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AI / The Verge ·
In many circles, "Ask Chat" has replaced "Google it," and that's reflected in a new announcement from OpenAI: the volume of search queries run through ChatGPT now equals 20 percent of the volume run through Google. Adam Fry, OpenAI's consumer product lead for ChatGPT, made the announcement at a…
Business / Fortune ·
Adaptation pays three to one. Why isn’t it funded?
Tech / The Verge ·
Reddit is testing ads on another area of its platform: search. With this update, ads will appear within your search results "based on a range of factors, including contextual relevance to a search query," according to Reddit. That means searching for "espresso station" could present you with ads for…
Startups / Sifted ·
Tech / The Next Web ·
Fourthline chief executive Paul Stoddart will run the identity verification group formed by his company’s merger with Spain’s Veridas, which closed on Tuesday. The two companies first announced the deal on 16 July. The combined company checks the identities of customers for banks and other regulated…
AI / The Verge ·
Many indie game developers have recently posted on social media about unexpectedly long approval wait times for their game submissions on Steam, with some of the approvals causing developers to miss their planned launch dates. For example, Studio Daimon, the team behind an upcoming title called Food…
Tech / The Verge ·
If you’re looking for a good smart speaker, the Google Home Speaker is down to around $79 ($20 off) in all four colors at Best Buy, Walmart, and Target. That’s the best price we’ve seen for the Gemini-powered speaker, which launched in June and represents Google’s first smart speaker in several…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Samsung will use its second chip plant in Taylor, Texas, to make parts for AMD and Nvidia’s AI memory, South Korea’s Maeil Business Newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing industry sources. The plant will produce base dies for high-bandwidth memory, the logic layer that sits at the bottom of the…
Tech / The Next Web ·
In commercial real estate, speed can make or break a deal. Offers move in hours and capital moves in seconds, yet legal paperwork can still take weeks. Athena is changing that. The company has raised a $2.5 million pre-seed round led by a16z Speedrun. Athena’s proprietary AI agents work alongside…
Business / Fortune ·
Agentic AI reopens who gets what from an exchange.
AI / The Verge ·
Netflix's TV app is getting a new "AI Discover" tab where the company will show experimental, AI-powered features to help you find new shows and movies to watch. The first of these experiments surfaces content based around themes, like "Something Light," "Family Movie Night," or "Quick Watches."…
Business / Fortune ·
BCG estimates companies would cover $1.8 trillion a year by 2030.
Tech / The Next Web ·
CrowdStrike has agreed to buy two AI security companies, Fiddler AI and Dreadnode. It announced both on Tuesday at its Fal.Con Europe conference in Barcelona. Fiddler tracks what AI agents do and why. Dreadnode tests AI models, applications and agents for weaknesses before they go live.…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Reddit has asked Australia’s High Court to strike down the country’s world-first ban on under-16s holding social media accounts, arguing that the law is unconstitutional. The first legal challenge to the legislation opened in Canberra this week, Reuters reported. Reddit and a libertarian advocacy…
Startups / Sifted ·
Startups / EU-Startups ·
Viridi, a British DeepTech that enables the transformation of waste carbon dioxide into chemical products, has closed a €2.6 million (£2.2 million) round to scale their technology, strengthen its team and support its expansion into Asia and the US. The round was led by Odyssey Ventures, with…
AI / The Decoder ·
Anthropic introduces Message Threads for the Messages API. Instead of resending the entire conversation with every turn, agents now only send new messages. For requests with 500,000 to one million tokens, time to first token drops by about 35 percent. The article Anthropic's Message Threads cut time…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Apple is developing a tabletop home robot that could cost around $1,000, The Information reported on Monday. It would put a 9-inch screen on a swivelling robotic arm. Apple is aiming for a 2027 launch, but the device may not be ready until 2028, Aaron Tilley wrote. Apple’s codename for the device is…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Google’s Gemini chatbot may infringe EU copyright rules when it uses press articles to generate answers, an adviser to the bloc’s highest court said on Tuesday. The opinion draws a distinction between training AI models on copyrighted material and reproducing publishers’ work in the responses they…
Tech / The Verge ·
Originally released in early 2025 as an accessory for the iPad, Moft has redesigned its Dynamic Folio as a case for the iPhone Duo that does more than just protect Apple's folding phone. You can use it to prop the Duo up at several different angles for hands-free use, or reconfigure the Dynamic…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Zalando beat sales expectations in the third quarter and introduced its first AI-powered shopping tool, but investors focused on weaker margins. Shares in Europe’s largest online fashion retailer fell around 5% on Tuesday despite the stronger-than-expected revenue. Revenue rose 5.1% year on year…
AI / The Decoder ·
Nvidia has told some cloud customers to take on less business from Chinese companies. The article Nvidia pushes cloud customers to cut back on China business appeared first on The Decoder.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Apple expects its gross margin to fall to between 45% and 46% in the holiday quarter, from 47.9%, as memory chip prices rise. Apple gave the forecast on its earnings call on Monday. Its earnings release, the first under chief executive John Ternus, showed record September-quarter revenue of…
Tech / The Verge ·
Microsoft is about to launch its new Xbox Nano controller tomorrow, and the tiny device has a little secret. The Nano can connect directly to Xbox Cloud Gaming over Wi-Fi to improve latency. It's a feature Microsoft hasn't officially announced yet, but one I've been anticipating since the Xbox…