Topic: tech event
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GITEX GLOBAL 2025 Sets Record with Global Tech Dialogues
GITEX GLOBAL 2025 set records as the world's premier tech event, featuring 6,800 enterprises and showcasing innovations in AI, quantum computing, and digital health across five days at Dubai venues. The event emphasized international collaboration and policy discussions on AI, with key dialogues ...
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Gitex Global 2025: AI Breakthroughs Take Center Stage
Gitex Global 2025 in Dubai is the world's largest tech and AI showcase, focusing on biotechnology, quantum computing, and semiconductors to address global challenges like disease and sustainability. The event unites over 6,800 enterprises and 2,000 startups from 180 nations, featuring industry le...
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Sheikh Mohammed Orders GITEX 2026 to Become World's Largest Tech & AI Event
GITEX TechCation 2026 aims to become the world's largest technology and AI event, transforming Dubai into a premier innovation hub through a citywide celebration of tech, investment, and lifestyle. The event is scheduled for December 7-11, 2026, at Expo City Dubai, supported by a strategic partne...
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Tech Leaders Unite on Future Industries at GITEX 2025
GITEX GLOBAL 2025, the world's largest tech and AI exhibition, will take place from October 13-17 in Dubai, featuring over 6,800 enterprises and 2,000 startups from 180 countries focused on AI infrastructure and critical sectors like biotech and quantum computing. The event highlights record inte...
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Apple AirPods Pro 3 Debut with Heart-Rate Tracking & Live Translation
Apple has launched the AirPods Pro 3, featuring heart-rate monitoring, improved noise cancellation, and real-time translation in a more compact design. Priced at $249, they are available for preorder immediately and will be released on September 19, three years after the previous model. The earbu...
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Ex-OpenAI, Google Brain Team Raises $300M for AI Startup
Periodic Labs, founded by former OpenAI and Google Brain researchers, has raised $300 million to use AI for automating material science, integrating simulations, robotics, and large language models to propose, create, and analyze new compounds. The company's approach leverages AI to learn from al...
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Codi's AI Agent Transforms Office Management
Codi has launched the first fully automated AI platform for office management, which evolved from its initial marketplace model for flexible workspaces and is backed by $23 million in funding, including a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The platform automates day-to-day operational tas...
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Meta CTO Reveals Real Reason Smart Glasses Demos Failed (Not Wi-Fi)
Meta's smart glasses demos at the Connect conference experienced technical glitches, initially mistaken for Wi-Fi issues but later attributed to deeper system errors. A cooking demo failed due to a resource allocation error that overloaded the system, while a WhatsApp call glitch resulted from a ...
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Nvidia Shatters Sales Records Amid Surging AI Boom
Nvidia reported record-breaking quarterly revenue of $46.7 billion, driven by a 56% surge in data center sales due to soaring AI infrastructure demand. The company's net income rose 59% to $26.4 billion, with the new Blackwell AI platform contributing significantly to data center revenue. Despite...
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OpenAI's Atlas: ChatGPT's Power, Not the Web
OpenAI's Atlas browser aims to establish ChatGPT as the central hub for information retrieval, targeting its 800 million weekly users and challenging Google's dominance by making AI-generated responses the primary search method. The browser integrates ChatGPT deeply with features like a floating ...
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Pinterest Lets You Limit AI Content in Your Feed
Pinterest has introduced new user controls allowing individuals to limit AI-generated content in their feeds, addressing concerns over "AI slop" degrading the platform's experience. The platform is enhancing AI content labels and enabling users to reduce visibility of synthetic imagery in specifi...
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OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas: The AI Browser Is Here
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-driven browser that directly competes with Google and other search platforms, initially available on macOS with plans for wider release and free access for all users. The browser integrates ChatGPT as its core technology, featuring a sidebar chatbot for co...
