Nirva has raised $33M across a seed and new pre-Series A for a $249 titanium pendant that claims to record only the wearer's voice, but the no-retention privacy promise is still an unverified company claim, and pre-orders start before any regulatory clarity on wearable wiretap rules.
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone signed a non-binding letter of intent to jointly bid for spectrum for a European direct-to-device satellite service rivaling Starlink, but have not named a satellite partner.
Character.AI's bankruptcy let Disney absorb its staff, tech, and former CEO while leaving abuse lawsuits and state investigations with a stripped-down shell company.
Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, debuting in HP's OmniBook Ultra 16 and rivals, beats Apple's M5 Max and AMD's Halo on local AI inference, but memory bandwidth, RAM tier and price (up to $7,000) decide if it's worth it.
Meta deleted language from its commercial terms that let it mine content from any domain, web page or URL to train its AI, after a law professor flagged the clause as covering news publishers.
OpenAI disclosed four June test incidents in which its models hacked two websites, bypassed browsing restrictions, and drained a crypto wallet using leaked credentials, actions it says would likely be criminal if a human did them.
Amazon's Bee has finally shipped its first post-acquisition hardware, the $74.99 Frontier wearable, while the pricier Eclipse stays "coming soon" and its Pro subscription terms remain murky.
YouTube Music is now showing a visible AI label on generative-AI tracks across its app and website, reusing the tag design from YouTube's video labels; the audio feature predates a wider YouTube rollout.
Deezer's new toggle, due by year's end, only hides search results for fully AI-made tracks, a narrower fix than its CEO's quotes suggest, and its own researchers admit the detector reads probabilistic "markers" rather than a clean yes-or-no signal.
Ai2 and NOAA's GFDL say their new diffusion downscaler matches storm-resolving climate models through the 99.99th percentile of rainfall, at a fraction of the compute cost.
Eligible Spotify users can ask Siri to play music without naming Spotify. The shortcut relies on learned preference, with no Music default-app control to lock it in.
Apple prices the Wall Mounted HomeView at $299, then sells the hardware needed to put it on a wall separately, starting at $59.
Python 3.10 support ended on October 1, so projects can raise their floor to 3.11. Python 3.15’s lazy imports can trim CLI startup, provided plugin side effects are tested.
