Topic: tech events
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GITEX GLOBAL: Dubai's Innovation Hub Expands
GITEX GLOBAL and Expand North Star are relocating to Dubai Expo City in 2026, marking a strategic reinvention to align with global tech advancements and enhance the event experience. The move includes a permanent shift to a winter schedule during Dubai's peak tourism season and unifies the events...
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GITEX Expands to Latin America, Fuels $950B Digital Boom
Latin America's digital economy is projected to reach nearly $950 billion by 2026, with GITEX launching its inaugural Latin American edition in São Paulo in 2027 to accelerate this growth. GITEX LATAM will showcase Brazil as a tech hub, leveraging its digital infrastructure and economic leadershi...
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Ganiga Debuts Waste-Sorting Robots at TechCrunch Disrupt
The global recycling crisis is severe, with only about 10% of plastic recycled, prompting Ganiga Innovation to introduce AI-powered robotic solutions to improve waste sorting efficiency. Ganiga's products include the Hoooly robotic bins and smart lids that use generative AI to automatically separ...
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Affordable Smart Lighting: Upgrade Your Home on a Budget
Smart lighting is now more affordable and accessible, offering an easy entry into home automation for mood setting, energy efficiency, and convenience. Tech updates include the appearance of Hollow Knight: Silksong, an Instagram iPad app, and a new The Office spinoff, alongside insights from Paul...
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SpotitEarly Uses Dogs and AI to Detect Common Cancers
SpotitEarly is developing an at-home breath test for cancer detection that combines the scent-identifying abilities of trained dogs with AI validation for accuracy. In a clinical study, the dogs achieved a 94% accuracy rate in detecting early-stage cancers like breast, colorectal, prostate, and l...
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Cerca Reveals How Gen Z Actually Dates at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Cerca is a dating app designed by Gen Z to foster meaningful connections by leveraging mutual friends and social networks, reducing the anxiety of meeting strangers online. The app limits users to four anonymous swipes per day to combat swiping fatigue and encourages thoughtful decisions, with pr...
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Toyota Invests $1.5 Billion in Mobility Startups
Toyota is investing $1.5 billion in mobility startups through two new funds to support innovation from early concepts to scalable businesses. The automotive industry saw a surge in EV sales before a key tax credit expired, with Tesla reporting record deliveries, but now faces challenges sustainin...
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Nscale Partners with Microsoft on Major AI Infrastructure Deal
Nscale has partnered with Microsoft to deploy nearly 200,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs across data centers in Europe and the U.S., significantly expanding AI infrastructure and establishing Nscale as a key global player. The deployment includes 104,000 GPUs in Texas, 12,600 in Portugal, and additional un...
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Enterprises Are All-In on AI, Ready or Not
Businesses are rapidly adopting AI for enterprise applications, with companies like Zendesk, Anthropic, and Google launching new tools and partnerships that offer immediate revenue opportunities. The technology faces challenges, as seen in Deloitte's incident with AI-generated inaccuracies, highl...
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Paid AI raises $21M seed to bill clients only for results
Manny Medina's new startup Paid has raised $33.3 million in total funding, achieving a valuation over $100 million, with its seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Paid introduces a results-based billing platform for AI agents, allowing developers to charge clients based on the tangible v...
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OpenAI Acquires Xcode Assistant Alex Codes Team
The team behind Alex Codes, a tool that integrated AI into Apple's Xcode, is joining OpenAI's Codex division in a strategic acqui-hire. The move follows Apple's update allowing external AI model integration in Xcode, which reduced the need for third-party tools like Alex Codes. Alex Codes will co...
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Meet Your Laptop's Auto-Adjusting Stand: Lift, Tilt & Turn
Lenovo's Smart Motion Concept is an innovative laptop stand that automatically adjusts its position to maintain an optimal ergonomic viewing angle by tracking the user's movements. The stand includes practical features such as built-in cooling fans, a USB hub for connectivity, and is powered exte...
