Blue Origin plans to launch its third New Glenn in late February, but does not plan to launch to the moon.
Blue Origin is scheduled for the third launch of its giant rocket, New Glenn, in late February. But it won’t be heading to the moon, as the company has previously hinted. Instead, the rocket will carry a satellite into low Earth orbit for AST SpaceMobile, marking the second time Jeff Bezos’ space company has flown […]
Snapchat gives parents new insights into their teens’ screen time and friends
Two days after Snapchat settled a lawsuit accusing it of contributing to social media addiction and mental health issues, the company announced it would introduce new parental controls. Parents and guardians can now use Snapchat’s Family Center tool to see how much time their teens are spending on the platform and see details about new […]
A trio of former Googlers are developing an AI-powered interactive learning app for kids
Big tech companies and emerging startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. Many of these experiences are limited to text or audio, which children may not find appealing. Three former Google employees hope to overcome that hurdle with Sparkli, an interactive app powered by generative AI. Sparkli was founded […]
Source: Project SGLang spun out as RadixArk valued at $400 million as inference market explodes
In the world of AI infrastructure, a pattern is emerging of popular open source tools turning into venture-backed startups worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The latest example is RadixArk, the for-profit company behind SGLang, a popular tool that allows AI models to run faster and cheaper. RadixArk was recently valued at about $400 million […]
X copies Bluesky with ‘starter pack’ feature to help find people to follow
Bluesky’s “Starter Pack” has proven to be a popular way to help people connect with others on social networks, with a curated list of people to follow. In fact, it’s so popular that X is now copying this feature. On Wednesday, Nikita Via, head of product at Company X, announced in a post that the […]
The Todoist app now allows you to add tasks to your to-do list by talking to the AI
You might not need an AI smart ring to manage your to-dos. Doist, the company behind Todoist, the popular to-do list app that works on multiple devices, is releasing Todoist Ramble, a new AI-powered “voice to task” feature. This feature allows you to describe tasks using natural language. As the name suggests, Ramble can turn […]
Report says Apple plans to turn Siri into an AI chatbot
Apple’s long-awaited Siri revamp could turn the smart assistant into a chatbot similar to ChatGPT, Bloomberg’s Mark Garman reports. His sources say the Siri chatbot integrated into iOS 27 could be the focus of Apple’s WWDC presentation in June. The Siri chatbot, internally codenamed “Campos,” works with both voice and text input. Apple senior vice […]
Anthropic Revises Claude’s ‘Constitution’ to Suggest Chatbot Awareness
On Wednesday, Antropic released a revised version of the Claude Constitution. This is a living document that provides a “holistic” explanation of “the context in which Claude operates and the kind of existence we want him to have.” The document was released on the sidelines of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s appearance at the World Economic […]
Apps to boycott American products surge to the top of Denmark’s App Store
European consumers are firing back at the United States after President Trump threatened to seize control of the Danish territory of Greenland. As a result, two mobile apps that offer ways to see if a product is American-made and suggest local alternatives have rocketed to the top of the Danish App Store in recent days. […]
Ironic alert: hallucinatory quote found in paper from prestigious AI conference NeurIPS
AI detection startup GPTZero scanned all 4,841 papers accepted to the prestigious Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NeurIPS) held in San Diego last month. The company discovered 100 hallucinatory citations across 51 papers and confirmed them to be fake, the company told TechCrunch. Having a paper accepted by NeurIPS is a resume-worthy accomplishment in the […]