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| 09.09.2026 | Microsoft AI’s MAI-Transcribe-2 undercuts OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs on price and speed | Microsoft AI on Thursday released MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-recognition model the company says is faster, more accurate, and cheaper than anything OpenAI, Google, or ElevenLabs currently sells. Then it priced the thing at 10 cents per hour... |
| 08.09.2026 | These 10 Types of Startups Are Disappearing as AI Turns Their Products Into Features | In February 2025, Chegg sued Google, blaming the tech giant’s AI-generated search summaries for losing traffic as the online education company struggled with falling revenue and a stock price that had already lost roughly 99% from its 2021 ... |
| 03.09.2026 | Meta prices Muse Voice Transcribe at $0.18 an hour, with real-time diarization for 20+ speakers: a steal for enterprises? | Meta is entering the increasingly competitive real-time speech-to-text market with Muse Voice Transcribe, a new audio perception model that combines streaming transcription, endpoint detection and speaker diarization for more than 20 speake... |
| 19.08.2026 | Wispr Secures $280M, Valued at $2 Billion, Redefining Voice AI | Wispr, a leading AI voice technology firm, raised $280 million in Series B funding, pushing its valuation to $2 billion. The capital fuels expansion, R&D, and new products. Its Flow platform offers advanced voice dictation. The new Cant... |
| 18.08.2026 | Voice AI Infrastructure Leader Deepgram to Establish APAC Headquarters in Singapore Following Strategic Investment from EDBI | - |
| 18.08.2026 | Wispr raises $280M to push AI voice technology beyond dictation | US-based artificial intelligence startup Wispr has raised $280 million in a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation, as the company behind the voice-based writing platform Flow seeks to improve speech recognition and expand its bro... |
| 31.07.2026 | Palabra.ai Takes #1 Spot for Speed in New Text-to-Speech (TTS) Benchmark | Palabra ranks #1 for latency on Coval's independent, open-source text-to-speech benchmark, posting 104 milliseconds — roughly twice as fast as the nearest competitor — with a 6% word error rate.
Coval's independent benchmark puts Palabra's ... |
| 22.07.2026 | Deepgram Delivers Real-Time Voice AI at the Edge for Use with Snapdragon | - |
| 08.07.2026 | OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice upgrade that lets ChatGPT talk more like a person | OpenAI on Wednesday launched GPT-Live, a pair of new voice models that fundamentally redesign how people talk to ChatGPT — replacing the company's existing Advanced Voice Mode with an architecture that can listen and speak simultaneously, m... |
| 06.07.2026 | How the voice AI economy went from talking point to inflection point for agentic | Imagine this scenario: A patient calls a leading commercial pharmacy and the call is handled entirely by an AI voice agent. The caller might switch between Spanish and English, interrupt the agent, and cite complicated drug names, but the A... |
| 30.06.2026 | Coval Secures $28M to Pioneer Voice AI Reliability | Coval secures $28 million Series A funding, led by Norwest, bringing total capital to $31 million. This investment empowers Coval to define safety and reliability standards for autonomous voice AI agents. Its platform provides critical simu... |
| 25.06.2026 | Coval Raises $28 Million Series A To Advance Voice AI Evaluation Platform | Coval announced it raised $28 million in Series A funding to expand its evaluation platform for voice AI. The round was led by Norwest, with participation from Base10 Partners, Twilio Ventures, and Y Combinator. The latest financing brings ... |
| 24.06.2026 | Coval Raises $28 Million Series A to Define Safety and Reliability for Autonomous Voice Agents | , the evaluation platform for voice AI, announced a $28 million Series A round of financing led by Norwest with participation from Base10 Partners, Twilio Ventures and Y Combinator. This brings the total capital raised to $31 million since ... |
| 24.06.2026 | Coval raises $28M as enterprises push voice agents into production | Voice artificial intelligence testing startup Coval Inc. revealed today that it has raised $28 million in new funding to expand its platform as more enterprises put voice agents into production.
Founded in 2024, Coval offers software that r... |
| 01.06.2026 | Deepgram Delivers Private Voice AI to Regulated Industries with On-Premises Deployments Powered by Fortanix Confidential AI and NVIDIA Confidential Computing | - |
| 26.05.2026 | Winners Announced in the Inaugural Edition of Champions in AI | From the creators of Best in Biz Awards, a new awards program dedicated to cutting-edge innovations and real-life applications of AI
NEW YORK, May 26, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Champions in AI announced the honorees in its inaugural, Q1 20... |
| 08.05.2026 | От ChatGPT к мультиагентному контент-пайплайну: как 5 AI-агентов пишут мне кейсы | Это не просто статья на Хабре. Это AI-сгенерированная статья на Хабре. Ха! Попались?
