Topic: tech partnerships
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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