Technology

Spotify and Liquid Death launched what might be the wildest product of the year: a speaker shaped like a urn. Source

The company said that a new agent being introduced in Opal will allow users to create mini-apps that can let them plan and execute tasks using text prompts. Source

The U.S. Treasury announced it was imposing sanctions against a Russian broker of zero-day exploits, its founder and two affiliates, citing a threat to U.S. national security. Another affiliated zero-day broker in the United Arab Emirates was also sanctioned. Source

By bringing Reels to TV, Instagram is looking to better compete with YouTube, which largely dominates the TV space. Source

AI has brought the startup world the rise of companies that instantly hit multimillion-dollar ARR. Stripe revealed some data that shows how common this has become. Source