Wispr Flow raised $280 million at a $2 billion valuation to fund Canto, a speech model for noise and mixed languages, as Google gives dictation away.
OnePlus and Oppo raised unchanged phones by up to ₹5,000 in India after memory plants sent DRAM to AI servers, hitting Nord Lite and A-series buyers.
OpenAI’s 80% Luna cut and Anthropic’s half-price Opus 5 chase Chinese labs, while 10x denser halls and 20-year power leases set who carries the risk.
Honor opened China sales of the Robot Phone, a 9,999 yuan gimbal flagship that cannot shoot 4K with its arm deployed.
Ethereum’s layer-2 fees are 229 times cheaper, yet ether’s burn no longer offsets new issuance, recasting the 2026 ETH investment case.
Designkit’s photo-to-video tools fill Amazon and TikTok slots from catalog stills, while cloned ads and a one-minute listing rule set the real limits.
Germany closed its Apple ATT case without a fine. The privacy prompt stays, minus the warning hand and the word tracking, for seven years of trustee...
The Bank of Korea finds 94% of 285,000 youth job losses in AI-exposed work, and says the real damage is a broken career ladder.
Meta ended the Oakland child safety trial with an $18 billion teen-limits deal that only tightens if TikTok and YouTube join.
Livermore’s 1-megaton standoff runs show X-rays from 25 metres can wreck a 160-metre asteroid more broadly than a closer burst, without a direct hit.