-its-eats-delivery-network/",
      "summary": "Uber is also making investing in Zipline a part of the tie-up.",
      "source": "techcrunch.com",
      "published": "Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:18:49 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/wispr-raises-280m-at-2b-valuation-as-it-looks-beyond-dictation/",
      "summary": "Wispr’s total funding is now over $361 million.",
      "source": "techcrunch.com",
      "published": "Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:10:05 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/crypto-hardware-wallet-owners-face-fresh-security-risks-after-recent-spate-of-personal-data-thefts/",
      "summary": "The hacks at shipping companies used to mail out hardware wallets puts crypto owners at greater risk of real-world attacks.",
      "source": "techcrunch.com",
      "published": "Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:00:19 +0000",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "How to take better photos of your pets",
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/970021/how-to-take-better-pet-photos",
      "summary": "Like the pets of any self-respecting millennial, my cats have their own Instagram account. Noodle and Loaf - aka Carb Cats - aren't exactly celebrities. But they are used to having their photos taken a lot. Between their Instagram account, my regular need to test smartphone camer",
      "source": "theverge.com",
      "published": "2026-08-17T07:00:00-04:00",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Whisker’s AI-powered litter robot thinks my cats swapped bodies",
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/978323/whisker-litter-robot-5-pro-review",
      "summary": "The greatest invention in pet tech in recent years is the litter robot. A machine that scoops your kitties' poop so you don't have to - what else could a cat owner possibly want? How about insights into your kitty's litter box usage that could flag health issues? Sign me up. But ",
      "source": "theverge.com",
      "published": "2026-08-17T07:00:00-04:00",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work",
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/980869/anthropic-claude-watermarks-synthid-text-system",
      "summary": "Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude's text marking system is \"a version of the SynthID-Text approach\" - an open-source w",
      "source": "theverge.com",
      "published": "2026-08-17T06:57:13-04:00",
      "image": null
    }
  ]
}