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| 29.04.2026 | Deepgram expands Flux to 10 languages with mid-call switching for voice agents
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| 20.04.2026 | Amazon Debuts ‘Slimmest Ever’ Fire TV Stick HD Starting at $34.99 | Image: Amazon
Amazon is pushing portability and engineering physics hard with its slimmest Fire TV Stick yet.
Small enough for your pocket… powerful enough to run your entire streaming setup anywhere. The new Fire TV Stick HD combines a 30%... |
| 20.04.2026 | Meta Plans Up to 8,000 Job Cuts in New Round of Layoffs | Image: Generated with Google’s Nano Banana 2.
A fresh round of layoffs is looming at Meta.
Reuters reports that the company is preparing a first wave of layoffs on May 20 that could cut about 8,000 jobs. The layoffs are expected to be the f... |
| 16.04.2026 | EU Declares New Digital Age Verification App Ready for Deployment | Image: ALEXANDRE LALLEMAND/Unsplash
The European Commission has announced that its long-awaited age verification app is now technically ready and will soon roll out across the bloc.
The app is designed to let people prove their age when acc... |
| 16.04.2026 | Major Disney Layoffs: 1,000 Jobs Cut in Tech-Driven Shakeup | Image: AP Photo/Richard Drew
Disney has just become the latest company to swing its axe, with about 1,000 jobs on the line as it reshapes its workforce towards a more tech-driven future.
On Tuesday, employees learned of the cuts through an ... |
| 15.04.2026 | WhatsApp New Update Lets You Chat Without Sharing Your Phone Number | Image: WABetaInfo
WhatsApp is preparing to introduce usernames, a feature that allows users to chat without sharing their phone numbers.
According to reports from WABetaInfo, the feature is already rolling out to a small group of beta teste... |
| 15.04.2026 | Your AI Hiring Tools Are Now a Civil Rights Liability in Illinois | On January 1, Illinois started treating AI-powered discrimination in employment the same way it treats every other form of employment discrimination: as a civil rights violation under the Illinois Human Rights Act. The statute targets AI th... |
| 14.04.2026 | Amazon to Acquire Globalstar in $11.6B Bid to Power Future iPhones | Image: Amazon
Amazon is coming for the final frontier… and your signal bars
The tech giant announced Tuesday that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire satellite operator Globalstar for approximately $11.57 billion. The deal, pri... |
| 10.04.2026 | Samsung Eyes Vietnam for $4B Semiconductor Packaging Project | Image: Samsung
Samsung Electronics is planning a major push into semiconductor packaging in Vietnam, with reports pointing to a potential $4 billion investment in a new facility in the country’s north.
According to Bloomberg, the project wo... |
| 10.04.2026 | Alibaba Launches AI Data Center Powered by 10,000 Homegrown Chips | Image: Alibaba Group
What can you do if you’re a multinational technology company that’s facing increasing restrictions on access to next-gen semiconductor technology?
If you’re Alibaba, the answer is simple: you stick it to those who are t... |
| 08.04.2026 | AI Is Slashing 16,000 Jobs a Month in the US (Gen Z Hit the Hardest) | Image: prathanchorruangsak/Envato
The growing use of artificial intelligence in the workplace is reportedly eliminating about 16,000 jobs per month in the United States.
That’s according to new research by Goldman Sachs, which examined the ... |
| 07.04.2026 | Claude AI Goes Down Again As Outages Pile Up | Image from: Aerps.com (Unsplash)
Claude is down again, and users are once more left staring at loading prompts and missing replies. The Anthropic chatbot has had repeated disruptions this week, interrupting workflows and raising eyebrows am... |
| 07.04.2026 | Trump Eyes Sweeping Expansion of China Tech Ban Across Critical Infrastructure | Image: AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein
The White House is reportedly considering expanding its ban on the import of Chinese equipment for critical infrastructure, including telecom networks, internet equipment, and data centers.
It is the first ... |
| 02.04.2026 | NASA Launches Artemis II Crew Toward the Moon in Historic Return to Deep Space | Image: Bill Ingalls/NASA
For the first time in over half a century, a human crew is officially on its way to the Moon.
