Topic: tech partnerships
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Wikipedia to License Content to AI Companies
The Wikimedia Foundation has established new paid licensing agreements with major tech firms like Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon, formalizing their use of Wikipedia content to train AI models and creating a revenue stream. These deals, managed through Wikimedia Enterprise, provide structured API acc...
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Samsung and Google Reveal the Future of Smart Glasses
The Samsung Galaxy XR headset, developed in partnership with Samsung and Google, serves as an initial step toward creating everyday smart glasses, blending mixed reality and aiming to compete with products from Meta and others. Its key innovation is deeply integrated AI, like Gemini, which unders...
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Tech Titans and Trump: A Royal Banquet in the UK
The state banquet for President Trump's UK visit highlighted a strategic focus on tech sector collaboration, with leading executives from companies like Nvidia, Apple, and OpenAI in attendance. A new U.S.-U.K. Tech Prosperity Deal was signed to accelerate development in AI, quantum technologies, ...
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Waymo's Vision: Robotaxis as the Future of Public Transit
Waymo and Via are partnering to integrate autonomous vehicles into Chandler, Arizona's public transit system, offering on-demand rides that connect with existing bus routes. The service operates at affordable fixed rates, including discounts for seniors and free rides for students, aiming to broa...
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Google DeepMind's Fusion Energy Partnership Explained
Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Google's DeepMind are collaborating to use AI for optimizing plasma behavior in the Sparc reactor, aiming to achieve stable fusion for emissions-free electricity. Google is strategically involved as both an investor and future customer, seeking sustainable power fo...
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GITEX 2025: AI Revolution in Digital Health and Biosciences
GITEX GLOBAL 2025, scheduled for October 13-17, will highlight AI's transformative role in healthcare, featuring advancements in gene-editing, brain implants, and pharmaceutical research. The event broke attendance records and included discussions on nation-scale AI infrastructures, quantum compu...
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DirecTV to Launch AI-Powered Screensaver Ads
DirecTV is launching an AI-driven screensaver that turns idle screens into personalized, interactive shopping environments, developed with Glance for Gemini devices. The feature allows users to insert their likeness into AI-generated scenes via a QR code and mobile app, with customization through...
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PayPal & OpenAI: Shop Directly in ChatGPT
Starting in 2026, PayPal will integrate with OpenAI's Instant Checkout in ChatGPT, allowing users to make purchases directly within the AI interface using the Agentic Commerce Protocol. PayPal will offer its wallet as a payment method in ChatGPT, providing buyer and seller protection, dispute res...
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Hance demos tiny AI audio software at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Hance is a Norwegian startup developing compact, AI-powered audio processing software that enhances communication in high-stakes environments like Formula One by reducing noise and improving clarity in real-time. The company's key innovation is compressing its models to just 242 kB, enabling on-d...
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Hear Clearly: Voice Isolation for Noisy Environments
Voice-activated AI tools struggle with background noise, prompting Subtle Computing to develop specialized voice isolation technology for clear speech capture in any environment. The startup's unique method involves training device-specific and user-adaptive models, achieving superior performance...
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ICE's Social Media Surveillance: A Digital Panopticon
ICE is deploying an advanced AI-powered surveillance platform from Zignal Labs to monitor billions of social media posts daily, using machine learning and computer vision to identify individuals for deportation. Critics warn this technology threatens democracy and free speech by potentially targe...
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Amazon in $50 Billion Talks to Invest in OpenAI
Amazon is in high-stakes negotiations to invest $50 billion in OpenAI, which could anchor a $100 billion funding round and value OpenAI at $830 billion. This potential investment creates a strategic dynamic as Amazon already has a major partnership and investment in OpenAI's rival, Anthropic, thr...
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Samsung TVs to Get Google Photos & Nano Banana
Samsung plans to integrate Google Photos into its AI TVs by 2026, aiming to transform televisions into active hubs for displaying cherished memories and curated photo stories. The partnership emphasizes nostalgia and shared family experiences, positioning the TV as an emotional enhancement for co...
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Fuzozo: The AI Emotional Companion Unveiled at CES 2026
The Fuzozo is a new AI emotional companion, debuting at CES 2026, that combines agentic AI with a soft, tactile form for physical interaction and constant connectivity. It is designed to be a mobile companion that recognizes its owner, responds to touch and speech with lifelike behaviors like pur...
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Adobe Premiere Mobile Now Integrates YouTube Shorts Creation
Adobe has launched a dedicated "Create for YouTube Shorts" hub within its Premiere mobile app, offering exclusive templates and a streamlined workflow for producing and publishing vertical videos directly to YouTube from a phone. The partnership strategically integrates inspiration with creation,...
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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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AI Shopping Assistants Launch, But Rivals Remain Unfazed
Major AI companies like OpenAI and Perplexity are launching new shopping features in their chatbots, with projections showing a 520% growth in AI-assisted online shopping this holiday season. Specialized AI shopping startups argue their domain-specific data and models provide superior experiences...
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Palmer Luckey's Anduril Debuts EagleEye MR Helmet
Anduril Industries has launched the EagleEye mixed-reality helmet system, integrating AI and sensors with its Lattice platform to enhance soldier capabilities through real-time data and command tools. The system improves situational awareness by displaying live video, detecting threats with rear ...
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Sam Altman's India Visit: AI Leaders Converge in New Delhi
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi is attracting major global AI firms, with OpenAI's Sam Altman planning a visit and private meetings to engage India's crucial market, enterprise customers, and developer community. India is a key growth market for AI, being ChatGPT's largest by downloa...
