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Satya Nadella did not sound like a CEO mourning lost exclusivity. On Microsoft’s earnings call Wednesday, he said the company still has access to OpenAI’s frontier models and agent products through 2032 and plans to “fully exploit it.” What Microsoft kept after giving up exclusivity The revised Microsoft-OpenAI agreement gives OpenAI more room to sell […]

Google has added an AI-powered pronunciation practice tool to Google Translate for Android, giving users spoken feedback on their enunciation before they attempt a real conversation. The feature is now live for users in the US and India, covering English, Spanish, and Hindi. It arrives as part of Google Translate’s 20th anniversary and introduces a […]

Skye, an AI home screen app for iPhone, has raised $3.58 million in pre-seed funding while the product remains in private testing. Parent company Signull Labs closed the round in September 2025, with PitchBook listing the company’s post-money valuation at $19.5 million. The funding gives Skye early investor backing, but the app has not yet […]

Google Cloud is competing more directly with Nvidia in AI infrastructure. At Cloud Next 2026, Google introduced TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for inference, splitting its latest AI chips between building large models and serving them in production. Why Google is splitting training and inference According to Google Cloud’s eighth-generation TPU overview, TPU […]

Computer vision is starting to deliver measurable value in healthcare in both clinical and non-clinical environments, from imaging workflows and patient safety to staff well-being and operational efficiency. The harder task is building the infrastructure, governance, and security foundation needed to scale these systems so they deliver reliable outcomes across the enterprise.

Apple Watch displays real-time glucose data from CGM devices like the Dexcom G7, while Apple continues to develop non-invasive blood sugar-tracking technology that is still years away.

YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection tool to talent agencies, management firms, and the celebrities they represent, widening a program that had already started rolling out to creators, politicians, government officials, and journalists. The update puts the company more directly into a growing fight over AI impersonation: unauthorized videos that mimic a real person’s […]

The AMOLED market is not collapsing in 2026, but it is getting pulled in two different directions. The latest forecast points to a flat overall OLED market following 3% growth in 2025, with smartphone OLED panel shipments expected to decline even as monitors, laptops, and tablets continue to expand Smartphones still account for the biggest […]

Bill Peebles, the researcher who led OpenAI’s Sora team, is leaving the company weeks after OpenAI decided to discontinue the AI video product. Sora was one of OpenAI’s most visible consumer AI launches. Peebles’ departure comes as OpenAI keeps pushing products tied more directly to ChatGPT, coding tools, and its developer and productivity push. Sora […]

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Meta is reportedly training an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg that employees could talk to directly, according to The Guardian. The project sounds like a punchline at first, but it signals a real shift within a company that keeps handing more work to AI. A chatbot modeled on the CEO would not just answer questions […]

Anthropic briefed senior Trump administration officials on its new Mythos model before giving outside organizations access, highlighting how seriously the company views the system’s cybersecurity implications. The model is not being released publicly, and Anthropic has positioned it as powerful enough to provide defensive value while also carrying clear risks of misuse. Mythos is at […]