Whoever owns the operating layer will dominate the battlefield
Much of today’s defense-tech debate focuses on visible platforms: drones, loitering munitions, interceptors, lasers, autonomous vessels, and robotic…
‘The Trojan Teddy Bear’: The promise and peril of childhood in the age of AI : Planet Money : NPR
In A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Monica introduces Teddy to David. The seemingly ordinary teddy bear quickly reveals himself to be…
Elevation Capital Launches Fund IX With $500 Mn Corpus To Back AI-Led Startups
SUMMARY Venture capital firm Elevation Capital has launched Fund IX with a target corpus of $500 Mn to…
Apple Is Mad Because OpenAI Breaks Silicon Valley’s Unspoken Rule
For years, Silicon Valley has had a comfortable way of digesting disruption. OpenAI is refusing to play by…
Anthropic’s extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing
AI and ML Token consumption doesn’t tell the whole tale but it shouldn’t be ignored Claude looks substantially…
Gemini in Chrome is expanding to the UK
Starting today, many of Chrome’s latest AI features are rolling out to desktop users in the U.K., expanding…
Wix’s CEO runs an AI coding giant. He says the tech still gets ‘too much credit.’
Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami criticized the tech world’s AI hype. Abrahami said he doubts AI’s ability to replace…
AI shows why Clavicular wasn’t arrested in Israel after singing ‘Heil Hitler’
American influencer Braden Peters, known online as Clavicular, has stirred controversy in recent days after visiting Israel, with…
Price Hikes Trigger Smartphone Sales Slump
Global smartphone sales dropped to their lowest second-quarter level in 13 years as manufacturers passed on to consumers…
Gemini publishes first ever 2026 Southeast Asia Report
We want to make Gemini the most helpful AI assistant for the 600 million people across Southeast Asia.…
X just tweaked its algorithm to make it more friendly, less battleground
X has made a “tweak” to its algorithm to boost the visibility of posts to users’ “mutuals” —…
The Long-Delayed New Siri Makes Its Public Debut
As my colleague Raymond Wong noted earlier today: Apple f*cking did it—Siri AI, the long-delayed Apple AI assistant…