Days after a rival Chinese lab shook Silicon Valley, Alibaba has fired back. The company previewed Qwen3.8, its most powerful model yet, and made a bold claim: it trails only one model on Earth. Alibaba unveiled the model at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. Its Qwen team said on X that Qwen3.8 is […]
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Spotify began testing a new content format on Tuesday: narrated long-form magazine articles, slotted in alongside audiobooks rather than podcasts. The launch announced from the company’s newsroom on Tuesday morning, includes more than 650 English-language pieces from a roster that runs through Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Variety, Billboard, Vibe, GQ, WIRED, Vanity Fair and Pitchfork. […]
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The new standalone app sits on top of Facebook Groups, adds an AI tab called “Ask” and an admin assistant, and arrives the same month Mark Zuckerberg told staff he and Chris Cox had discussed whether they could build 50 new apps. Meta has released a new standalone app called Forum, without a launch event, […]
Read MoreTL;DR Unitree Robotics unveiled the GD01, a 2.8-metre transformable mecha priced from $650,000, but the real story is the company behind it: Unitree shipped more humanoid robots than Tesla in 2025, holds 70% of the quadruped market, grew revenue 335% to $235 million, has been profitable since 2020, and is filing for a $7 billion […]
Read MoreThe new mode runs Meta AI on WhatsApp inside the company’s Private Processing enclave, with conversations deleted by default and no server-side record retained. Meta has launched an Incognito Chat mode for Meta AI on WhatsApp and the Meta AI app, an effort to address the awkward fact that its assistant, like every other major […]
Read MoreTL;DR SAP embedded Berlin-based n8n inside Joule Studio as the orchestration layer for its Autonomous Enterprise platform, doubling n8n’s valuation to $5.2 billion and making the fair-code workflow automation startup Germany’s most valuable AI company. Jan Oberhauser started n8n in 2019 as a side project in Berlin because the workflow automation tools he used at […]
Read MoreTL;DR Google killed ChromeOS and unveiled Googlebook, a premium Android laptop with Gemini embedded at the OS level, turning the cursor into an AI agent and unifying its 3.6 billion-device ecosystem onto a desktop for the first time. Google killed the Chromebook. It took 15 years, but the company that invented the browser-as-operating-system has concluded […]
Read MoreTL;DR SAP unveiled the Autonomous Enterprise at Sapphire 2026, embedding 200+ AI agents into its core business applications and partnering with Anthropic to make Claude its primary reasoning engine, betting that owning business process logic matters more than owning the AI model as its stock falls 41 per cent. Christian Klein opened the SAP Sapphire […]
Read MoreThe new platform pairs GPT-5.5 variants with Codex Security and a roster of enterprise security partners, all aimed at defenders. OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative aimed at finding software vulnerabilities, generating patches, and validating fixes inside enterprise codebases. The launch positions OpenAI directly against Anthropic’s Mythos, which has spent the past few months […]
Read MoreTL;DR Google launched the 99 dollar screenless Fitbit Air and a 9.99 dollar per month Gemini-powered AI health coach. One day later, Whoop responded by adding on-demand video consultations with licensed clinicians to its app. Google launched a 99 dollar screenless fitness tracker and a 9.99 dollar per month AI health coach powered by Gemini. […]
Read MoreTL;DR The Pentagon launched war.gov/ufo with 162 declassified UFO files, including unexplained Apollo 17 photographs and military sighting memos. Two-thirds of the documents are partially redacted. The Department of War launched a website on Friday called war.gov/ufo. It contains 162 files, including photographs from the Apollo 17 mission that NASA cannot explain, infrared videos of […]
Read MoreSpotify has just released an expansion of its premium AI DJ feature that promises to enhance the experience for users in Europe and Brazil, adding the DJ function to new markets and four additional languages: French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. The AI DJ feature is an interactive AI-powered DJ that functions as a radio […]
Read MoreTL;DR Google launched the Fitbit Air, a 100 dollar screenless fitness band that rivals Whoop’s hardware design but undercuts its subscription by more than half, paired with a Gemini-powered AI health coach at 10 dollars a month. The device launches alongside a forced migration of Fitbit data to Google accounts by 19 May and a […]
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The over-the-air update replaces Google Assistant across model year 2022 and newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles, but arrives under the shadow of GM’s data-sharing controversy and a looming FTC consent order. General Motors has announced that Google Gemini is rolling out to approximately four million vehicles in the United States, in what the […]
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In short: Samsung SmartThings and IKEA announced that 25 new IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices can now connect directly to a SmartThings hub without requiring IKEA’s own DIRIGERA hub, with smart bulbs starting at $5.99 that undercut competitors by half. The integration leverages Thread border routers already embedded in Samsung TVs, soundbars, and appliances since 2022, meaning […]
Read MoreOpenAI is building a systems integrator channel for Codex, enlisting large consulting firms to carry the coding agent into organisations it cannot reach through direct sales. Cognizant and CGI are the first named SI partners in the programme, announced on the same day. Codex has grown 6x among ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users since January. […]
