Plaud’s $250 earbuds record your conversations and act on what they hear
Plaud has announced $250 wireless earbuds with 4G connectivity that record conversations and let an AI assistant act on what was said, with pre-orders open in eight countries incl…
Google’s new Fitbit Air brings Pokémon Sleep to your wrist
Google teamed up with the Pokemon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.
SK Hynix breaks ground on a $4B memory packaging hub in Indiana
SK Hynix has broken ground on a plant costing more than $4B in West Lafayette, Indiana, its first US base for packaging high-bandwidth memory, with production due in the second ha…
Fashion startup Atorie raises $9.5M to bring consumers luxury goods without the markup
Fashion startup Atorie announced Thursday a $9.5 million seed round.
Hoomanely’s building a smart feeding bowl and an AI platform to help owners spot when their pup is sick
Hoomanely has developed a smart bowl to measure and record dogs' feeding data, then tells owners if behaviors change.
The executive assistant of the future: DonnaPro’s approach to human-AI collaboration
Every productivity tool on the market right now is telling you the same thing: AI will replace what you do. Cut the middleman. Automate the humans. Do more with less. Filip Pesek …
JPMorgan leads a $5B debt package for Volta’s AI data centre buildout
JPMorgan has begun approaching lenders about a $5B debt package to fund Volta Infra Holdings’ AI data centre buildout, weeks after the seven-month-old company raised $300M at a $2…
Voltpost is making an EV charger that hangs from your garage ceiling
Voltpost has launched two Level 2 chargers that mount on parking garage ceilings and on walls, avoiding trenching and cutting installation costs by up to 70% according to the comp…
Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more
The updates indicate that Google is looking position to AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling pa…
This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground’
The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer base and help reduce red tape for utility and construction work.
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck
Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.
Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in town
Coates said in a LinkedIn post that the company is not trying to recreate Twitter.
Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale
Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other sudden movements made by the autonomous vehicles, according to a…
Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others
The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software.
AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps
Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.
UiPath founder Daniel Dines has written a book that dares readers to prove it wrong by 2028
Daniel Dines has published The Work That Remains, arguing that enterprises should let AI agents prepare work while humans own consequential decisions and deterministic automation …
Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.
The AI revolution is optimizing for the wrong things
Every large language model existing today is getting worse at writing, and almost nobody is measuring it. The industry keeps asking which model is smartest, but the bigger questio…
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to buy Hugging Face for $12.9bn
Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face at a valuation above $13bn, according to Business Insider, days after reports that the open-model hub was exploring a sale at roug…
The next frontier in fintech is understanding the person behind the data
Fintech has spent almost two decades making financial information increasingly accessible, portable, and actionable. Open banking, digital wallets and connected financial platform…
Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
Plaud's new 'agentic' earbuds are priced at $249.
Perion acquires PRN for up to $12 million, expanding in-store retail media reach across North America
For years, advertisers have been trying to connect digital campaigns with what happens inside physical stores. Perion’s latest acquisition is aimed at closing that gap, extending …
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India
OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.
Huawei plans more AI pharma partnerships, mainly with Chinese drugmakers
Huawei intends to sign more AI partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, according to William Zhang, president of its healthcare business unit, who told Reuters the projects cur…