At 6:35 p.m. EDT on April 1, 2026, the silence at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B was shattered by 8.8 million ... |
| 01.04.2026 | 8 Gemini AI Prompts That Turn Ordinary Photos Into Professional Portraits | Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana
A great portrait can say a lot without a single word. And with tools like Google Gemini, you don’t need a studio or a professional photographer to make it happen. A well-written prompt can turn an o... |
| 31.03.2026 | Meta Expands Smart Glasses Line With Prescription-First Ray-Ban Models | Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana
Meta is preparing to launch two new Ray-Ban smart glasses next week, with versions designed specifically for prescription users.
While the glasses have previously supported prescription lenses, thes... |
| 30.03.2026 | 7 Best ChatGPT Image Prompts in 2026: How to Get Better AI Photos | Image: Generated via ChatGPT
In 2026, the difference between a forgettable AI image and one that stops people mid-scroll often comes down to a single thing: how well the prompt was written.
Across creative blogs, AI prompt guides, and hands... |
| 27.03.2026 | Inside Ford’s AI-Driven Approach to Scaling Dealer Analysis | Image: NongAsimo /Adobe
How do you turn a dealer-level analysis process into a scalable, AI-powered workflow?
During a session at the Domopalooza conference in Salt Lake City in late March of 2026, representatives from FordDirect and OneMag... |
| 27.03.2026 | Inside Bissell’s 48-Hour AI Sprint That Changed How It Uses Data | Image: issaronow/Adobe
AI conversations are everywhere. Shipped AI solutions are not.
Cleaning/vacuum cleaner company Bissell worked with AI analytics firm Domo to cut through the buzz to deliver AI-based automation fast. In two days, teams... |
| 27.03.2026 | 6 Best Gemini Photo Editing Prompts in 2026: How to Get Better AI Images | Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana
Getting your photos to look exactly how you imagined doesn’t require expensive software anymore. It requires the right words.
Google’s Gemini AI has become one of the most versatile photo editing to... |
| 26.03.2026 | AI Data Centers Face Water Backlash — Can Air Solve the Crisis? | Image: DC_Studio/Envato
Data centers in North America are running into pushback from local communities.
They voice concerns about rising electricity prices, pollution, and increasingly, water consumption. These issues have become more prono... |
| 24.03.2026 | Amazon Relaunches Smartphone Bid with AI-Powered "Transformer" | Amazon is reportedly developing "Transformer," a new AI smartphone, aiming to deeply integrate Alexa for mobile personalization. This ambitious project, spearheaded by the ZeroOne team, seeks to streamline Amazon services and pote... |
| 23.03.2026 | AI’s Power Crisis Is Closer Than You Might Think | Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana
The race to dominate artificial intelligence in 2026 is no longer confined to algorithms, model size, or breakthrough capabilities. A quieter, more physical constraint is coming into focus, and it h... |
| 23.03.2026 | Alibaba Launches New Chip Built for AI Agents, Cloud Tasks | Generated with Google’s Nano Banana 2.
Alibaba has unveiled the XuanTie C950, a new server chip for AI agents and cloud computing, giving the company a fresh hardware announcement as competition around next-generation AI systems intensifies... |
| 23.03.2026 | Google’s AI Is Rewriting Headlines — and Publishers Are Taking Notice | Image: Shutter Speed (Unsplash)
Google Search has long delivered a simple experience. Type a question, get links, and see exactly what publishers wrote. But that is changing as the company uses AI to rewrite headlines in search results.
Ear... |
| 23.03.2026 | Amazon Reportedly Building AI Smartphone to Revive Alexa Ecosystem | Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana
Ever wish you could control your home Alexa from your phone? Someday soon, you may be able to.
Amazon is rumored to be launching a new smartphone, dubbed “Transformer” internally, according to Reute... |
| 21.03.2026 | Xiaomi's AI Ambush: $8.7 Billion Investment and Stealth Model Shake Up Industry | Xiaomi commits $8.7 billion to AI over three years. The company unveiled MiMo-V2-Pro, a powerful AI model. This system debuted covertly as "Hunter Alpha" on OpenRouter, generating industry buzz. Hunter Alpha, an internal MiMo-V2-P... |
| 20.03.2026 | Humanoid Robots Are Getting Cheaper — But Enterprise Costs Are Just Getting Started | Image: Adobe Stock/vstudio
Humanoid robots have long been staples of research labs and flashy conference demos, but falling hardware costs and advances in AI are finally pushing them into real-world deployments.
