Saturday, November 7, 2026
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Tech / The Next Web ·
Anthropic launched Personal Finance, a beta that lets US Claude subscribers on Pro, Max and Ultra link bank and card accounts through Plaid and ask about their spending. Claude can read balances and transactions but cannot move money, and the feature has no ads. Anthropic is letting some Claude…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, its AI video model, generally available. It makes 15-second clips, up from 10, lets users edit them over several chat turns and costs 30% less, at about $0.07 a second for 720p video. Google has made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, the latest version of its AI video…
Tech / Wired ·
Get a head start on holiday shopping with discounts on WIRED-tested headphones, laptops, and TVs.
Tech / Ars Technica ·
Software optimizes a physical model of the telescope to reduce noise.
Tech / Wired ·
More than 80 percent of congressional candidates backed by the pro-science PAC 314 Action won, including Michigan senator-elect and epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed.
Tech / Ars Technica ·
Kalshi can't avoid gambling law by claiming it doesn't offer gambling, state AG says.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Google will build its first Wyoming data centre, a $17B investment near Cheyenne. Most of its power will come from natural gas, including a 702 MW fuel cell plant from AEP and Bloom Energy, with carbon capture meant to store most emissions underground. Google will build its first data centre in…
Tech / Ars Technica ·
RFK Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement was in trouble before voting began.
Tech / The Verge ·
The New York Times Company is in talks"exclusive negotations" to acquire Letterboxd, the social network for film lovers, for around $330 million, The New York Times reports. The Times Company, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and A24 were all recently rumored to be among those interested in buying…
Tech / The Next Web ·
SoundCloud is opening a direct publishing route for music made with the ElevenMusic app, the AI music generation platform from ElevenLabs, allowing creators to send AI-generated tracks to the streaming platform without exporting and uploading them manually. Previously, users had to download their…
Tech / The Verge ·
The head of T-Mobile's parent company is casting doubt on SpaceX's plans to make Starlink Mobile a "major" carrier in the US. During an earnings call on Thursday, Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges says he takes the Elon Musk-owned company "super serious," but that it will cost at least $200 billion…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Blue Origin has pushed New Glenn’s return to flight to January 2027, CEO Dave Limp told staff, Bloomberg reports. The rocket has been grounded since it exploded on its only launch pad in May, delaying Amazon Leo satellites and NASA’s Moon plans. Blue Origin has pushed back the return of its New…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Zipline has raised $1.5bn at a $21.5bn valuation, the drone delivery company announced on Thursday. Paradigm, WCM Investment Management and Layer Global led the round. Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity, Uber, Tiger Global, J.P. Morgan, ARK Invest and Salesforce Ventures also invested. On the same day,…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Guardian Life signed a multi-year deal with Sierra to use its AI agents for about 1 million dental benefit verification calls a year, plus payments and claim status checks. It is Guardian’s third AI partnership in a year, after HCLTech and Avantos. US insurer Guardian Life is handing some of its…
Tech / Ars Technica ·
Using a capture card and open source software to run PS5 video through a PC GPU.
Tech / The Next Web ·
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Cyber, a security model it says beats all its earlier models at finding and exploiting software flaws. OpenAI says it also stays within the limits researchers set more reliably. The company announced the model on Thursday. It rated it “Critical” in cybersecurity under its…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Humble Robotics, a San Francisco start-up building self-driving electric freight vehicles, has raised $51m in a Series A round. Obvious Ventures led the round, announced on Thursday, and earlier investors Eclipse and Energy Impact Partners also took part. The new money brings Humble’s total…
Tech / The Verge ·
Salon launched 31 years ago as one of the first online-only news magazine outlets, and it announced today in an unsigned post that it's ceasing publication. The company said that the "business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly over the years," and it decided that…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Shield AI agreed to buy Echodyne, which makes radars for counter-drone systems, for $5.3B. It is raising $2.5B in equity and debt to fund the deal, at a $28.8B valuation. Shield wants Echodyne to help it sell beyond the military, to areas like public safety. Shield AI has agreed to buy radar maker…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Visa has launched an AI shopping benchmark, and in its first round the AI models failed 42.8% of their test runs. The Visa Agentic Commerce Benchmark put 22 AI models from 12 labs through 15 shopping tasks, the company said in a statement on Thursday. The tasks included buying a TV, a laptop and a…
Tech / The Verge ·
A week before the midterm elections, Vice President JD Vance hosted a town hall in Texas with Fox News host Jesse Watters. It was a friendly event with a friendly audience in what should have been a friendly state, and maybe that's why Vance couldn't help himself. When a college student earnestly…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Sony launched the $60 MDR-3R, wired headphones modelled on the pair that shipped with the first Walkman in 1979. They add USB-C, a microphone and a remote. An $80 Stranger Things edition is sold with Netflix, as wired audio makes a comeback. Sony has launched the MDR-3R, a $60 pair of wired…
Tech / Wired ·
Alexis Ohanian is trying to figure out what’s next for user-generated content now that so much of the internet is “compromised.”
Tech / Ars Technica ·
Democrats erased the GOP’s trifecta edge and gained new power over energy policy.