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Siri Now Powered by Google Gemini
Apple is integrating Google's Gemini AI into Siri, marking a major strategic partnership and a shift from Apple's usual preference for controlling its core technologies. The move aims to make Siri competitive with rivals like ChatGPT by leveraging Google's AI expertise, following Apple's own stru...
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Vay's Remote Driving Tech Could Secure $410M From Grab
German startup Vay secured a $60 million investment from Grab, with potential to grow to $410 million if performance targets are met, aimed at expanding its remote-controlled car rental service in the U.S. Vay's business model uses human operators to remotely deliver rental vehicles, targeting co...
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Microsoft Sentinel's AI Cybersecurity Strategy
Microsoft is enhancing its Sentinel platform with a "graph-based" operational context, enabling real-time threat evaluation and trajectory mapping across interconnected networks. The platform's Security Copilot agents now leverage this graph-based system to automate tasks, prioritize alerts, and ...
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Qualcomm Invests in SpotDraft, Doubling Valuation to $400M for On-Device AI
SpotDraft, a legal tech startup, has secured an $8 million strategic investment from Qualcomm Ventures, doubling its valuation to approximately $380 million since last year. The company addresses enterprise AI adoption barriers in legal services with its VerifAI platform, which performs contract ...
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CES 2026: Nvidia, AMD & Razer's Biggest Reveals
CES 2026 highlighted a major industry shift toward **physical AI**, with robotics and tangible applications moving AI from software into the real world, from construction to home appliances. Major tech firms like **Nvidia** and **AMD** drove key announcements, with Nvidia unveiling its next-gen R...
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Power Up the Grid: Why Software Is the Key
Surging electricity demand, primarily driven by the explosive growth of AI and data centers, is straining the aging electrical grid, creating an opportunity for software solutions to optimize infrastructure. Software startups are addressing this by identifying hidden grid capacity and aggregating...
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San Francisco Aims to Be Emerging Tech's Testbed
San Francisco is positioning itself as a national leader in testing autonomous vehicles and AI, with companies like Waymo, Zoox, and Uber deploying robotaxis as part of the city's economic vision. Mayor Daniel Lurie emphasizes safety as a top priority, noting that state agencies regulate autonomo...
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YouTube's New AI Can Now Detect Your Face
YouTube has launched a likeness-detection tool for its Partner Program creators to combat AI-generated misuse of personal identity, enabling them to identify and manage synthetic face or voice content. The system allows creators to verify their identity via a photo ID and selfie video, then revie...
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OpenAI Updates: Latest News & Key Insights
OpenAI combines nonprofit research with commercial subsidiaries to advance AI responsibly, highlighted by the global impact of ChatGPT's 2022 release. ChatGPT's popularity showcased generative AI's potential, with widespread adoption across industries for tasks like text generation and coding ass...
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Coreweave CEO: AI Circular Deals Are 'Working Together'
Coreweave's CEO defends its volatile post-IPO trajectory as a natural consequence of pioneering a disruptive AI cloud business model, despite stock price fluctuations and a challenging market debut. The company leverages its vast inventory of Nvidia GPUs as collateral to secure financing for rapi...
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Uber Takes the Wheel in the Self-Driving Car Race
Waabi, a self-driving truck company, has secured a major investment led by Uber to expand into the robotaxi sector, challenging established players with a strategy that includes a $750 million initial commitment and a $250 million contingent bonus. Uber is pursuing a broad, multi-partner strategy...
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Edenlux's Eye-Strain Wellness Device Launches in the U.S.
Modern lifestyles with extensive screen use are linked to widespread visual discomfort, prompting South Korean startup Edenlux to launch its Eyeary device in the U.S. as a wellness tool for vision recovery. Edenlux was founded after its CEO's personal vision recovery, and its new Eyeary device is...
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I'd Trust Ikea With My Smart Home After CES 2026
Ikea debuted a comprehensive and competitive proprietary smart home ecosystem at CES 2026, moving beyond its traditional furniture image to target budget-conscious consumers. The launch included the Varmblixt smart lighting line and a highly affordable suite of Matter-compatible security sensors,...
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Snap to Launch Lightweight AR Glasses for Consumers in 2026
Snap plans to launch its next-gen AR glasses, "Specs", for mainstream consumers in 2026, featuring a sleeker design and advanced AR/AI capabilities compared to previous developer-focused models. The "Specs" will include transparent lenses for digital overlays, an AI assistant for real-time ta...
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Oracle Seeks $15 Billion in Major Bond Sale
Oracle is preparing a $15 billion corporate bond sale, which may include an unusual 40-year bond, following its major AI infrastructure partnership with OpenAI. The company recently secured a $300 billion cloud computing deal with OpenAI and is reportedly negotiating another potential $20 billion...
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OpenAI DevDay 2025: What to Expect & How to Watch
OpenAI is hosting its largest DevDay 2025 conference, featuring keynotes from CEO Sam Altman and a fireside chat with designer Jony Ive, alongside major announcements and live demonstrations. The company is expanding beyond its core AI models into new ventures, including a potential AI device, so...
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Apple's Siri Gets a ChatGPT-Style AI Upgrade
Apple is fundamentally overhauling Siri into a sophisticated AI chatbot, integrating it into iPhones and Macs to support both typed and spoken commands, aligning it with competitors. The new chatbot, codenamed "Campos," will use a custom Google Gemini AI model for advanced capabilities and is sla...
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