Prices have plunged from hun... |
| 19.03.2026 | Meta Offers Guaranteed Pay to Lure TikTok, YouTube Creators to Facebook | Image: Meta
Meta is making a direct play for the talent currently dominating TikTok and YouTube.
The company on Wednesday unveiled Creator Fast Track, a program designed to take the scary out of starting over on a new platform by offering g... |
| 19.03.2026 | Nvidia’s Open Model Super Panel Made a Strong Case for Open Agents | Credit: Corey Noles/The Neuron
The room for Nvidia’s Open Model Super Panel at San Jose Civic was packed well before Jensen Huang really got going.
It felt less like a normal conference panel and more like one of those sessions where the in... |
| 19.03.2026 | Xiaomi Unmasks Mystery AI Model Behind DeepSeek Buzz | Image: BoliviaInteligente (Unsplash)
A powerful AI model that appeared anonymously and sparked widespread speculation across the developer community has now been linked back to Xiaomi.
The model, called Hunter Alpha, had fueled rumors that ... |
| 18.03.2026 | Amazon’s Latest Move: One-Hour Delivery Across Hundreds of Cities | Image: Amazon
Amazon’s delivery game just hit a new speed.
What started as a convenience has turned into a race against time. Amazon is now delivering at a pace that’s hard to ignore. According to a recent report by the company, it raised t... |
| 18.03.2026 | Nvidia Launches Space-Ready AI Platforms For Orbital Data Centers | Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana
Ground control to Major Tom: The countdown is over — chipmaker Nvidia debuted computing platforms for orbital data centers during its annual GTC 2026 AI conference.
The move signals the next step in... |
| 18.03.2026 | Google’s Android Update Brings ‘Wi-Fi Sync’ to Phones, Tablets, and Chromebooks | Image: Mamun_Sheikh/Shutterstock
Google’s March 2026 System update is rolling out across the Android ecosystem, bringing a mix of new features and under-the-hood improvements.
The standout feature of the March rollout is a new “Wi-Fi Sync” ... |
| 17.03.2026 | 5 Key Takeaways from Jensen Huang’s GTC Keynote: The Rise of the AI ‘Token Factory’ | Image: Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images
I’ve been covering the tech sector for a long time, and I’ve seen my share of “platform shifts.” Usually, it’s a lot of hype followed by a slow crawl toward reality. But what I witnessed at this year’s GT... |
| 16.03.2026 | Motorola Edge 70 Fusion: Why You Can’t Buy It | Image: Rubaitul Azad/Unsplash
The Motorola Edge 70 Fusion has made its debut, but if you’re hoping to get your hands on one, you might be out of luck. This latest addition to Motorola’s Edge lineup represents an interesting case study in ho... |
| 13.03.2026 | What IT Leaders Can Learn From a Housing Authority’s AI Transformation | Image: GoldenDayz/Envato
In an era when “AI-ready” is the mission of every business leader and boardroom member, IT leaders find themselves stuck in a paradox.
While the promise of AI for operational efficiency is clear, the reality of mana... |
| 13.03.2026 | More Tech Layoffs: Atlassian Slashes 10% of Workforce, Stock Climbs After Announcement | Image: rfaizal707/Envato
Atlassian just laid off 1,600 people, called it an “AI investment,” and its stock price went up.
The Australian company announced on March 11 that it will cut about 10% of its global workforce, or roughly 1,600 jobs... |
| 12.03.2026 | Meta’s New AI Chips Reveal a Faster, More Self-Reliant Hardware Strategy | Image: Generated with Google’s Nano Banana 2.
Meta has unveiled new AI chips, and they make one thing clear: the company wants to build more of the hardware behind its AI work itself. The new lineup shows Meta is expanding that effort in a ... |
| 12.03.2026 | AI Chatbots Could Be Making Personal Expression Less Personal | Generated with Google’s Nano Banana 2.
