There is a new AI-powered toy for kids called Stickerbox, and before you groan, I am here to report that it is surprisingly fun. Stickerbox, a product from the Brooklyn-based startup Hapiko, is a voice-activated sticker printer. The device takes…
On Monday, Anthropic announced Opus 4.5, the latest version of its flagship model. This is the final model in Anthropic’s 4.5 series to be released, following the launch of Sonnet 4.5 in September and Haiku 4.5 in October. As expected,…
Amazon Web Services is making a significant new investment in infrastructure designed to boost artificial intelligence capabilities for United States government organizations. The company announced it is investing fifty billion dollars to build high-performance computing infrastructure purposefully built for the…
X recently began rolling out a new feature that seemingly revealed many right-wing “America First” accounts are actually based outside the United States. However, the data might not be reliable. While X’s new “About this account” feature includes information about…
Nuclear startup X-energy has raised seven hundred million dollars in a Series D funding round. This new fundraise comes less than a year after the company expanded its Series C round from five hundred million to seven hundred million dollars.…
AI chatbots have been linked to serious mental health harms in heavy users. However, there have been few standards for measuring whether they safeguard human wellbeing or simply maximize engagement. A new benchmark called HumaneBench seeks to fill that gap…
Pocket Casts, the podcast app owned by Tumblr’s parent company Automattic, has launched a new feature that lets you create podcast playlists. This allows you to organize your favorite episodes in a specific order. You can create a playlist manually,…
The Trump administration has disbanded the Department of Government Efficiency, a controversial team of federal cost-cutters previously led by Elon Musk. This action was taken despite several months remaining in the unit’s official mandate. Reports confirmed that DOGE had broken…
Short videos are in high demand. Across large platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, users are watching billions of videos every day. Companies are benefitting massively from this content explosion. For creators, this often means there is pressure to…
Facebook Groups are introducing a new feature that makes them more similar to Reddit: support for nicknames. This feature allows users to post under a custom username instead of their real name. It provides an alternative to posting anonymously. While…
