Elon Musk says the incoming Grok 4.8 will trail Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5, praising his rival’s model while predicting Grok 5 could surpass it in two or three months.
Sony is retiring the PlayStation Plus app for PC on December 10th. Sony says it will notify users directly about the shutdown. The app allowed PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers to stream certain games on PC, but according to Sony, there aren’t many people using that perk: “With a very small number of eligible PlayStation Plus … Read more
The deal comes a few weeks after Oura postponed its up to $2.2 billion IPO indefinitely, citing “uncertainty in the IPO market.”
SpaceX announced a new version of its all-in-one satellite internet terminal that integrates a dish, Wi-Fi router, and now a battery into a single device about the size of a laptop. According to some users on X who shared screenshots of invitations to order Starlink Mini 2, the dish is priced at $999, which includes … Read more
Grayscale plans to direct $1 million from its Zcash ETF fees to ecosystem nonprofits and launched a national ad campaign, as ZEC fell more than 11%.
As espionage targets go, Jensen Huang is perhaps one of the least surprising on Earth. The Nvidia CEO runs one of the world’s most valuable companies, controls the in-demand technology fueling the AI boom, and is cozy with presidents, CEOs, and all manner of important people. He also wears a cool leather jacket. Which makes … Read more
PSI used an unreleased Anthropic model to answer a fundamental question about quantum computing that scientists have pursued for nearly two decades.
Google is adding a new feature to its underwhelming HiLight light on the back of Pixel 11 Pro phones: as part of the November 2026 Pixel Drop, the light can light up when you get Google Messages texts from your favorite contacts. Sure, it’s a small addition to the disappointing ways you could use HiLight … Read more
After years of third-party Android trackers from companies like Samsung, Motorola, and Pebblebee, Google’s Pixel Tag is now available for purchase. First announced in August, the Pixel Tag is designed to work with Google’s tracking network and app that was renamed the Find Hub last year. The Pixel Tag is priced similar to Apple’s AirTag … Read more
OpenAI is looking to make ChatGPT a more robust consumer discovery engine, and a host of new features seek to empower businesses to help it do that.
Google’s Pixel Tag lets you track lost items with your Android device, similar to Apple’s AirTag.
The funding, backing a U.S.-incorporated issuer codenamed “Project Faro,” covers five years of operations as traditional lenders move to challenge crypto-native giants Tether and Circle.
Starting next week, customers can deposit and withdraw money through Brazil’s instant payment system. Crypto transfers remain suspended.
Corporate treasury teams face a persistent challenge: fragmented banking data scattered across dozens of bank portals, manual reporting trapped in spreadsheets, and legacy Treasury Management Systems (TMS) that can’t scale for modern enterprise needs. For treasury teams these manual processes create delays, errors, and an inability to make real-time cash decisions when they matter most. … Read more
Today, Ableton announced Live 13, which is expected to arrive in early 2027 with a slew of new features. Most of the changes are seemingly minor on paper, but when combined, they make for the biggest update to the digital audio workstation (DAW) in years. The feature most likely to draw attention is the addition … Read more
Some Independent Games Festival (IGF) jurors published a statement yesterday saying they would not vote for games that use generative AI in “any capacity.” Soon after, the developer of indie hit Big Walk has published a statement saying it “sparingly” used AI in the “final stretch” of the game’s development to “help work through difficult … Read more
Google Fi is launching a new “super network” that can automatically switch users between two different 5G networks depending on which one has better connectivity. The feature is rolling out starting today on Pixel 9 and newer phones that have Google Fi active on eSIM and have any non-Fi SIMs disabled. When Google Fi first … Read more
The venture, known as Project Faro, plans to issue a dollar-denominated stablecoin and is expected to be incorporated in the U.S.
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US inflation came in above forecasts in October, increasing expectations of a bigger rate hike in December and raising concerns for crypto investors.
As participants talk, Claude can draft the plan being discussed, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to retrieve information, such as last year’s figures.
For years, Anthropic has been known for its focus on enterprise and coding tools that attract high-flying corporate clients, inspiring competing frontier labs – like OpenAI, SpaceXSI, and Meta – to copy its strategies. Earlier this year, Claude Code went through its own particular hype cycle. And now, Anthropic is trying to expand its footprint … Read more
Trading volume on Polymarket’s US exchange surged from June to October, fueled by sports betting, even as the platform faces mounting regulatory scrutiny.
Twice now, crypto firms have found themselves on the side of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in holding that perpetual futures aren’t swaps.
The affair could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.
Welcome to another HackerNoon Company of the Week feature. Every week, we highlight a standout company from our Tech Company Database that’s making waves in the global tech ecosystem and the lives of its users. Our database features everything from S&P giants to rising stars in the Startup scene. We’ll also be featuring Projects of the Week, so stay … Read more
This post was co-written with Varun Valsan from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) runs large-scale testing for Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) clients, where the slowest part of a release is rarely writing application code. The larger constraint is the chain of work that follows: interpreting requirements, designing scenarios, writing and … Read more
If you need an observability data lake for your Amazon Bedrock workloads, you’re not alone. When you’re running thousands of model invocations a day across multiple accounts, after a request is sent you might be wondering, what happened? You can see the aggregate bill, but you can’t see what happened inside each call. You might … Read more
Sundrop is a new iPhone app that uses Apple’s on-device AI to help parents rediscover their favorite photos and create keepsakes without uploading images to the cloud.