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Google has hired the CEO and top top behind voice AI startup Hume AI, signaling that voice is increasingly becoming the preferred interface over screens.

Since 2024, Anthropic's performance optimization team has given job seekers a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff — but as AI coding tools have gotten better, the test has had to change a lot to stay ahead of AI-assisted cheating.

Now available in the US and Canada, Spotify's AI-powered Prompted Playlists let users describe what they want to hear using natural language commands.

Former Samsung Leader to Spearhead Company’s Asia-Pacific Expansion as Global Demand for Autonomous Offensive Security Accelerates XBOW, the leading autonomous offensive security company, today announced the appointment of WonLae Lee as General Manager, South Korea. Beginning with South Korea, Mr. L...

New research from Precisely and the Center for Applied AI and Business Analytics at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business reveals gaps in operational maturity, data trust, and skills as organizations look to scale AI enterprise-wide  Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, today rele...

TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected IT platform solutions that power digital transformation initiatives, today announced the release of its annual IT leader survey results. The new research – The 2030 IT Blueprint: How Mid-Market Enterprises are Reimagining Modernization – is based on...

Generix, a global business software company offering an expansive portfolio of SaaS solutions for supply chain, finance, commerce, and B2B integration, announces that Ageneau Group, a French transportation, logistics, and training company, has chosen Generix WMS and TradeXpress to modernize operatio...

Zilliz, the company behind the leading open-source vector database Milvus, recently announced the General Availability (GA) of Milvus 2.6.x on Zilliz Cloud. This major update not only brings the architectural breakthroughs of the latest Milvus release to a fully managed environment but also introduc...

Former SentinelOne and Splunk Product Leader Brings Nearly 30 Years of Global Enterprise Security Experience to Managed Cybersecurity Services Organization Cyderes, a global managed cybersecurity services partner engineered to defend against today’s relentless threat landscape, today announced the a...

Should this wearable materialize, it could be released as early as 2027, according to a report on the device.

From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot happened last year.

The feature, now public, lets you create to-do's and action items by speaking naturally to the app's AI.

Siri could look more like ChatGPT than its current state as an integrated feature across Apple products.

Research from startup GPTZero points to the impossible problem prestigious conferences face in the age of AI slop.

YouTube Shorts viewers might soon see AI versions of their favorite creators when scrolling through their feeds.

The AI startup is on track to announce its first hardware device in the second half of this year, OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane said during an interview Davos.

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Zanskar has raised $115 million to find about a dozen geothermal resources that could help power the grid throughout the U.S. West.

New virtual compute units deliver up to 50% higher indexing throughput and 37% lower latency — powering search, observability and security applications at no extra cost Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, announced a more powerful Elastic Cloud Serverless on Amazon Web Services (AWS), deliv...

Language learning marketplace Preply is now valued at $1.2 billion after raising a $150 million that marks a new chapter for the 14-year-old company.

Consumers spent more money in mobile apps than games in 2025, driven by AI app adoption.

Featuring new Intel Arc GPU with up to 12 Xe cores and up to 120 TOPS, NPU 5 with up to 50 TOPS, and Advanced CPU Architecture for Edge AI and General Embedded Systems — Industrial-Temperature SKUs Extended for Ruggedized Applications Summary: New Heights in Edge AI: Significantly Faster NPU and... ...

Q/C Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: QCLS) (“Q/C Technologies” or “the Company”), a pioneer of quantum-class computing at the speed of light, today announced the appointment of Chelsea Voss to its Board of Directors. Ms. Voss is a computer scientist and Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where she has ...

One Identity, a trusted leader in identity security, today announces a major upgrade to One Identity Manager, a top-rated IGA solution, strengthening identity governance as a critical security control for modern enterprise environments.  One Identity Manager 10.0 introduces security-driven capabilit...