AI assistants are no longer just helping people clean up a sentence. They may also be sanding down the quirks, perspective, and originality that make human expression feel personal in the first place, ... |
| 12.03.2026 | Anthropic’s Claude Now Connects Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint Workflows | Image: Anthropic
Anthropic is expanding the capabilities of its AI assistant, Claude, by rolling out new features that allow the tool to work more closely with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
The update is designed to help users move from d... |
| 11.03.2026 | ‘Agents of Chaos’: New Study Shows AI Agents Can Leak Data, Be Easily Manipulated | Image: InfiniteFlow/Adobe
We have spent the last two years telling ourselves a story about AI agents.
The story goes like this: give an AI access to your email, file systems, business applications, and communication platforms, and it will h... |
| 10.03.2026 | Amazon Expands Health AI to Its Retail App, Offering Prime Members Free 24/7 Virtual Care | Source: Amazon
Amazon is moving Health AI, its agentic health assistant, out of the clinic app and into its retail core, expanding the service to Amazon.com and the Amazon app. With the launch, Amazon is pitching its platform as more than j... |
| 09.03.2026 | Humanoid Robots Take First Steps in Smart Manufacturing | Xiaomi's humanoid robots are transforming EV production. They completed a factory "internship" with a 90% success rate. These advanced machines tackle real assembly line tasks. This marks a critical moment for industrial automatio... |
| 09.03.2026 | Humanoid Robots Redefine Factory Floors | Xiaomi's humanoid robots show promise in EV factory trials. They achieved 90% task completion during a three-hour shift. Operating as "interns," these robots kept pace with a fast 76-second assembly line. This trial underscores a ... |
| 09.03.2026 | Veeam’s ‘Agent Commander’: Bringing Guardrails and Resilience to the Wild West of AI | Image: FAMILY STOCK/Adobe
For years, the tech industry has treated data backup and security as two distinct silos.
Backup was the boring “insurance policy” you hoped you’d never need, tucked away in the back office. Security was the “perime... |
| 09.03.2026 | Robots Rise, Humans Fall: Amazon Cuts Robotics Staff Amid Automation Push | Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana
Amazon’s army of robots is growing. The humans who built it? Not so much.
The tech giant confirmed on March 3, as Reuters reported, that it had laid off staff across its robotics division, the team ... |
| 09.03.2026 | Tech Employment Falls Again as US Economy Loses 92,000 Jobs | Image: Freepik
The US labor market just served up a cold dose of reality… and the tech sector is catching the worst of it.
New data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows the economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, while the unemp... |
| 06.03.2026 | Oracle Reportedly Planning Thousands of Job Cuts Amid Massive AI Spending | Image: BoliviaInteligente/Unsplash
Oracle is reportedly preparing to cut thousands of jobs as the tech giant pours billions of dollars into building the infrastructure needed to support artificial intelligence.
According to a Bloomberg repo... |
| 06.03.2026 | Lawyers warn over ChatGPT-generated workplace claims in Australia | Image: LightFieldStudios/Envato
Australian employment lawyers are warning workers to be cautious when using generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT to draft workplace claims, after a rise in submissions that appear to ... |
| 06.03.2026 | Bill Gates-Backed TerraPower Wins First US Reactor Construction Permit in Nearly a Decade | Image: TerraPower
A nuclear reactor company co-founded by Bill Gates has received the first nuclear construction grant from the US government in almost a decade.
TerraPower is at the forefront of a new generation of nuclear reactors designe... |
| 06.03.2026 | Financial Governance in APAC Is Becoming a Data Problem | Image: seventyfourimages/Envato When compliance becomes a data integrity problem
It often starts with a routine request.
A regional finance team is preparing consolidated numbers for quarterly reporting. Singapore’s figures arrive first. Au... |
| 05.03.2026 | OpenAI Launches Codex Desktop App for Windows, Bringing AI Coding Agents to PC Developers | Image: Microsoft
OpenAI is officially bringing its Codex app to Windows, giving PC users the same agentic power that Mac developers have been bragging about for weeks.
After a month of anticipation and with over 500,000 developers on the wa... |
| 05.03.2026 | The 10 Tech Jobs Growing Fastest in 2026 (and the Skills They Require) | Image: Compagnons (Unsplash)
If it seems like new tech roles are appearing every year, recent hiring trends suggest that’s the case. As companies expand investments in artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, and advanced data tools, ... |
| 05.03.2026 | Chinese Robot ‘Interns’ Hit 90% Success Rate in Factory Floor Test | Image: Xiaomi
When Xiaomi first started talking about humanoid robots in its electric vehicle plant earlier this week, the company framed it as an “internship,” a careful, supervised trial where the machines learn the ropes.
