Topic: partnerships
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Meta launches cheaper smart glasses under its own brand
Meta launched its own branded smart glasses starting at $299, developed with EssilorLuxottica, featuring a camera, personal speakers, and a customizable button for the Meta AI assistant. The glasses offer over eight hours of battery life per charge, with an additional 40 hours from the charging c...
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AI Startup Helps Rice Farmers Fight Climate Change
Mitti Labs uses AI and satellite technology to measure and reduce methane emissions from rice farming, a major source of this potent greenhouse gas. The company partners with organizations like The Nature Conservancy to promote sustainable farming practices in India, providing financial incentive...
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Edtech startup raises $4.5M to teach students vibe coding
Imagi, co-founded by Dora Palfi, raised a $4.5 million seed round to expand its K-12 platform teaching coding, basic computer skills, and AI literacy, with safety and compliance features like COPPA, FERPA, and GDPR. A partnership with vibe coding tool Lovable, supported by $1 million in OpenAI cr...
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Robot.com bets on wheeled humanoids for kitchens, warehouses
Robot.com is pivoting from campus delivery bots to launch "R-noid", a wheeled humanoid robot for kitchens and warehouses that handles order packaging, loading, and workstation preparation, leveraging partnerships with AI lab Physical Intelligence and navigation firm FieldAI. R-noid uses a holon...
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Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and focus over expansion
Uber is expanding beyond ride-hailing and food delivery into travel, financial services, and autonomous vehicle data collection, positioning itself as a potential "everything app." The company's new AV Labs unit equips hundreds of sensor-equipped vehicles to collect driving data, serving as both ...
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Electric Air Taxis Take Flight, But Still No Passengers
Joby Aviation completed a historic but empty test flight of its electric air taxi from JFK to Manhattan in 14 minutes, though the company still awaits final FAA certification before launching passenger services. While the FAA has been cautious, Joby plans to launch its first commercial passenger ...
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OpenAI Debuts New Codex Tools for White-Collar Jobs
OpenAI released six specialized plug-ins for its Codex platform targeting roles in data analytics, sales, design, and investment banking, aiming to expand beyond its developer base. Codex now has over 5 million weekly active users, with knowledge workers representing 20% of users and growing thre...
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The Future of Drive-Thrus: Chatbots Are Only the Start
Fast-food chains like McDonald's, Wendy's, and Taco Bell initially expanded AI-powered ordering systems to reduce employee workload and wait times, but customer reception has been poor, with a 2025 survey showing 55% of Americans prefer human order-takers. Credibility issues have plagued the tech...
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Meta Connect 2025: Ray-Bans 2, Hypernova & Oakley Smart Glabs Revealed
Meta Connect 2024 highlighted new AI-powered wearables, including upgraded smart glasses and the gesture-controlled Meta Neural Band wrist accessory. Key product launches featured the Meta Ray-Ban Display with a waveguide projection, the Ray-Ban 2 with extended battery and 3K video, and the sport...
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DoorDash expands into drone delivery
DoorDash launched DoorDash Air, a drone delivery division developing custom unmanned aircraft, after securing FAA Part 135 certification to legally operate commercial drone deliveries in the U.S. The service will start with small-scale, line-of-sight pilot programs, while scaling to longer autono...
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Uber enters hotel business with AI-powered platform
Uber is expanding its services by allowing US customers to book hotel rooms directly in its app, partnering with Expedia Group to offer access to over 700,000 hotels worldwide, with Vrbo rentals coming later this year. Uber One members receive a 20% discount on a rotating selection of 10,000 hote...
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Applied Computing builds AI model for entire oil and gas plants
Applied Computing, a London-based startup building an AI foundation model for the oil, gas, and petrochemical industry, has raised $20 million in Series A funding from KBR and Databricks Ventures. Its foundation model, Orbital, combines time series, physics-based, and language models to analyze s...
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Maka Kids redefines screen time with a well-being focused streaming app
Maka Kids is a new streaming app for children ages zero to six that prioritizes child well-being over engagement, avoiding recommendation algorithms, ads, and auto-play features, and has secured $3 million in seed funding. The platform uses Maka Imprint, a patent-pending developmental framework d...
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Truecaller launches eSIM service to diversify revenue
Truecaller launched a travel eSIM service in 29 countries, with plans ranging from 1 GB for 7 days to 20 GB for 30 days, to diversify revenue amid a 44% decline in ad revenue and a 27% drop in net sales. The service excludes India, Truecaller's largest market, likely due to strict telecom regulat...
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OpenAI Launches Web Browser to Challenge Google
OpenAI has launched Atlas, a new AI-driven web browser that integrates with ChatGPT and moves away from traditional browsing to offer a conversational experience, aiming to monetize AI investments and compete with giants like Google Chrome. The browser is initially available on MacOS with a paid ...
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3 Essential AI Strategies for Business Leaders to Implement Now
Most companies fail to see measurable benefits from AI due to a lack of a clear, actionable strategy, despite increasing pressure to adopt the technology. Organizations with a formal AI strategy are significantly more likely to achieve revenue growth and tangible benefits, yet only a small percen...
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Anthropic acquires second consultancy in 4 months
Ode, an enterprise AI firm launched by Anthropic and Blackstone, acquired Casper Studios, its second consultancy purchase in four months, to accelerate its AI implementation market strategy. Casper specializes in embedding Claude into daily enterprise tools, complementing Ode's custom builds with...
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South Korea's LetinAR develops optics for AI glasses
The smart glasses market is accelerating rapidly, with global AI glasses shipments surging to 8.7 million units in 2025 (up over 300%) and projected to exceed 15 million units in 2026, as major tech companies like Meta, Google, Samsung, and Apple all invest in the category. South Korean startup L...
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Lenovo Googlebook 15 specs leak ahead of launch
The Lenovo Googlebook 15 leak reveals a sleek laptop with a dedicated physical "Gemini key", signaling a strong focus on instant access to Google's AI assistant. The device features an optimized "Android desktop interface" with a windowed, laptop-friendly layout, moving beyond the mobile-firs...
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Satellites on Fire Raises $2.7M for Climate Tech
A climate tech startup founded by Argentine teenagers has secured $2.7 million in seed funding to expand its AI-powered wildfire detection platform into the United States market. The company's software platform aggregates data from multiple satellites and uses AI to analyze heat signatures, detec...
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