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Apple is raising prices on Macs and iPads by at least 15%, attributing the hikes to the AI boom and increased demand for memory and storage from data center buildouts. The entry-level MacBook Air now costs $1,299, up fro…
Apple hardcoded a restriction into Siri AI's system prompt in iOS 27 beta 2, causing it to refuse to summarize, read, or extract information from URLs. The move aims to prevent Siri AI from repackaging web content withou…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek plans to at least double its staff of roughly 170 after raising $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, one of the largest ever for a Chinese startup. The round, which values the com…
QuadSci won the 2026 Machine Learning Company of the Year award from AI Breakthrough for the second consecutive year, claiming 90% predictive accuracy for churn and growth events 9-18 months before renewal. The company h…
French insurtech Alan raised €480 million in a Series G round led by Prosus at a €5.5 billion valuation, just months after its previous round. The company plans to use the funds to expand its AI-driven prevention insuran…
Nylas developer tools enable AI agents to negotiate meeting times over email using multi-turn conversations, rather than simple calendar creation. The approach uses Nylas Agent Accounts with dedicated email and calendar,…
Fal has added ByteDance's Seed Audio 1.0 to its hosted model gallery and API, enabling developers to generate audio from text, reference audio, or images through a single endpoint. The move positions Fal as an infrastruc…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is doubling its headcount across departments, including a new Harness team for agent products, as it shifts from a research-focused operation to a product company. The expansion aims to build a na…
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn admitted in April 2026 that the company had removed AI usage from employee performance evaluations, reversing a key part of its AI-first strategy after internal objections. The metric had shifte…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was replaced by co-founder Tom Brown in White House meetings after officials found Amodei difficult to engage with, according to a report. The change comes as the Trump administration imposed e…
A developer at Yogreet Global proposes dynamic model-routing thresholds to optimize costs and performance when escalating requests to frontier AI models. By analyzing request characteristics like token count and historic…
OpenAI released gpt-realtime-2 on May 7, offering speech-to-speech reasoning at $0.25-$0.35 per minute, which collapsed the AI voice wrapper layer by eliminating the need for stitching multiple vendors. Vapi raised $50M …
Subwave launches a personal internet radio station powered by an agentic AI DJ that selects tracks, writes and speaks intros, station idents, time checks, and weather updates. The service streams a single shared broadcas…
A new comparison of ten contract management software tools for 2026 highlights AI-assisted review, repository search, and renewal control as key differentiators. Gatekeeper leads with its LuminIQ AI agents that read cont…
A technical writer argues that diverse technical systems—from data engineering pipelines to RAG-based AI products—share a common underlying structure, using stages of refinement to transform raw inputs into usable output…
Micron Technology reported record Q3 FY26 revenue of $41.16 billion, up 74% sequentially and 346% year-over-year, with net income surging 1,400% to $28.2 billion. The memory maker's strong performance, driven by demand f…
DeepReinforce open-sourced Ornith-1.0, a family of self-improving coding models ranging from 9B to 397B parameters, which learn to generate their own task-specific scaffolds during reinforcement learning. The models achi…
Macy's senior director of engineering Murali Murugan says the retailer is adopting an 'AI-first' approach to embed intelligence into personalization, search, and operations, aiming to make digital retail experiences more…
The European Union held talks with the White House to regain access to Anthropic's advanced AI models after a US export-control order cut off European access in mid-June. The order, citing a jailbreak concern, forced Ant…
AirPosture, an open-source iOS app, uses AirPods' hidden sensors to provide real-time posture coaching during work and workouts. The app runs in the background, mirrors user movements with a bear avatar, and displays liv…