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Waymo robotaxi investigated for driving around school bus
The NHTSA is investigating a Waymo autonomous vehicle for allegedly failing to stop for a school bus with activated red lights in Atlanta, raising concerns about its compliance with traffic safety laws. Waymo attributed the incident to a sensor failure that missed the bus's signals and has since ...
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OpenAI Launches More Powerful AI Models for Developers
OpenAI introduced new AI models including GPT-5 Pro for high-accuracy sectors, Sora 2 for advanced video generation, and a cost-effective voice model to expand its developer ecosystem. The Sora 2 video model offers enhanced realism, synchronized audio, and greater creative control, allowing devel...
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Opera Neon: The AI-Powered Browser Is Here
Opera Neon is a new AI-driven browser that enables application creation through AI prompts and reusable cards, now available in an invite-only phase with a $19.99 monthly subscription. It features tools like a standard chatbot, Neon Do for task assistance, and the ability to generate code snippet...
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OpenAI Launches Sora: A TikTok Rival with New AI Model
OpenAI has launched Sora 2, an advanced AI model for generating audio and video, and a social media app that allows users to create and share personalized videos in a feed similar to short-form video services. Sora 2 improves upon previous models by simulating accurate physics to produce more rea...
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Libby's New AI Feature Sparks Debate Among Readers
Libby has launched an AI-powered "Inspire Me" tool to provide personalized book recommendations from a library's digital collection, aiming to help users discover and borrow available titles quickly. The feature has faced criticism from some librarians and users who are concerned about AI replaci...
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Life360 Launches GPS Pet Tracker to Keep Your Pets Safe
Life360 has launched a specialized GPS tracker for pets, attaching to collars for real-time location updates to help owners monitor their dogs and cats. The device offers advanced features like geofencing, escape alerts, and access to a community network for locating lost pets, with a price of $4...
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Adobe launches custom generative AI foundry for enterprises
Adobe has launched Adobe AI Foundry, a platform that enables businesses to create custom generative AI models for generating text, images, videos, and 3D scenes while maintaining brand consistency and protecting intellectual property. The service is built on Adobe's Firefly AI models and uses a u...
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UK Banking License for Revolut Delayed Over Risk Concerns
The Bank of England has delayed Revolut's full UK banking license, requiring the company to strengthen its risk management systems before final approval due to concerns over its rapid global expansion. Securing a full license would allow Revolut to offer lending services and accept deposits over ...
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Perplexity's Comet AI Browser Goes Free; Max Users Gain Background Assistant
Perplexity has launched its free Comet browser globally, featuring a sidecar assistant that helps with answering questions, summarizing content, and navigating web pages to compete with browsers like Google Chrome and AI-driven alternatives. Free users gain access to the sidecar assistant and int...
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YouTube Unveils New Creator Tools: AI Dubs, Likeness Protection & More
YouTube has launched likeness detection to help creators identify and manage unauthorized use of their facial likeness, protecting against impersonation. The platform introduced Ask Studio, an AI chatbot for personalized creator support, and enhanced the Inspiration tab with AI-generated topic su...
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Create AI Images on Snapchat with Just Text Prompts
Snapchat has launched the Imagine Lens, a new feature for Snapchat+ Platinum and Lens+ subscribers that generates and modifies images based on text prompts. This tool allows users to create original visuals or alter existing snaps with custom or pre-loaded prompts, offering enhanced creative cont...
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Amazon's Lens Live: AI-Powered Real-World Shopping Tool
Amazon has launched Lens Live, an advanced visual search tool that uses real-time camera overlays to identify and explore products in the user's surroundings. The feature supports comparison shopping by displaying matching or similar Amazon products, with options to add items directly to the cart...
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Snapchat's First Free AI Lens Launches in the US
Snapchat has made its AI-powered "Imagine Lens" free for all U.S. users, allowing them to generate or alter images using text prompts, after previously limiting it to subscribers. The decision to offer the feature for free is a competitive response to AI advancements from rivals like Meta and Ope...
