Waze, the Google-owned navigation app, is getting new AI-powered features and customization updates, including the ability to report road updates conversationally and get personalized navigation. Some of the new features are powered by Google’s Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the tech giant’s broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze…
Keep yourself open to, “OK, I’m gonna look around. Is there a Luddite poster here? I’m at my local bookstore. OK, is there some information here?” It’s this idea of social infrastructure, switching people over from the idea of, “OK, I’ll look at an Instagram page, and here’s all the events” to the idea of,…
Anthropic has started localizing Claude’s pricing in India, its biggest market outside the U.S., as global AI companies increasingly tailor their offerings to win users in the world’s most populous nation. Local pricing has begun to appear for some users in India on Claude’s website and mobile apps. However, Anthropic has yet to enable payments…
If you remember racing home after school to grab the family landline and call your best friend before dinner, a new device from Pinwheel is aiming to reboot that experience for a new generation. The kid-focused tech company announced Tuesday the launch of Pinwheel Home, a modern take on the classic household phone designed to…
Hayden Bleasel, an expert developer from OpenAI, released Blume, an open-source documentation framework. Blume shipped to npm as version 1.0.3 the same day. It is as simple as Drop Markdown into a folder and ship a docs site. No app boilerplate is written or maintained afterward. The project is MIT-licensed and open sourced. What is…
A coalition of 12 state attorneys general is filing a lawsuit to block the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), alleging that the deal would harm movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and audiences. The coalition, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, argues that the acquisition violates the Clayton Act, which prohibits…
General Fusion began trading on the Nasdaq today under the ticker GFUZ, becoming the first publicly listed fusion power company, beating competitor and Trump-backed TAE Technologies by several months. And investors seemed to want in. The stock rallied as trading began Monday and is now up 40% from $12.85 as of 12:50 p.m. ET. General…
Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new round of funding led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors at a $1.5 billion valuation, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal. The company is raising at least $75 million, and fielded a high…
X has made a “tweak” to its algorithm to spice up the visibility of posts to customers’ “mutuals” — the folks they comply with who comply with them again, head of product, Nikita Bier, said Monday. “We observed this knowledge was lacking from the algo and it made your folks seem much less in your…
A sample is rising amongst individuals who’ve already made it huge. They’re rolling up their sleeves once more, seemingly out of worry of lacking AI’s defining second and, presumably, the irresistible attract of constructing much more cash — doubtlessly much more. Tom Blomfield, who co-founded GoCardless and Monzo earlier than spending 4.5 years mentoring founders…