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Salesforce Launches Agentforce 360 Amid Enterprise AI Race
Salesforce has launched Agentforce 360, an upgraded AI platform featuring new tools like Agent Script for flexible agent programming and enhanced Slack integration, set for beta releases in November. The platform incorporates reasoning models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google Gemini to improve r...
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Datacurve Secures $15M to Challenge ScaleAI
Datacurve raised $15 million in Series A funding to provide high-quality, specialized data for AI training, with backing from investors including professionals at DeepMind and OpenAI. The company uses a bounty system to engage software engineers in creating complex datasets, focusing on user expe...
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Anker's Fastest Airline-Approved Power Bank Is Here
Anker's Prime Power Bank (26k, 300W) offers high-capacity charging at 99.75Wh, staying under the TSA's 100Wh carry-on limit, and is available for $229.99 with an initial promotional price of $184. It features dual 140W USB-C ports for fast laptop charging, a 20W USB-A port, and can recharge rapid...
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Meta's Smart Glasses Need a Display
Smart glasses, particularly Meta's collaboration with Ray-Ban, are transitioning from novelty to mainstream adoption due to their stylish design and accessible pricing. Key factors driving their success include improved audio and camera quality, useful AI features, and a cultural shift towards fi...
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Young Founders Raise $5M to Decode Online Behavior with Vision AI
A new startup called Human Behavior uses vision AI to analyze user session replays, providing deeper insights into engagement and behavior without extensive manual coding. The company was founded by three young entrepreneurs who quickly raised $5 million in seed funding from notable backers like ...
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Anthropic's Claude AI Agent Now Integrates Directly in Chrome
Anthropic has launched a Claude AI agent as a Chrome extension for select testers, offering contextual browsing assistance and task automation, with initial access limited to 1,000 premium subscribers. This development is part of a broader industry trend where companies like Google, Perplexity, a...
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YC Alum Cercli Raises $12M for AI-Powered HR Platform in MENA
Cercli, a Dubai-based startup founded by former Careem executives, has raised $12 million in Series A funding to address disconnected enterprise software in MENA with its unified, AI-native platform. The company is undergoing a complete AI-first rebuild, leading to a tenfold revenue surge and pro...
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Too Burned Out to Travel? Fake Your Vacation Photos With This App
Endless Summer is an AI-powered iPhone app that generates fake vacation photos of users in exotic locations, offering an escape from demanding work cultures like the "996" model. The app uses Gemini’s Nano-Banana image-model for creation, includes privacy controls and a paywall after six free ima...
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Jack & Jill Secures $20M to Power AI-Powered Job Search
The current online job market is inefficient, with job seekers struggling to stand out and employers overwhelmed by irrelevant applications, leading to a low signal-to-noise ratio. Jack & Jill, a new platform founded by Matt Wilson, uses conversational AI to transform hiring by creating detailed ...
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Amazon Unveils the Next-Gen Echo Studio
Amazon has launched its next-generation Echo Studio smart speaker, representing the first major hardware update since the original debuted six years ago. The original Echo Studio was highly praised for its audio quality and received software enhancements over time, including improved sound and sp...
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SoundCloud Adds Social Feature to See What Friends Like
SoundCloud is introducing new social discovery tools to help users connect through shared music, enhancing community interaction and competing with services like Spotify. Key features include "Liked By Your Crew" and "Liked By Playlists," which aggregate liked songs and playlists from followed us...
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Better Tomorrow Ventures Raises $140M, Betting Big on Fintech
Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $140 million for its third fund to invest in early-stage financial technology companies, believing the massive financial services sector is still undergoing significant digital transformation. The firm is focusing on disrupting the accounting industry due to a ...
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Vibe-Coding Startup Anything Hits $100M Valuation After $2M ARR Launch
Vibe coding, which uses AI tools to build applications via simple prompts, is rapidly growing, with companies like Lovable and Replit achieving massive revenue increases in under a year. Despite their success, these platforms often struggle to help users launch fully functional, production-ready ...
