I’m de-influencing you from buying the RingConn 3 (even though it’s pretty)
The RingConn 3 actually looks like real jewelry, not a wearable -- but its fitness tracking and headache detection features are disappointing.
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Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius
Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius's compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology.
The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models?
Telegram’s shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov confirmed an outage in a tweet, saying that shortlinks to the messaging app had "stopped working."
Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant
Spotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to discover music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
Medical AI was meant to help. This week it replaced nurses and dodged its own checks
The pitch for medical AI is that it frees clinicians to care for patients. Two stories this week suggest the reality can run the other way. In New York, nurses say software replaced them. In Minnesota, a former Mayo Clinic leader says the software was not safe to trust. Marilyn Shuler spent 39 years reading […]This story continues at The Next Web
Microsoft promised to be carbon negative. Its emissions just jumped 25%
Microsoft promised to be carbon negative by 2030. Its own report shows emissions up 25% in a year instead. The number is worse than it looks, and also more honest than it looks, and the reason for both is the same: AI data centres. Microsoft set one of the boldest climate targets in tech. By […]This story continues at The Next Web
Superhuman’s new auto-draft feature almost makes me like AI replies
Superhuman’s latest AI email drafting feature is its most convincing yet, generating replies that often required little to no editing in our testing.
Uber lost the self-driving race. Now it wants to write the rules
Uber lost the race to build a self-driving car. Now it wants to write the rules for everyone who did. In two US states it is lobbying for laws that would force robotaxis onto its app, and its own product chief is happy to explain why. Uber could not win the race to build a […]This story continues at The Next Web
Meta is pushing brands onto its AI ad tools. The results are a mess
Meta is pushing advertisers to hand their campaigns to its AI. A Business Insider investigation found the tools spitting out gibberish copy, mangled limbs and products that no longer look like the products. Meta’s reply, in effect: that’s your problem. Meta wants brands to let its AI build their ads. A Business Insider investigation shows […]This story continues at The Next Web
Pasqal’s SPAC filings reveal a $2bn French quantum bet, and a French kill switch
France’s Pasqal is heading to Nasdaq at a $2bn valuation, roughly 100 times its revenue. Its own filings spell out two things. Quantum computing might never pay off. And Paris can veto who owns the company. Pasqal, the French quantum-computing firm, is going public in the United States. It is merging with a blank-cheque company, […]This story continues at The Next Web
Flex raises $70m from Ryan Smith’s Halo fund to take its AI private bank global
Six months ago, Flex raised $60m and called it a Series B. On Tuesday it said it had raised another $70m, and rather than move down the alphabet, it settled on a Series B1. The round was led by Halo, the investment firm set up last year by Qualtrics founder Ryan Smith, who owns the […]This story continues at The Next Web
xAI is running 59 unpermitted gas turbines, twice what it has admitted
Emails between regulators and xAI’s consultants put most of the turbines in Southaven, Mississippi. Within five miles on the Tennessee side, about 94% of residents are Black. Ervin Laws lives in Colonial Hills, a neighbourhood in Southaven, Mississippi, where residents say the turbines running around the clock sound like jet engines. “I can’t do anything […]This story continues at The Next Web
Canva launches Code 2.0, offering AI website building to every user — including free accounts
Canva on Tuesday launched Canva Code 2.0, a major upgrade to its AI-powered coding tool that lets users build interactive websites, apps, and experiences using plain-language prompts — and then edit the results as easily as tweaking a Canva presentation. The feature is now available to all of the company's more than 265 million monthly users across every pricing tier, including free accounts.The move is Canva's most aggressive push yet into the fast-growing "vibe coding" mark
1Password moves into AI cost management, betting that token spend is the next enterprise budget crisis
1Password on Tuesday launched AI Spend and Consumption Management, a new capability embedded in its SaaS Manager platform that gives IT and finance teams a unified, real-time view of how their organizations consume and spend on AI services from vendors including Anthropic, Cursor, and OpenAI.The move marks the latest strategic expansion for a company that built its reputation on password management for consumers and, over the past three years, has aggressively repositioned itself as a broader id
Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, and it’s testing London’s new private market to prove it
Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, worth £800m, or $1.1bn. But no fundraise set that price. Staff did, by selling shares on London’s untested new private market. Moneybox, the British savings and investing app, is now a unicorn. It has put a value of about £800m, or $1.1bn, on itself, the Financial Times first reported. The […]This story continues at The Next Web
‘Listing is a must’: China’s LimX raises $200m as the humanoid IPO race heats up
China’s humanoid gold rush just minted another contender. LimX Dynamics has raised $200m at a $2.21bn valuation. And its founder says the race to list has become do-or-die. A Shenzhen humanoid startup has become the latest name in China’s robot boom to command a giant valuation. On Tuesday, LimX Dynamics said it had closed a […]This story continues at The Next Web
ECB names 36 payment firms for the digital euro pilot
Deutsche Bank, UniCredit, Revolut, Stripe and Adyen made the list. The 12-month trial starts in the second half of 2027, and the money it moves will not be legal tender. The European Central Bank published the list on Tuesday: 36 payment service providers, drawn from more than 50 applicants, will run the first pilot of […]This story continues at The Next Web
Pinwheel launches a retro-inspired landline phone for kids
Kid-friendly tech company Pinwheel announced the launch of a new landline phone designed to let children stay connected without the distractions of a smartphone.
Elon Musk's Baby Mama Ashley St. Clair Feels 'Deep Remorse' for Her Past Transphobic Comments After Ending 10-Year MAGA Alliance
Elon Musk's baby mama Ashley St. Clairrecently opened up about her past affiliation with the MAGA movement. The influencer, ...