The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It’s a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps.
Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system.
Shopify’s new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the changes happen in real time.
Amazon Web Services’ Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B.
Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.
Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.
OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.
President Trump reportedly asked for Grok’s opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.
Researcher Toby Ord discusses rising anxiety about AI’s existential risks
New findings by Asymmetric Security provide further evidence of novel tactics AI tools use to conduct hacks
Our sense of smell helps us to keep a few shreds of privacy intact and maintains a dividing line between real and virtual worlds
Planned 400-megawatt data centre near Tokyo will be among Asia’s largest projects outside China
The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times
Accruing income at home from land and power abroad has an old name: empire
Productivity gains in analysis are getting stuck in physical-world bottlenecks
The 2026 IPO market is reopening selectively, favoring large companies that spent the slowdown strengthening their financial reporting, governance and operations, writes guest author Mark Williams, chief revenue officer, enterprise, at Datasite, who explains why that readiness gives businesses options: list, raise private capital or sell.
Perplexity Research and turbopuffer have released pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a contextual embedding model for RAG pipelines. Each chunk is embedded with the full document in view. The real change is the training signal. The model learns to retrieve the answer along with the context needed to verify it, not one ‘gold passage.’ P Is it deployable? Yes, […]
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NVIDIA has released Kumo Tabular, a new family of tabular foundation models (TFMs) for classification and regression. If you have followed TabPFN or TabICL, the setup will look familiar. The model takes labeled rows as context and predicts new rows in one forward pass. There is no training, no hyperparameter tuning, and no feature engineering. […]
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Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies’ satellites, versus SpaceX’s closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.
The glasses stem from the startup’s goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditional hearing aids.
Existing investors and employees at speech-generation software company sell $300mn worth of stock
US president touts voluntary commitment which may create unexpected headaches for AI companies
Tech giant hopes ‘Argon’ will help it re-establish itself at the frontier of artificial intelligence
The Federal Trade Commission will demand information and seek testimony from the executives of leading AI companies
WeChat owner strikes deal to access US group’s south-east Asia data centres amid race with ByteDance and Alibaba
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol on September 29, 2026, an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol. It reaches near-Astra results on agentic coding, computer use and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s token prices. It costs $2 input and $10 output per million tokens, and cached input drops to $0.10. It is available now through the OpenAI API, ChatGPT Work and Codex.
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Gemini 4 Argon tops GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on most benchmarks, but access remains gated today.
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OpenAI is partnering with America’s SBDC to expand hands-on AI training and local support for small businesses, alongside a new report on how small teams are using AI.
Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation.
In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.
OpenAI’s Dots and Meta’s Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I’ve tried both—and I suspect you will too.
Six major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s unclear how much that matters.
Instagram is the latest social media platform to add built-in AI-powered features that will give users feedback on their posts. The company announced Wednesday that its standalone Edits app will now include an AI “creative assistant” that pulls in data from a user’s Instagram account and offers suggestions on what to change. Using the new […]
Google has launched a pilot program that pays publishers for their contributions to its AI-powered search features, according to a report from The Information. The pilot program reportedly includes around 100 publishers and comes as Google faces scrutiny over the impact of its AI features on web traffic. Digiday first reported on the pilot program, […]