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2025 Tech Layoffs: The Complete List
The technology sector has seen over 22,000 layoffs in 2025, continuing a trend from 2024 when more than 150,000 jobs were cut, highlighting the human impact of corporate restructuring amid a shift toward AI and automation. Major companies like xAI, Rivian, Oracle, and Salesforce conducted signifi...
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AI Code Review Startup CodeRabbit Hits $550M Valuation After $60M Raise
Harjot Gill founded CodeRabbit to address the increased code review bottlenecks caused by the rise of AI-generated code, which often contains bugs. CodeRabbit has achieved rapid growth with 20% monthly expansion, over $15 million in annual recurring revenue, and recently secured $60 million in Se...
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Dubai Launches AI Platform and Unicorn 30 Plan
Dubai has approved a suite of AI initiatives, including the AI Infrastructure Empowerment Platform and Unicorn 30 Program, to accelerate its technological adoption and strengthen its global leadership in the digital economy. The AI Infrastructure Empowerment Platform will provide government entit...
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Spotify and Netflix Partner on Video Podcasts
Spotify will launch video podcasts on Netflix starting early 2026, beginning in the U.S. and expanding globally, featuring content from Spotify Studios and The Ringer across genres like sports and true crime. The partnership is part of Spotify's strategic shift toward video content to enhance adv...
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Nexos.ai Secures $30M to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption
Nexos.ai raised $30 million in Series A funding, valuing the company at $350 million, to support its mission of enabling secure enterprise AI adoption by acting as a trusted intermediary platform. The platform addresses data security concerns by providing a neutral bridge between employees and AI...
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Veeam Buys Securiti AI in $1.7 Billion Data Security Deal
Veeam has acquired Securiti AI for $1.725 billion to enhance data management and protection, integrating its technology into Veeam's data resilience solutions by early December. The acquisition aligns with Veeam's strategy to expand its capabilities in data security and AI readiness, following a ...
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Meta and Arm team up to accelerate AI development
Meta is partnering with Arm to transition its AI infrastructure to Arm's Neoverse platform, aiming to scale AI systems efficiently for billions of users. The collaboration focuses on combining Arm's energy-efficient computing with Meta's AI innovations to support massive data center expansions, i...
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Wave Function Ventures Raises $15M for Deep Tech Fund
Wave Function Ventures raised $15.1 million for its inaugural deep tech fund, focusing on early-stage investments in sectors like nuclear energy, robotics, and aerospace. Founder Jamie Gull leverages his engineering background from SpaceX and Scaled Composites, along with angel investing experien...
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Nothing's AI Tool Builds Mini Apps From Prompts
Nothing has launched Playground, an AI-driven platform that lets users create widgets and small apps from text prompts for its Essential Apps ecosystem. The company secured $200 million in funding to pursue AI-integrated software and hardware, aiming to innovate where larger brands have been slow...
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The Truth Behind the AI Data Center Boom
Major tech companies like Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank are investing hundreds of billions of dollars to build a new generation of AI data centers, adding gigawatts of power to the grid. OpenAI's new autonomous feature, Pulse, which creates personalized morning briefings, is limited to Pro...
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Huxe: The Audio-Powered App for News and Research
Huxe is an audio-first app that delivers personalized news and research through dynamic briefings and AI-hosted simulated podcasts, designed for hands-free consumption. The startup, founded by former Google engineers, secured $4.6 million in funding and pivoted to focus on audio after observing u...
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Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Now Last Twice as Long
The new Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses double the battery life to eight hours and feature an improved charging case for extended use. Enhanced video capabilities include 3K recording and upcoming software updates for hyperlapse and slow-motion modes. Audio improvements add conversation focus and expa...
