Snap used Tuesday to reposition itself as more than a camera company. The SPECS Intelligence launch pairs the hardware refresh detailed in a companion release, SPECS, with an “anticipatory” AI layer,…
Amazon is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by a dollar, taking it to 20 dollars an hour, and adding new banking tools for employees. A fairly straightforward…
Internal documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal describe a Chinese hacker-for-hire firm called ZRON that sells stolen foreign intelligence and uses AI systems to make the raw data easier for…
The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max reviews are out, and the verdict is fairly consistent: real gains in manual camera exposure control and image quality, at a hundred dollars more than the 17 Pro, with…
Snap’s Specs got a proper hands-on review this week, and by most accounts they’re more capable than Meta’s top-end glasses, fully untethered and mostly comfortable to wear, even if the design still…
A US judge just ordered Google to make its ad tech tools interoperable with competitors, share ad auction data and accept an internal monitor, in a ruling that had been sealed until this week. That’s…
Cohere and Aleph Alpha signed a definitive merger agreement this week. The combined company keeps the Cohere name, and Aleph Alpha’s Ilhan Scheer becomes COO of the merged entity. Two mid-tier…
Zipline, the drone delivery company, is reportedly in talks to raise close to a billion dollars at a valuation around 20 billion, up from 7.6 billion back in January. Paradigm is said to be circling…
SK Hynix just settled its bonus fight with its own union, agreeing to pay half of all profit-sharing bonuses in cash instead of the 40-60 cash-stock split it had proposed. Labor peace, basically,…
AWS says it can’t restore some data that lived exclusively in its Bahrain and one UAE data center after Iranian drone strikes hit the region this spring. Not degraded. Gone, unless it existed…