The White House–Anthropic fight, as it’s being described in the latest Verge Regulator reporting, is the kind of story that sounds small at first: a dispute over access, influence, and who gets to define the “right” path for frontier AI.…
Google’s latest smart speaker launch isn’t just another hardware refresh—it’s a bet that the next phase of home automation will be won by conversation, not commands. With the introduction of a new $99.99 Google Home Speaker powered by Gemini, Google…
Snap has officially entered the AR glasses arms race with a product that’s as much about philosophy as it is about hardware. The company’s new Specs—priced at $2,195—arrive with a familiar pitch from the wearable world: computing should stop living…
Artificial intelligence is moving beyond the familiar promise of “better predictions” and into something clinicians and health systems actually care about: decision support that holds up when it matters. New studies described in a Financial Times report suggest that two…
If you’ve ever put your phone down “for a second” and then looked up 45 minutes later, you already understand the core problem slowtech is trying to address: modern devices don’t just help us communicate. They actively shape our attention…
Physical AI has a reputation problem. People talk about breakthroughs in models, new architectures, and impressive demos—robot arms that pick objects, humanoids that walk, grippers that “understand” what they’re doing. But behind the scenes, the work that actually determines whether…
Pramaana Labs has raised $27 million in a seed round led by Khosla Ventures, signaling renewed investor appetite for a problem that has been quietly growing more urgent as AI systems move from demos to decisions: how do you prove…
Meta is rolling out a new way to search inside the Facebook app, and it’s built around a simple idea: when you ask a complicated question, you shouldn’t have to stitch together answers from a dozen separate searches. Instead, the…
Google’s long-awaited return to the smart-speaker market is finally arriving in a very specific way: not as a reinvention of the category, but as a refinement of what a speaker should be when the “assistant” is no longer the main…
International capital is once again finding its way to the infrastructure that sits behind the world’s AI ambitions. This time, the spotlight is on India’s data center buildout—and on a Canadian pension investor taking a meaningful minority position in CtrlS,…
DeepL’s latest acquisition is aimed squarely at a problem that has been getting louder in the background of global events for years: how to make live audio understandable across languages without forcing audiences to wait, read, or compromise on timing.…
Pinterest has launched an experimental AI-powered shopping app called “Ask Pinterest,” a new conversational way to discover products, styles, and ideas without the usual scroll-and-screenshot routine. The pitch is simple: instead of navigating feeds, users can ask questions in natural…