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Space DOTS Secures $1.5M Seed Funding to Track Orbital Threats
Bianca Cefalo founded Space DOTS to address the slow pace of corporate innovation in the space sector, focusing on identifying and interpreting orbital threats. The company's SKY-I software platform provides real-time data and analysis to help spacecraft operators detect and attribute both natura...
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Get Your Weekly AI-Powered Playlist on Amazon Music Every Monday
Amazon Music has launched a new AI-generated playlist called "Weekly Vibe" for U.S. subscribers, updated every Monday to reflect recent listening habits and preferences. The feature aims to combat playlist fatigue by analyzing user behavior to mix favorite tracks with new, personalized song recom...
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Vocal Image: AI-Powered Tools for Better Communication
Vocal Image is an Estonia-based startup offering an AI-powered app that helps users improve their voice and communication skills through interactive exercises and personalized feedback, with over 4 million downloads and significant revenue growth. The company was inspired by CEO Nick Lahoika's pe...
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Europe's Unicorn Boom: Over 10 Startups Hit $1B in 2025
Europe's startup scene is experiencing a significant rise in unicorn companies, with over ten ventures reaching billion-dollar valuations in the first half of 2025, reflecting strong investor confidence. These high-value startups span cutting-edge sectors such as artificial intelligence, biotechn...
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Who Needs an AI Browser?
OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser has sparked debate about replacing traditional browsers, but podcast panelists remain unconvinced due to practical limitations and unproven benefits for everyday use. Early users report minimal efficiency gains from AI browsers, with tasks like automated shopping be...
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Meta AI's 'Vibes' Video Feed Sparks User Surge
Meta AI's mobile app experienced a dramatic surge in daily active users, jumping from 775,000 to 2.7 million in one month, alongside a rise in daily installs to 300,000. The introduction of the Vibes feed, which offers short-form AI-generated videos, is a key factor driving this growth, aligning ...
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Instagram's Adam Mosseri addresses AI fears, says society must adapt
AI tools are significantly lowering barriers to content creation, enabling more individuals to produce high-quality work, but they also pose risks of misuse by malicious actors. Mosseri views AI as a tool for enhancing and increasing creator output rather than replacing large-scale productions, c...
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Earthmover Aims to Be the Snowflake for Weather and Location Data
Earthmover shifted its focus from general Earth observation data to weather data and its immediate applications, recognizing the need for frequently updated information to address climate impacts on daily operations. The company's core product is a sophisticated data structure and tool suite that...
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How AI Startups Are Powering Google Cloud's Massive Growth
Google Cloud is rapidly growing, driven by partnerships with AI startups like Lovable and Windsurf, positioning it as a key infrastructure provider and narrowing the gap with competitors like AWS and Azure. The division has achieved a $50 billion annual run rate and projects significant future re...
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Nuclearn Secures $10.5M to Bring AI to Nuclear Industry
The nuclear energy sector is adopting AI to enhance operational efficiency, particularly in optimizing administrative workflows and documentation, though it is not yet trusted to directly control reactors. Nuclearn, a startup, secured $10.5 million in Series A funding and deploys AI tools across ...
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Datadog's Updog Tool Instantly Detects App Downtime
Datadog's Updog is a free public dashboard that monitors real-time status of major cloud services like AWS and Slack, enabling quick verification of service disruptions without a subscription. The tool uses artificial intelligence to analyze telemetry data, detecting subtle anomalies and providin...
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Connect with Fellow Travelers on Airbnb's New Social Feature
Airbnb has introduced social networking features that allow travelers to connect with others during shared Experiences and stay in touch through a new Connections tab on their profiles. The platform has enhanced its search functionality with tools that suggest properties just outside user criteri...
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Waymo to Launch London Robotaxi Service in 2026
Waymo will launch a commercial robotaxi service in London in 2026, pending regulatory approval, as part of its global expansion after Tokyo and recent US cities. The service will use all-electric Jaguar I-Pace vehicles, starting with human safety drivers and progressing to fully driverless operat...
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