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Summary: OpenAI’s Codex for Mac has added Chronicle, a research preview feature that periodically captures screenshots, sends them to OpenAI’s servers for processing, and stores text summaries as local unencrypted Markdown files to give the AI assistant passive context about user activity. The feature is unavailable in the EU, UK, and Switzerland, requires a $100+/month […]
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Summary: Semrush launched a Brand Visibility Framework at Adobe Summit introducing “Agentic Search Optimisation” as a new discipline for measuring brand presence across AI-generated answers, traditional search, and autonomous AI agents, drawing on 213 million LLM prompts. The framework arrives as organic click-through rates have dropped 61% on queries with AI Overviews, 62% of brands […]
Read MoreThe European Investment Fund is raising a €15 billion fund of funds called ETCI 2 that aims to unlock up to €80 billion in scaleup funding across Europe. Germany’s WIN initiative is targeting €12 billion by 2030. France’s Tibi programme has pledged €7 billion in private capital and labelled 92 VC and growth funds with […]
Read MoreSummary: Zoom has partnered with World, Sam Altman’s biometric identity company, to let meeting participants verify they are human using World’s Deep Face technology, which cross-references iris-scanned biometric profiles with live video to display a “Verified Human” badge. The feature responds to deepfake fraud that cost businesses over $200 million in Q1 2025 alone, including […]
Read MoreUber has launched a service that sends a gig worker to your door to collect items you want to return to a retailer, for $5 a pickup. The feature, called Return a Package, is available in the Uber Eats app across nearly 5,000 US cities and works with nine retail partners including Target, Best Buy, […]
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Intel has launched its Core Series 3 processors, codenamed Wildcat Lake, in what amounts to a direct response to the MacBook Neo. The new chips, announced on 16 April, target the same budget laptop segment that Apple redefined last month with its $599 machine, and they arrive with a familiar pitch: more choice, more AI […]
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The storage company is launching a Dropbox file app, a Dropbox Dash enterprise search app, and a Reclaim AI calendar app inside ChatGPT, letting users access, save, and act on their work without leaving the AI interface. The move is the latest sign that ChatGPT is positioning itself as a productivity operating system, not just […]
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The Cologne-based translation company best known for its text tools has unveiled a full voice product suite covering meetings, conversations, group settings, and an API for enterprise integration. A live demo in Seoul showed one-to-two sentence delays, and DeepL’s CPO acknowledged word order differences between languages remain a fundamental challenge. DeepL, the Cologne-based language AI […]
Read MoreIn short: Samsung has updated SmartThings with family care features that use connected appliances and wearables to monitor elderly relatives remotely, including fall detection via robot vacuum camera, cognitive decline screening through behavioural pattern analysis, environmental safety alerts, and activity tracking. The update also adds Galaxy AI-powered routine creation, millimetre-wave ambient sensing with local processing, […]
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In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4’s 57.7%), multi-agent coordination for hours-long workflows, 3x higher image resolution, and a 14% improvement in multi-step agentic reasoning with a third of the tool errors. Priced at $5/$25 per million tokens, it […]
Read MoreIn short: Athena Technology Solutions, a Fremont-based MES integrator with roughly 120 employees, has launched FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing that automates reporting, support tickets, system modelling, and code generation for semiconductor and electronics factories. Built in partnership with Bangalore-based LLM at Scale.AI, it layers LLM capabilities on top of the Siemens Opcenter […]
Read MoreThe Lucid Gravity SUV runs Nuro’s autonomous driving system, powered by Nvidia Drive AGX Thor. A human safety operator sits behind the wheel. Uber has committed to buying at least 20,000 of these vehicles over the next six years. Uber and Nuro have begun employee test rides of a premium robotaxi service in San Francisco, […]
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In short: BILL has expanded its Supplier Payments Plus product to let large enterprise suppliers accept card and ACH payments from any SMB customer, including those with no BILL account, converting paper checks into digital transactions automatically and depositing card payments directly into supplier accounts. The company says the changes can shorten collection times by up […]
Read MoreVerne, the autonomous mobility company spun out of Croatian hypercar maker Rimac, launched commercial robotaxi rides in Zagreb on 8 April alongside Pony.ai and Uber. The vehicles operate with safety operators onboard for now. Waymo is targeting London for Q4 2026. Verne, the autonomous mobility company spun out of Croatian electric hypercar maker Rimac Group, […]
Read MoreFor years, buying editorial coverage looked less like modern marketing and more like digging through email archives. A brand would hire an agency. The agency built a media list. Then came dozens, sometimes hundreds, of outreach emails to publishers. Threads multiplied. Negotiations dragged on. And only if everything aligned would a sponsored article or press […]
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