With Sleep Studio the Echo Glow can light up to let kids know when they should be sleeping or can get out of bed. | Image: Amazon Amazon has launched a new feature for its Echo and Echo Kids smart speakers called Sleep Studio that’s designed to make the daily transition to bedtime more enticing … Read more
Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machines is designed to let AI buy services and settle transactions using cards, bank accounts, and stablecoins.
Anthropic released Claude Fable, its first Mythos-class AI model, yesterday and it’s already causing concerns inside Microsoft. Sources tell me that Microsoft is limiting the use of Claude Fable 5 for employees because of Anthropic’s new data retention requirements. While Microsoft quickly rolled out Claude Fable 5 to its GitHub Copilot and Foundry customers, I’m … Read more
Problems with Starlink’s India expansion could challenge SpaceX’s IPO growth story.
In this week’s Crypto Long & Short, Ben Nadareski writes that to win over big investors, DeFi builders must act like accountable money managers, not just software developers. Then, Stephen Stonberg says that bitcoin holders can survive crashes and protect their assets by earning income through reinsurance.
Google is making some changes to how it saves your interactions with Search. In an email sent to users, Google says it will save the images, files, audio, and video you use to search under a new “Search Services History” setting. That includes the images you search for with Google Lens, recordings from its real-time … Read more
Puneet Mehta, a former high-level Wall Street engineer and data scientist, said the rapid expansion of AI enterprise software will increase demand for stablecoins and blockchain.
New research suggests that AI memory systems can degrade model performance and encourage sycophantic tendencies.
A recent research note published by Citi analysts reached a conclusion about quantum risk that should give every institutional bitcoin holder pause, Tabar explains.
Proposed CFTC rules would forbid markets where an outcome could be impacted by war or assassination, even when conflict isn’t mentioned.
The company is working with Coinbase, Stripe and other companies to build trusted payment systems for AI-driven commerce.
BTC’s rebound shows signs of weakening under a string of technical resistance levels, raising the odds of a dip below $60,000 in June.
Backed by Alexis Ohanian’s 776 and Kindred Ventures, Zest uses transaction data and AI to generate restaurant recommendations based on users’ real dining habits and the places they frequent.
For the equipment distributor behind a solar installation in Phoenix or the contractor wiring an industrial buildout in Cleveland, the hardest part of the job is not the equipment. It is the ninety days of cash-flow purgatory wrapped around it. Suppliers demand payment before goods leave the dock. Customers pay net 30 or net 60 … Read more
Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic’s new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cybersecurity work.
As frontier AI models grow in scale and complexity, developers face a common challenge across every hardware platform: how do you extract the maximum performance and efficiency from the silicon their models run on. Whether delivering real-time experiences for world models, supporting deeper reasoning in agentic workflows, or reducing inference costs at scale, the gap … Read more
Managing equipment repairs for heavy farm machinery often requires technicians to diagnose issues without the right parts, leading to multiple site visits, extended downtime, and substantial financial losses, especially during harvest season. In this post, you build an AI-powered equipment repair assistant using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that helps farmers and field technicians diagnose equipment problems, … Read more
While Silicon Valley continues pushing aggressively into large language models and consumer-facing AI products, many European companies are focused on applying AI to complex systems already embedded into everyday life.
Let’s open with the conclusion, because that’s the most useful thing we can do for you: PdfPig is good. We mean that without qualification, and we’ll spend most of this article showing you why. That probably sounds odd coming from a team that ships a commercial PDF library. We’re the developer community at Iron Software, … Read more
For years, digital visibility has been built on a fairly stable assumption: if you rank on Google, you win the internet. SEO became the operating system of discovery, and most content strategies were designed around a single idea—move up the rankings and traffic will follow. That system is now starting to fracture in ways that … Read more
A deepfake campaign attack ad in the US state of Minnesota has raised questions around the ethics of using AI in political ads and the regulations surround AI use.
TRM Labs said onchain gambling reached $51 billion in 2025, with repeat users and stablecoin flows helping the sector remain resilient during a broader crypto market pullback.
Tappy is a tiny wireless remote that doesn’t look like one. Following the launch of the surprisingly popular Kobo Remote, Boox has released its own device to ease the burden of reaching for an e-reader’s touchscreen that’s an arm’s length away. The Tappy isn’t Boox’s first page-turning remote, but its design takes a much different … Read more
The Apple Watch Series 11 is $100 off in all colors. Apple’s upcoming watchOS 27 update will bring Siri AI and other exciting features to the Apple Watch Series 9 and newer Apple Watch models. If you’re contemplating an upgrade, all colorways of the GPS-enabled 42mm Apple Watch Series 11 — the latest model — … Read more
Most of the value in SpaceX’s IPO is effectively a call option on the company’s ambitious space data center plans.
The reading likely supports restrictive monetary policy.
Every year, more than $2 trillion in contractually committed value never reaches an enterprise bottom line. It is not stolen. It is not the product of badly drafted agreements. It evaporates in the space between what was agreed and what was collected, because no system in the modern enterprise stack was ever built to enforce … Read more