Now we have act... |
| 05.03.2026 | AI improves efficiency, but is there a cultural cost? | Now that AI is embedded in daily workflows, the goal of efficiency is more attainable than in pre-pandemic years. Teams can do more with fewer hands on deck, and the gains can be seen almost immediately. But something subtly changes when ef... |
| 05.03.2026 | Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary Plots Massive Data Centers Across US, Canada | Image: Kevin O’Leary via LinkedIn
Kevin O’Leary, best known as “Mr. Wonderful” from Shark Tank, is pushing forward with a large-scale data center project in the US through his company, O’Leary Digital.
The firm announced it has formed a str... |
| 05.03.2026 | AI-optimization is exposing HR’s operational blind spots | Image: InfiniteFlow/Adobe
Like many businesses, law firms have started investing heavily in AI. New tools help draft contracts and analyze what used to be stacks of documents—tasks that once took hours are now compressed into minutes.
At fi... |
| 04.03.2026 | The hidden cost of a bad chair | Image: itchaznong/Envato
Workplace injuries tend to conjure a specific image: a construction site, a warehouse, heavy equipment. Not a desk.
But sitting for eight hours a day carries its own risks. You might not notice anything if you spend... |
| 04.03.2026 | Singapore Introduces AI Work Pass as Tech Talent Shortage Widens | Image: Dmitry_Rukhlenko/Envato
Singapore will introduce a new work pass aimed at attracting highly paid specialists in artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced technology roles, as part of broader updates to Singapore’s foreign workforce p... |
| 04.03.2026 | Cross-Border Workforce Growth Is Reshaping APAC Governance | Image: Prostock-studio/Envato
Cross-border workforce strategy is no longer a side initiative for Australian and Asia-Pacific (APAC) organisations. It is structural. As mentioned before in our previous coverage of how artificial intelligence... |
| 03.03.2026 | AI Job Cuts Signal a White-Collar Reset in Australia | Image: wirestock/Envato
When WiseTech Global employees were told to log off and leave company offices last week, it was an early sign that AI is no longer a future promise. It is now reshaping who gets paid to work.
The Sydney-based softwar... |
| 03.03.2026 | Motorola Plans GrapheneOS-Compatible Devices as Early as 2027 | Image: Motorola
Motorola has confirmed a long-term partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation, opening the door to a future Motorola smartphone shipping with the privacy-focused Android alternative pre-installed.
The announcement marks the ... |
| 03.03.2026 | Elon Musk: X Shatters All-Time Traffic Record During US-Israeli Strikes on Iran | Image: SXSW/Screenshot
When history unfolds in real time, people reach for their phones. And on Saturday, they reached for X.
CEO Elon Musk said X shattered its own traffic records as users flocked to the platform for real-time updates foll... |
| 27.02.2026 | eBay Lays Off 6% of Workforce Amid $1.2B Depop Deal | Image: Creative Commons
eBay is cutting hundreds of roles as it reshapes its business for the next phase of growth.
The company confirmed Thursday it will lay off about 800 employees, representing roughly 6% of its full-time workforce. The ... |
| 27.02.2026 | Five Questions to Ask Before Renewing or Expanding Enterprise AI Platforms in 2026 | Image: GoldenDayz/Envato
Across Asia-Pacific, enterprise leaders are under pressure to justify artificial intelligence (AI) investments against rising labour costs and tighter operating budgets. As explored in our analysis of AI return on i... |
| 26.02.2026 | The $120 Billion AI Machine: Nvidia’s Blockbuster Year by the Numbers | Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana
Three years ago, Nvidia’s annual profit was $4.4 billion. Last year, it crossed $120 billion.
The company said Wednesday that revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter, which ended January 25, climbed t... |
| 26.02.2026 | High-Temperature Superconductors Could Redefine Data Center Power Density | Image: larich/Envato
The dramatic growth of AI data centers and their ever-increasing need for energy is creating challenges across the power industry. Despite grid investment worldwide reaching $483 billion in 2025, according to BloombergN... |
| 25.02.2026 | WhatsApp’s ‘Scheduled Messages’ Feature Spotted in New Leak | Image: Shutterstock
It’s about time. After years of users setting reminders in their heads, WhatsApp is finally building a native way to schedule messages.
