Qwant and Ecosia’s debut Staan, European search index aimed at taking on Big Tech
European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have begun offering search queries through Staan, an index they developed together. Last year, the search engine QWANT, which focuses on French privacy, attacked a joint venture with German non-profit search engine Ecosia to develop a European search index. The JV, known as the […]
For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS
Sam Altman’s brooch to competitors is very hot, and includes a new partnership with Amazon Web Services. Amazon announced on Tuesday that new models will be available on AWS as Openai unveiled two Open-Weight Reasoning models with equivalent features as the O-series. The company confirmed with TechCrunch that this is the first time the Openai […]
Openai launches two “open” AI inference models
Openai announced on Tuesday the launch of two Open-Weight AI inference models with similar features to the O-series. Both are free to download from the embracing face of the online developer platform, the company says, describing the model as “state-of-the-art” when measured by several benchmarks to compare open models. The model comes in two sizes. […]
Some defend their confusion after CloudFlare “being embarrassed to be named”
When CloudFlare secretly slashed its website on Monday, accusing AI search engines of bewilderment, ignoring certain ways of blocking it, this was not a clear case of AI Web Crawler becoming wild. Many people came to defend their confusion. They argued that the confusion of visiting the site ignoring the wishes of the website owner […]
WhatsApp adds new features to protect against fraud
WhatsApp is introducing new features to help people find fraud on messaging services, the company announced Tuesday. The company also said it has deleted more than 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts linked to crime fraud centres targeting people around the world. The new feature is designed to help detect fraud in both groups and individual chats […]
Three weeks after getting Windsurf, cognition provides staff with exit doors
Cognition, an AI coding startup that acquired rival Windsurf three weeks ago, fired 30 employees last week and is offering the acquisition to around 200 employees on its team, information reports. This is the latest match of whiplash that Windsurf employees faced after the company’s turbulent growth. The startup was initially nearly acquired by Openai, […]
ElevenLabs launches AI Music Generator.
AI Audio-Generation Unicorn ElevenLabs announced a new model on Tuesday that will allow users to generate music. This move marks the expansion of ElevenLabs beyond its previous main focus in its three-year existence building AI audio tools. ElevenLabs is a leader in the company creating AI products for speeches from text, expanding to conversational bots […]
Trump says he will announce tariffs on semiconductors and chips
The roller coaster year of the semiconductor industry continues to develop another major. President Donald Trump said at CNBC’s Squawk Box on Tuesday that his administration plans to announce tariffs on semiconductors and chips soon next week. However, details about these tariffs remain unknown. Such tariffs can cause considerable disruption to US hardware and AI […]
Hackers stole the identity of Cisco customers using voice phishing attacks
Cybercriminal has deceived Cisco representatives to grant access to steal Cisco users’ identity, the company said Tuesday. Cisco said it found the violation on July 24th and condemned the incident involving voice phishing or “Vishing” calls. Hackers accessed and exported “subset of basic profile information” from a database of third-party cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) […]
Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service
Roku has launched an ad-free subscription streaming service called Howdy. The service costs $2.99 per month and has a library of nearly 10,000 hours of content from partners, including Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery, FilmRise, and more, as well as original Select Roku titles. The company says subscribers will be able to watch titles such as […]