As parents become increasingly concerned about the potential dangers of unrestricted smartphone access for children, a growing number of companies are developing devices specifically designed for kids. Today’s kid-friendly phones typically feature touchscreens, cameras, and communication capabilities similar to regular smartphones. However, the software on these devices is heavily modified to remove or restrict access…
In October, Amazon announced its refreshed Kindle lineup, its first significant design overhaul in years. The highlights included a new edge-to-edge design that eliminated traditional raised bezels, thinner and lighter Paperwhite and Colorsoft models with better displays, and page-turning accessories like a Bluetooth remote and a magnetic cover with page-turn buttons. However, given the impact…
Binance’s chief financial officer Kaiser Ng is leaving the cryptocurrency exchange. According to Bloomberg, co-CEO Yi He said in a statement that Ng’s departure will allow him to “pursue a new venture after more than five years at Binance,” and that a transition plan has been “implemented over the last half year.” The announcement comes…
My husband and I are caregivers for our middle son, who has multiple disabilities and requires full-time support. We do our best to keep one another up to date on the activities that fill his daily life while also managing his numerous medical specialists, procedures, and therapies. We have to stay in constant communication while…
Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd, has released Kinference, an open source project for building inference platforms on Kubernetes. Kinference is an inference control plane for Kubernetes and vLLM. It sits in front of a fleet of vLLM workers and decides where each request goes. It applies routing policies, token rate…
Alex de Vigan’s last business got swamped by the rise of generative AI, but now he’s betting the tech that team had built, a platform for creating tempting product renderings for e-commerce, can be re-purposed to make robots more useful. His new venture, Physicl, has raised $10 million in seed funding led by Inovia Capital…
Companies are using more AI than ever, but they’re not spending more on it. A new report from Ramp shows AI spending flatlined over late summer even as token volumes rose, a sign that price competition and savvier customers may be capping revenue for OpenAI and Anthropic. According to Ramp’s data, token spend only grew…
Right before the midterm elections, OpenAI hired Jessica Schumer, daughter of Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer. The company also said it would start calling its data centers “compute campuses.” For the past two years, many of Silicon Valley’s biggest names have built closer ties with President Donald Trump and his administration. Several attended White House events,…
Sequoia this week announced a broad overhaul in a memo posted to X, a move that includes closing its London office and shutting down its scout program. Observers warn that it would be a mistake to read too much into the London closure, since the British capital has a thriving AI scene. On the other…
Fox has completed its $22 billion acquisition of Roku, wrapping up one of the biggest media deals in recent years and giving the company a major boost in the streaming and connected TV space. Announced Friday, the deal brings the streaming company founded in 2002 formally under Fox’s ownership. Fox says the combined company now…
