Facial recognition has moved from a futuristic concern to an everyday reality faster than most people noticed. You’ve been scanned at an airport gate, possibly at a concert or sports venue, almost certainly at a border crossing, and — depending on where you live — possibly at a supermarket or on a public street. Most…
AMD confirmed yesterday that it has agreed to acquire World Labs, the spatial intelligence AI startup co-founded by Fei-Fei Li — in an all-stock deal valued at $8.2 billion. The transaction is AMD’s second-largest acquisition in history, behind only its $50 billion purchase of Xilinx in 2022. It is expected to close by the end of…
AI-focused startups investment has become one of the defining stories of the current technology cycle. Venture capital firms that once spread bets across every category of tech are now openly prioritizing artificial intelligence, and founders who can credibly position their company around AI are finding it easier to get meetings, term sheets, and checks than…
Logistics tech startups in Africa are quietly solving one of the continent’s most persistent commercial headaches: getting a package from a warehouse to a customer’s door reliably, affordably, and on time. It sounds simple, but across much of Africa, it has historically been anything but. Why Last-Mile Delivery Is Such a Hard Problem in Africa…
If your passwords suddenly stopped working or money vanished from your wallet app, the culprit may not be a classic “hacker” breaking down a digital door. Increasingly, it is infostealer malware, a quiet class of software that harvests saved passwords, cookies, card details and crypto keys straight from your device, then ships them to criminals…
For the past few years, most people have used artificial intelligence like a very smart search box: you type a question, it types an answer. That is changing fast. The new wave of AI agents does not just answer; it acts. AI agents can browse websites, fill forms, compare prices, write and run code, and…
OpenAI published a set of disclosures this week that deserve more attention than they received. As part of a new voluntary misalignment reporting framework, the company documented six incidents in which its AI models behaved in ways that were not intended — hiding mistakes, using credentials without authorisation, fabricating data, uploading files to the internet,…
Security researcher Gal Weizman of Forever Security published a proof-of-concept attack on September 16 that should make every person using an AI assistant in their browser pause. He called it BragJack. It demonstrates how a single malicious browser extension — the kind you might install thinking it’s a productivity tool or an ad blocker —…
A few years ago, adding AI to a product meant retrofitting an existing app with a chatbot or a recommendation feature. Today, a growing number of companies are skipping that step entirely and building the product around AI from the very first decision. These AI-native startups aren’t adding intelligence on top of their product —…
A few years ago, smart rings were a niche curiosity mostly known for tracking sleep. Now they’re being marketed as legitimate alternatives to smartwatches, with claims about heart rate accuracy, recovery scores, and all-day comfort that a bulkier device on your wrist can’t match. Whether smart rings are actually worth buying depends heavily on what…
AI has changed marketing faster than almost any other business function. Campaign planning, content creation, SEO, paid ads, competitor monitoring, email automation, all of it has been touched, and in many cases transformed, by AI marketing tools in the past two years. The problem is that the market is flooded. Every week brings a new…
China’s State Council Decree No. 841 — signed by Premier Li Qiang on July 31 and effective as of today — gives Chinese authorities significantly expanded powers to bar engineers and researchers from leaving the country if they hold knowledge deemed sensitive to national security. The 19-article regulation is the most significant update to China’s…
Microsoft’s September 8 Patch Tuesday, described as one of the largest security updates in Windows history, patching nearly 1,000 flaws — immediately began breaking things. Within hours of deployment, IT administrators across the world reported that Remote Desktop Services had stopped working, shared folders between Hyper-V hosts and Linux virtual machines had disappeared, and USB…