Google says it revised its Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after it failed to send the highest-level Take Action warnings to 10M people in Turkey in 2023
Google has admitted its earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey's deadly quake of 2023.
Samsung unveils a $16.5B chip deal with Tesla that runs through the end of 2033; Elon Musk says the deal is to make Tesla's next-gen AI6 chips in Taylor, Texas
Samsung Electronics Co. will produce AI semiconductors for Tesla Inc. in a new $16.5 billion pact that marks a win for its underperforming foundry division.
PayPal unveils Pay With Crypto for merchants to accept bitcoin, ether, USDT, and more via Coinbase, OKX, and other wallets, rolling out in the coming weeks
PayPal Holdings Inc. will soon allow businesses to accept more than one hundred cryptocurrencies at checkout.
The European Commission accuses Temu of breaching the DSA by failing to do enough to stop the sale of illegal products on its platform, in preliminary findings
European Commission says ecommerce group failing to do enough to tackle sale of illegal products
Sources: the US freezes tech export curbs on China to avoid disrupting trade talks and help President Trump secure a 2025 meeting with President Xi Jinping
US officials have been warned to avoid tough moves against Beijing as Stockholm hosts third round of negotiations
Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu and which has raised $1.5B from Tencent and others, releases GLM-4.5, an open source AI model that's cheaper to use than DeepSeek
BEIJING — Chinese companies are making smarter artificial intelligence models that are increasingly cheaper to use …
People are increasingly using generative AI to create digital vision boards, such as videos depicting their ideal futures, to help them achieve their goals
For some believers in manifestation, vision boards have become a little like movie trailers, as brought to you by A.I. Bluesky: @karlbode.com and @carnage4life Bluesky: Karl Bode / @karlbode.com : did...
How the AI boom is reenergizing San Francisco, one of the slowest US cities to recover from the pandemic, with rising foot traffic and new commercial leases
The AI momentum isn't stopping and it's bringing workers, venture capital money and life back to San Francisco. X: @nathanramsey115 and @skupor . LinkedIn: David Blosser X: Nathan Ramsey / @nathanrams...
Israeli customer service automation company Nice acquires Cognigy, which develops a conversational and agentic AI platform, for $955M, set to close in Q4 2025
The acquisition combines Nice's purpose built customer service AI platform with Cognigy's conversational and agentic platform …
Imax partners with Runway AI to screen 10 films selected as finalists in the company's AI Film Festival at 10 Imax locations across the US
Imax is teaming with tech firm Runway to present commercial screenings of selections from the company's AI Film Festival.
How the video game industry, which has used AI since the 1980s, is embracing AI-enhanced gameplay, worrying some developers as major studios cut employees
Game designers have used artificial intelligence since the 1980s. But digital characters demonstrating self-awareness is a far cry from the ghosts chasing Pac-Man.
An analysis of ~200 Shein items between April and July: prices spiked in April, settled at 12.5% above pre-tariff levels by late May, and jumped again in July
Evidence for the impact of Trump's trade war has shown up at the popular China-founded online retailer.
At the International Mathematical Olympiad, 26 students got higher scores than DeepMind and OpenAI models, possibly the last time humans beat AI at the exam
Google DeepMind and OpenAI won gold medals at the math Olympics—but these American teenagers still got higher scores.
At Shanghai's World AI Conference, ByteDance, Unitree, UBTech, Agibot, and other Chinese companies demoed a wide range of robots, including boxing droids
From lumbering six-foot machines to nimble back-flipping dogs, robots lorded over China's most important annual AI conference in Shanghai this week.
AIUC, which offers enterprises insurance policies and audits for AI agents, emerges from stealth with a $15M seed led by Nat Friedman at NFDG
Insurance Unlocks Secure AI Progress We're navigating a tightrope as Superintelligence nears. Sourcery with Molly O'Shea on YouTube : Nat Friedman Leads $15M in Superintelligence Insurance Company | A...
A look at India's plan to build a quantum computing hub in Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, where IBM is in talks to develop India's most powerful quantum computer
John Reed / Financial Times :
Berlin-based Buena, which is building AI-powered software to automate property management tasks, raised $58M, including a Series A led by GV
And Landed $58 Million From Google Ventures David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups : Berlin-based Buena raises €49 million to digitise property management
E2B, formerly FoundryLabs, which is developing an open-source, sandboxed cloud infrastructure for AI agents, raised a $21M Series A led by Insight Partners
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
ChatGPT and other AI tools are helping neurodivergent people navigate social encounters with real-time guidance, though some experts warn of an overreliance
What is now a neurodivergent aid will eventually be a universal social crutch. Forums: r/ChatGPT : Reuters: How AI is transforming the lives of neurodivergent people
Q&A with SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary on the Alphabet spinoff's partnership with Aramco, how quantum AI can help turn captured CO2 into valuable products, and more
Read today's new story: restofworld.org/2025/saudi-a...
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.