When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off
The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.
The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.
The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times
One economist has used it to turn years of painstaking policy research into an animated explainer
AI expenditure is growing rapidly, demanding a rethink of capital deployment
Brain-computer interfaces are already being used to treat Parkinson’s disease and allow paralysed patients to operate computers
The tremor seen this week could be a foretaste of things to come
Debt issued by AI infrastructure providers and neocloud companies such as CoreWeave has sunk to increasingly stressed levels
Global chip stocks caught up in volatile trading amid fears over sustainability of AI boom
New York-based Chariot Claims has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Silverton Partners to help consumers pursue claims over alleged privacy violations, hidden fees and subscriptions that are difficult to cancel.
For the third quarter of 2026, global cybersecurity- and privacy-focused startups pulled in a total of $6.8 billion, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about 50% from the prior quarter and tied for the highest quarterly tally in years.
As AI enables smaller, faster teams, companies should hire curious, adaptable people who challenge established practices and can be trusted to make independent decisions, according to guest author Eric Francia, who writes that giving employees real responsibility, encouraging questions and investing in continuous learning helps teams innovate, stay engaged and retain talent.
TypeSafe AI released Jev 1.14 under the jev-preview alias. The System One model adds experimental image input, a Box bounding-box type and an opt-in 262k-token context, at $0.042 per million input tokens.
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At Open Source Summit Europe 2026, openKylin outlined its vision for transitioning from resource management to intent management in the AI era. The community introduced KART, a unified AI runtime, alongside core desktop features in openKylin 3.0 like the AI Assistant, Global Intelligent Search, and Intelligent Space
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Introduction Teams shipping AI agents at scale keep running into the same pattern. Even agents built on top-tier models like Fable and Astra struggle to carry out complex, end-to-end tasks inside a specific product consistently enough to deploy. So teams grind out evals for the workflows that matter most, often hundreds or thousands of hand-written […]
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Celebrate Teachers’ Day with AI for Educators in Brazilian Portuguese and see how Study Mode can help teachers support active, step-by-step learning.
There’s a new digital pet in town – a cute little marshmallow of a robot that can change its cartoony expressions to match your mood. But if you or your kids talk to “Eiliko” over Wi-Fi, it’ll phone home to China. Its AI companion can store literally everything you tell it on Chinese servers, where […]
Last year, Amazon bought Bee, a relatively unknown startup with a $50 always-listening AI wearable that summarized every conversation you had. Today, the e-commerce giant is announcing two new Bee devices – and a new subscription to go with them. First is the $74.99 Bee Frontier, an updated version of the original Bee device. And […]
Google’s intelligent AI shopping cart is finally here, and just in time to tempt users into Black Friday and seasonal holiday spending. The Universal Cart tool Google previewed at its I/O event in May is now rolling out in the US across the Gemini app and Google Search, with the aim of making it easier […]
Today, I’m talking with Benn Jordan, musician, YouTuber, researcher, and investigative journalist. You might know Benn from those first two titles — he’s got a prolific discography of experimental music dating back decades. But in the last couple of years, he’s become a high-profile face in the creator and media spaces for his work investigating […]
In hindsight, the post on Instagram should have raised more red flags. The image purported to show actress Mia Goth, just days after filing for divorce from actor and filmmaker Shia LaBeouf, posing in a T-shirt with a pointed message: MY EX IS MY BIGGEST FAN. To really drive home the point, the song “Single […]
Microsoft and Nvidia held a launch party for the first wave of RTX Spark laptops last week in San Francisco, where a new wave of AI PCs took center stage amid a packed crowd and a lively hands-on area. A day after the media event, I was invited to a quieter Nvidia event to hear […]
There’s a growing trend in the consumer tech world: gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you, regardless of whether or not anyone else actually consented to it. Now, with the advent of “AI personal assistants” like Meta’s Muse, you’re being cheerfully asked not just to give up your own data, but also […]
Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today, claiming that it’s the “most capable US open-weight model to date.” But the company also says that it’s the “the first model in its class” that can “run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework.” Meta and Apple, […]
Amazon-owned Bee has launched its first new AI devices since its acquisition, including an updated wearable and a credit-card-sized recorder that attaches to smartphones. The devices can summarize conversations, create to-do lists, and integrate with Alexa and Amazon shopping, with prices starting at $74.99.
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The new shopping tool is available in the U.S. across Google Search and the Gemini app.
We’ll likely learn more about how this will work at the company’s upcoming “AI & Autonomy Day” event in December.
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Investors rush into Treasuries as sell-off triggers demand for haven assets
Tech companies face off in court as ChatGPT maker prepares to unveil AI device designed by Sir Jony Ive
Rapid growth is slower than some anticipated as fears about AI trade rattle markets
Ukrainian president calls Trump-Putin relationship a ‘mistake’
Fewer-but-bigger deals mean investors are having to put more eggs in a single basket
UK watchdog will set out its response to the rise of the latest frontier models
Fish Audio released Drama 3, a 35B mixture-of-experts text-to-speech model with about 3B active parameters. It takes plain-language direction, covers 83 languages and ships open weights under a revenue-capped community license.
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Datalab released OmniParseBench, an open OCR benchmark with 16,288 yes/no tests on 2,937 pages in 92 languages. Every score is a pass rate you can slice by tag, script or language.
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