Games look gorgeous on its 7.9-inch screen. | Photo: Brandt Ranj / The Verge Woot is celebrating its 22nd anniversary by rolling out a full week of sales, and one of them stands out for gamers looking to get a deal on Nintendo’s latest console. Normally $449.99, the Nintendo Switch 2 is $22 off for … Read more
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New gaming gear is always promising to shave milliseconds off latency or response time. The improvements usually aren’t obvious. But the Glorious GHS InfinitePlay wireless headset, on the other hand, could save you far more than just milliseconds: It has the fastest hot-swap battery system I’ve ever used, and the headset doesn’t die when you … Read more
People visit the booth of Kimi, an LLM developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot, during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, Monday, July 20, 2026. | Image: LONG WEI/ Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images Last week, two Chinese AI companies unveiled models they say can credibly compete with the best systems from OpenAI … Read more
How does AI make you feel? Are you excited to “vibe-code” your smart home? Or anxious about all the added pollution and billions of gallons of water used by data centers? Dig a little deeper and you’ll start to question the actual value of the GPUs that underpin all the leaps and promises of generative … Read more
Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.
This interview is part of the Judge Spotlight series for the Decentralize AI Hackathon, where we sit down with our judges to explore their work, perspectives, and advice for builders. As a judge for the Decentralize AI Hackathon, Sjoerd Dijkstra, Co-Founder of Nosana, brings years of experience building at the intersection of AI and Web3, … Read more
The integration of Generative AI into financial services presents unprecedented opportunities alongside complex regulatory challenges. Institutions are actively seeking pathways to deploy advanced artificial intelligence without compromising the integrity of legacy systems or exposing sensitive client data. Leading this transformation is Radhika Venugopal, a Technical Architect with eighteen years of experience in enterprise financial technology … Read more
Making crypto as simple as sending an email. Bitcoin solved digital money. Ethereum introduced smart contracts. But one problem still affects almost every blockchain today: Identity doesn’t exist. Every wallet is just a long string of random characters. 0x8b34…bc1q9…TQf7… Every blockchain has different wallet addresses. Every exchange asks you to complete KYC again. Every dApp asks … Read more
“There is no ghost in the machine. There is only linear algebra, wearing a very convincing costume.” Every time a product manager calls an AI system “smart” in a standup, somewhere an ML engineer flinches. Not because the word is entirely false, but because the actual mechanism is both less mystical and more interesting than … Read more
Most COSS founders pick a number too early and then guard it like a fortress. They settle on something that feels defensible, publish it, and refuse to touch it again, because changing prices feels like breaking a promise. The instinct is backwards. A price is a hypothesis. You test it against what people will actually … Read more
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn’t resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.
The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.
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The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.
Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley’s Hound Dog to Beyoncé’s Say My Name, and Harry Styles’ As It Was. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court on Monday, claims that this … Read more
The Skyrover X1 vs the DJI Mini 4 Pro. | Image: AirPhotography Last October, we told you how the FCC had given itself the power to retroactively ban gadgets that have already received its approval to be imported and sold in the United States. Now, the FCC’s getting ready to wield that power for the … Read more
After seeing Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey for the first time early last week, I came away impressed, but somewhat conflicted about two of the film’s more fantastical set pieces. While those scenes were beautifully crafted and tremendously acted, there was something a little bit off about the way they hit my eye. I spent days … Read more
San Francisco, United States, July 20th, 2026/TechnologyWire/–HireQuotient, an AI-native recruiting platform, today announced its integration with Paylocity (Nasdaq: PCTY), bringing AI-powered candidate sourcing and screening capabilities to Paylocity customers in manufacturing, building services, construction, healthcare and insurance, which are industries where deskless and frontline hiring has historically been underserved by AI recruiting tools. Employers in … Read more
What is an Agent, Actually? Distinguishing LLMs, agents, orchestration, and frameworks When I wrote my first tutorials on open-source multi-agent frameworks in 2024, “agent” already meant something genuinely complicated – an LLM’s behavior already depended on scaffolding well beyond the model itself: a defined role, a memory system, a planning process, coordination layers. The complexity … Read more
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.
The project aims to build a connected digital economy where NTE can be used across node participation, staking, AI-based services, marketplace transactions, ecosystem access and future blockchain applications. A Multi-Utility Economy Powered by NTE NTE is the central utility token of the NodeMeta ecosystem. It is currently deployed on BNB Smart Chain with a defined … Read more