Snow day? Microsoft on Monday confirmed a widespread, multi-hour outage affecting Outlook users, leading to email delays and failures, authentication issues, and other problems. In a post on X, Microsoft reported the issue was impacting its Exchange Online service, its cloud-hosted platform for business email, calendar, contacts, and tasks, and then said it had identified…
Tim Cook is departing from his long-held role as Apple’s CEO — and a wave of top executives are heading for the exits as he does. On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Phil Schiller, long the head of Apple’s App Store, stepped down from his position in recent days. Schiller has been with the company since…
While battery swapping has struggled to take off in much of the world, Canadian auto parts giant Magna International believes the model could work at scale in India, where millions of two- and three-wheelers and a fast-growing delivery economy create a different set of economics. And it’s placing that bet on Yuma Energy, a Bengaluru-based…
Google Research has released TimesFM-3, a 330 million parameter time series foundation model that forecasts multiple related series in a single forward pass. Every TimesFM checkpoint through 2.5 was univariate: one series, its own history, nothing else. TimesFM-3 is pretrained natively for multivariate forecasting on more than 1 trillion time points, and accepts multiple targets,…
Voice agents fail on exactly the parts of a call that matter most: the order number, the callback digits, the email address the caller has to write down. Gradium AI has released a new text-to-speech model and made it the default across its API and Studio. The company reports an 81.0% human-rated pass rate on…
The favored prediction market Polymarket has raised $300 million from 1789 Capital as a part of a brand new funding spherical totaling round $1 billion, The Wall Road Journal reported, citing unnamed sources. 1789 Capital, an funding fund through which Donald Trump Jr. is a companion, beforehand invested $200 million within the prediction website. The…
In its lawsuit against OpenAI, Apple filed what it calls “shocking evidence” to bolster its allegations that former employees stole trade secrets for OpenAI’s benefit. These new details emerged after the legal counsel for former Apple employee Chang Liu — who now works at OpenAI — handed over Liu’s old Apple work laptop for investigation…
Prominent solo investor Lachy Groom has backed a Bengaluru startup attempting an ambitious feat: keeping an aircraft in the sky for more than a year by harvesting energy from ocean winds. Alteon, founded by 20-year-old Samay Sanghvi, announced Tuesday that it raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed round led by Groom, with participation from Together…
How do you benchmark a web search API when the thing being tested can read the answer key? A search agent has a fetch tool. If the gold labels sit in a public dataset, the agent can download them mid-evaluation and skip retrieval entirely. A similar problem arises when the answers are already encoded in…
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has expanded its fifth growth fund to $8.5 billion. That means the firm added another $1.75 billion since the fund launched in January with $6.75 billion. The firm’s announcement comes just days after a16z announced it had raised a fresh $1.1 billion for a new and different fund that it’s…