According to WABetaInfo, the feature is now in development and was spotted in the la... |
| 24.02.2026 | $100B Deal: Meta’s AI Chip Pact With AMD Could Shake Up Tech Industry | Image: AMD
The AI arms race just got a $100 billion jolt.
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms has inked a massive deal with Advanced Micro Devices to purchase up to 6 gigawatts of AI computing capacity over the next several years. Multiple repor... |
| 23.02.2026 | eBay Buys Depop: A Reshaping of Online Retail and Recommerce | eBay secures Depop from Etsy for $1.2 billion in a pivotal cash transaction. This bold move fortifies eBay's position within the booming fashion recommerce market. It strategically aims to capture the vital Gen Z and millennial demographic,... |
| 22.02.2026 | Samsung Adds Perplexity to Galaxy AI on Flagship Devices | Generated with Google Gemini.
Samsung is betting the future of smartphone AI won’t belong to a single assistant.
The tech giant said it will expand Galaxy AI by adding Perplexity to upcoming flagship Galaxy devices, giving users another bui... |
| 20.02.2026 | Etsy Sells Depop to eBay for $1.2B in Strategic Reset | Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana
Etsy is finally letting go of Depop.
The Brooklyn-based marketplace confirmed Wednesday it has agreed to sell Depop, the secondhand clothing platform beloved by Gen Z and millennials, to eBay for ap... |
| 19.02.2026 | Zuckerberg Defends Instagram in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial | Image: Jill Connelly | Getty Images
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared in a Los Angeles court on Wednesday and defended against claims that Instagram is designed to harm children, in a landmark case over whether social media is addictive.
Th... |
| 19.02.2026 | AI Agents Are Quietly Redefining Enterprise Security Risk | Image: GoldenDayz/Envato
A new social network called Moltbook launched in late January with a premise that should unsettle every CISO in the enterprise: only AI agents can post. Humans just watch. Within days, more than 1.4 million autonomo... |
| 19.02.2026 | Speechify’s AI Voice Research Lab Launches SIMBA 3.0 Voice Model to Power Next Generation of Voice AI | announced the early rollout of SIMBA 3.0, its latest proprietary voice AI model developed by the Speechify AI Research Lab, designed to power production-grade text-to-speech, speech recognition, and real-time speech-to-speech applications. ... |
| 17.02.2026 | Singapore’s AI ROI Reality: High Spend, Hard Returns | Image: FiledIMAGE/Envato
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely hyped as a lever for labour efficiency — but expected wage-cost savings have not consistently materialised across Asia-Pacific (APAC) markets, as noted in recent analysis... |
| 13.02.2026 | Russia Blocks WhatsApp, Pushes Users Toward State-Backed Alternative | Image: Klaus Wright/Unsplash
Russia has officially blocked WhatsApp.
The Kremlin confirmed Thursday that it has fully blocked Meta-owned WhatsApp, effectively pulling the plug on the country’s most popular messaging app, in what it calls an... |
| 13.02.2026 | Elon Musk Pivots to the Moon, Calls It the Fastest Path to Saving Civilization | Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana
Elon Musk is calling an audible on the race to the Red Planet.
After years of dismissing Earth’s neighbor as a “distraction,” the SpaceX CEO announced on X that the company has officially shifted it... |
| 12.02.2026 | Amazon Supercharges Space Internet Plans With 4,500-Satellite Expansion | Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana
Amazon has been given the green light by the Federal Communications Commission to deploy 4,500 more low Earth orbit internet satellites as it looks to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
“Amazon Leo Ge... |
| 11.02.2026 | Fitbit’s Gemini AI Coach Expands to iPhone, 5 New Countries | Image: gpointstudio/Envato
If you use Fitbit and have been waiting to see what its new AI coach can really do, you’re in luck. Google is expanding Fitbit’s Gemini-powered personal health coach to more countries and, for the first time, to i... |
| 11.02.2026 | Power, Pollution, and Protests: The Growing Revolt Against AI Data Centers | Image: Generated via ChatGPT
A 7.65 gigawatt AI data center is coming to Texas. To power it, developers secured a permit to build an on-site power plant of its own. For context, that is more electricity than some small countries consume.
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| 10.02.2026 | Amazon Deals Worth Grabbing in February
Amazon Deals Worth Grabbing in February | Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana Amazon Deals Worth Grabbing in February
February is often associated with Valentine’s Day, but beyond the cards and chocolates, it’s a perfect month to snag deals on the tech you use every day. With... |