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Oura's New App Redesign and Cumulative Stress Feature
Oura's app update introduces a new design with personalized tabs for daily insights, vitals, and long-term health management, including features like "Habits" and "Routines" to link behaviors to wellness. A groundbreaking Cumulative Stress feature measures stress over time using physiological fac...
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Einride Secures $100M to Advance Self-Driving Truck Technology
Einride secured a $100 million investment to expand its autonomous and electric freight solutions, with backing from EQT Ventures and a strategic investment from IonQ, though the company's valuation remains undisclosed. The funding will support growth under new CEO Rozzbeh Charli, scaling electri...
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Adobe Premiere Pro Now Available on iPhone
Adobe Premiere Pro has launched for iPhones, offering professional editing tools with a free version and plans for an Android release. The app includes features like multi-track 4K HDR editing, background noise reduction, and AI tools for generating audio and images, though some AI features requi...
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Honda, Astrobotic Partner to Power Moon Through Lunar Night
Honda and Astrobotic are partnering to address the challenge of generating continuous power during the lunar night by integrating Honda's regenerative fuel cell system with Astrobotic's LunaGrid solar network. Honda's technology uses solar energy to produce hydrogen during the lunar day, which is...
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Amazon's AI Glasses for Delivery Drivers Now Available
Amazon has launched AI-powered smart glasses for delivery drivers to provide a hands-free experience, displaying critical information like navigation and package scanning directly in their field of view. The glasses automate tasks such as locating packages and guiding drivers to exact addresses, ...
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Fal AI Valued at $4 Billion in Latest Funding Round
Fal AI raised $250 million in a funding round valuing the company at $4 billion, with major investors including Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia, following a $125 million Series C round just three months prior. The company's rapid growth is driven by high market demand for multimodal AI capabilities, ...
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Yelp's AI Now Shows You Photos of Dishes From Any Menu
Yelp introduced an AI feature that lets users point their phone camera at a menu to instantly view photos and reviews for each dish, enhancing decision-making with interactive overlays. The app's AI assistant now answers questions about various businesses using gathered data, remembers user prefe...
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Claude Code Now Available on the Web
Anthropic has launched a web version of Claude Code AI, accessible to Pro and Max subscribers, enabling developers to manage multiple AI coding agents directly from their browser. Claude Code's success, with a tenfold user increase and over $500 million in annualized revenue, is attributed to its...
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Tesla Debuts More Affordable Model 3 and Model Y
Tesla has launched more affordable Standard versions of its Model 3 and Model Y, starting at $36,990 and $39,990 respectively, with reduced features to lower the entry price into its ecosystem. These Standard models offer up to 321 miles of range but exclude key features like the full Autopilot s...
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Nvidia Invests $5B in Intel for AI Chip Partnership
Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel to form a strategic partnership, aiming to co-develop data center and PC hardware by combining their expertise in AI and high-performance computing. The collaboration includes technical integration using Nvidia's NVLink for faster data transfer and the deve...
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YouTube Launches New AI Tools for Shorts Creators
YouTube has launched new AI tools for Shorts creators, including a specialized Veo 3 Fast model for low-latency video generation with synchronized audio, initially available in select countries. The tools enable animating still images by transferring motion from videos, applying visual styles, an...
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iPhone 17: The Thinnest iPhone Ever & All New Hardware Expected
Apple's fall event on September 9 is expected to introduce the iPhone 17 series, new Apple Watches, and AirPods, marking the start of a three-year redesign strategy that may lead to a foldable iPhone by 2026. The iPhone 17 lineup includes significant updates such as a larger 6.3-inch display with...
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California Uber and Lyft Drivers Secure Path to Unionization
California has reached a landmark agreement enabling app-based drivers to unionize, reshaping the gig economy and potentially lowering consumer costs. The deal introduces legislation allowing drivers to advocate for better pay, protections, and benefits, while reducing insurance burdens on compan...
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