Amazon had plenty of new gadgets to share at its Echo hardware event this year, along with updates to the AI-powered Alexa Plus after it became available to everyone in the US in February. But the big news this year is screens: devices with big, beautiful ones, and those that lack them entirely. There’s the … Read more
As Meta was feeling public pressure over teen mental health, and facing an impending onslaught of kids safety trials, the company considered a campaign to discredit a key critic: social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. Newly filed court documents show that in March 2023, Meta discussed a “Whisper strategy” to “turn academics against Haidt,” a thought leader … Read more
Meta has launched a “tamagotchi-style” pet game called Waddle World, with virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations. According to its Apple and Play Store listings, the “16-bit pet care game” is not really a game, but “a daily journal disguised as a pet.” Users should talk, not type, with … Read more
When an AI agent pays on someone’s behalf, responsibility should follow the mandate that person agreed in advance, says Dmytro Rukin, CEO of LaFinteca. The user answers for the limits they set, the agent provider for keeping the agent inside them, and the merchant and payment provider for the checks only they can run. The … Read more
I don’t usually write essays. Actually, I don’t think I have written many long-form things in my life, except code files. My journey with computers started with Microsoft Word. I was probably around 10 when I first saw WordArt. It was one of the coolest things I had seen. You could create these amazing (at … Read more
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B on October 23. The pitch is a small model tuned for agents: it calls tools, follows instructions, and is small enough for laptops, Jetsons and other edge hardware. The model card’s benchmarks are tested on H100s, RTX 5090s and DGX Spark. I wanted to see what happens without any … Read more
Short answer: Go to the places where your buyers already are. With no audience, your first users come mostly from direct outreach, communities, launch directories and search content. Expect the first 100 users to come from effort, not from a launch day. Why having no audience is not fatal An audience helps, but it is … Read more
The contract came first. Independent oversight was still a thought. By the time Dražen Višnjić publicly explained the technology project, Republika Srpska’s government had already signed an agreement worth BAM 57 million with the Chinese company ELINC. The proposed combination was explicit: Chinese hardware and software, Russian organizational practices, and Israeli training. Asked who would … Read more
Jio has debuted as India’s second-most valuable listed company, behind its parent, Reliance Industries.
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Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon’s ownership in Anthropic.
A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.
As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sort of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.
Within hours of the iPhone Duo launch last Friday, people reported that the inner screen on some brand new foldable phones was already broken. The issue was similar across many photos shared on social media: some kind of issue or crack would appear in the middle of the screen above the hinge, with lines appearing … Read more
The deal, expected to close sometime next year, is to help bring AI agents to work alongside humans to underwrite, analyze, and price decisions.
A whole crop of venture capital firms are raising significant new funds.
GM eschewed hybrids in favor of battery-electric vehicles. Now it’s gearing up to offer hybrid versions of its SUVs.
The banking giant reminds customers that “you’re responsible for activity” resulting from your AI agents’ access.
I’ve been dictating designs to Codex with Wispr Flow, then printing the results: holders that fit my speaker, my pegboard and the little meters I want to use. I’d never done CAD modelling before. Now I can describe what I want and get something made to my specification. Roughly three months ago, I didn’t even … Read more
Most SaaS companies have a customer health score. Green, yellow, red. A number from 0 to 100, built out of logins, seats, NPS, support tickets, and weights someone picked in a workshop. Very few of those scores have ever been tested. Not “does it look reasonable.” Tested: when the score said an account was red, … Read more
A car hanging upside down makes a remarkable photograph. I still cannot think of a journey I need to make that way. That tension is what interests me about Tesla’s latest Roadster reveal. Its most memorable moment offered almost nothing I would ask for in an everyday car. Yet, it made me think much harder … Read more
When people hear “DRM,” they picture cryptography: keys, ciphers, the dark art of stopping a video from being copied. That part is real, and on a creator platform that sells video, it is also the easy half. The maths is solved. There are well-understood encryption schemes and well-understood providers to hold the keys. You can … Read more
On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to The Verge are growing increasingly tired of the company’s antics. It has been a turbulent few months between OpenAI … Read more
The manufacturing accelerator bills itself as “America’s answer to Shenzhen.”