Topic: tech news coverage
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ChatGPT reaches 1 billion monthly users, fastest ever
OpenAI's ChatGPT surpassed 1 billion monthly active users in May, just three years after its public debut. According to Sensor Tower, ChatGPT is now the fastest application in history to reach this milestone. This achievement is rare, as most apps spend years trying to reach 1 billion users and m...
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent to finish the job
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that executes tasks directly within users' apps and files rather than just providing answers or instructions. The agent handles complex, multi-stage workflows by staying engaged for hours, revisiting steps, and adjusting based on new information. This...
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Amazon's Big Spring Sale cuts Apple tech prices
Several key Apple products, including AirTags, the Apple Watch SE, and the M4 iPad Air, have reached record-low prices during the Amazon Big Spring Sale, matching or beating competitor deals. The AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation and the Apple Watch SE 3 are available at significant discou...
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Microsoft retires Clippy-like Mico as Copilot’s face
Microsoft is retiring Mico, the animated yellow avatar used in Copilot's voice mode, and relocating it to its Learn Live platform, where it will have "more to react to." Mico, introduced last October to give Copilot a distinct identity, joins retired Microsoft assistants like Clippy and Cortana; ...
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Luggage maker’s filing pegs DeepSeek at $52 billion
A Chinese luggage manufacturer, Anhui Korrun, disclosed in a stock-exchange filing that its stake in DeepSeek implies the AI startup is valued at approximately $52 billion, providing the most concrete public valuation of the company. DeepSeek has been private about its financials, making Korrun's...
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NVIDIA NVentures invests in quantum startup Alice & Bob
Alice & Bob, a quantum hardware startup specializing in fault-tolerant cat-qubit technology, has secured investment from Nvidia's venture arm NVentures as part of an extension to its Series B funding round. The partnership expands the startup's existing collaboration with Nvidia around the CUDA-Q...
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AI coworker startup Viktor raises $75M from Accel for Slack, Teams integration
Viktor, a startup founded by former Meta engineers, raised $75 million in Series A funding led by Accel, just ten weeks after reaching $15 million in annualized recurring revenue. The company builds AI coworker agents that integrate directly into Slack and Microsoft Teams, allowing users to autom...
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Google Search rolls out its biggest-ever set of changes
Google Search has undergone a major transformation with a reimagined search box that seamlessly integrates traditional results with advanced AI features, including easier navigation between AI Overviews and AI Mode. The new Gemini 3.5 Flash model powers a more intelligent search box that expands ...
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Microsoft quietly searches for OpenAI alternative
Microsoft is actively seeking alternative AI partnerships to reduce its dependency on OpenAI, with a strategy led by AI executive Mustafa Suleyman to diversify its AI supply chain. The company attempted to partner with AI coding startup Cursor but talks collapsed due to conflicts with Microsoft's...
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White Circle nabs $11M seed for AI production control
White Circle secured an $11 million seed round from senior executives at OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and other tech firms, and has already processed over one billion API requests for clients including two of the world's largest digital banks. The startup provides a platform for runtime governanc...
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AI Reporters Are Breaking Major News Stories
RuntimeWire, an automated AI newsroom run by Ryan Merket, beat human journalists to break a story about OpenAI's hacking incident at Black Hat by publishing a live-stream transcript within six minutes, highlighting AI's speed advantage in news reporting. The operation costs about $100 daily and h...
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Apple's iPhone-Windows copy-paste feature in development
Apple is developing a cross-platform clipboard feature for EU users, enabling copy-paste between iPhones and Windows PCs in both directions, following a Microsoft interoperability request. The development stems from the EU Digital Markets Act, which pressures Apple to open its systems to third-pa...
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Lenovo’s upcoming tablet adds a speaker bump and better kickstand
Lenovo's Tab Plus Gen 2 adds a ninth speaker housed in a large circular bump, increasing the tablet's maximum thickness to 22.7mm, and integrates a 360-degree rotating kickstand for portrait and landscape use. The device continues Lenovo's strategy of prioritizing audio performance over a slim pr...
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Claude Fable refuses to answer basic biology questions
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, billed as its most capable AI with advanced biology knowledge, is deliberately programmed to refuse answering basic biology questions that any high school student could handle. Instead of responding, Fable automatically passes such simple queries to Claude Opus 4.8, An...
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DDR5 Memory Prices Drop After Months, Google TurboQuant Cited
DDR5 memory prices have begun a notable decline this week, offering relief to consumers after a period of steady increases, with significant drops seen in specific high-capacity kits. A key catalyst for the price drop is the recent announcement of Google's TurboQuant algorithm, a KV cache compres...
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Google Pixel 11 deal: save up to $175 with this offer
Google has launched a new Play Points perk offering up to $175 off Pixel 11 series devices and the Pixel Watch 5, with discounts varying by user account (e.g., $125–$150 off Pixel 11 models, $175 off the Fold, $60 off the watch). The savings are accessed via the Play Store app under the Play Poin...
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River AI raises $1.1B for private AI model training
River AI raised $1.1 billion just four months after incorporation, in a round co-led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with strategic participation from NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek. The startup, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, enables enterprises to train proprietary...
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Google reshuffles leadership: Jeff Dean out, Demis Hassabis shifts role
Jeff Dean, a foundational Google engineer for 27 years, is leaving to found Discover Loop, an AI startup focused on drug discovery and chip design, with several key researchers following him. Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind to become its chair and Alphabet chief scientis...
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Google Earth's AI deepfake feature pulled after one day
Google removed a Google Earth feature launched Thursday that used AI text prompts to reshape satellite imagery, enabling users to create realistic deepfakes of real-world locations. Critic Henk van Ess demonstrated misuse by fabricating scenes like refugees at the Mexican border and a bomb crater...
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Onyx Raises $113M to Keep Humans in the Loop as AI Agents Run Enterprises
Onyx Security raised $113 million in Series B funding at a $640 million valuation to build a human-in-the-loop control plane for enterprise AI governance. The platform acts as a centralized command center where human managers can review, approve, or override AI agent decisions in real time to pre...
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