Google announced an expanded set of Android theft protection features on Tuesday, designed to make its mobile devices less of a target for criminals. Building on existing tools like Theft Detection Lock and Offline Device Lock introduced in 2024, the…
Google is introducing a new feature that allows users to ask follow-up questions directly from AI Overviews. These are the AI-generated summaries that appear at the top of Google Search results. This change enables a conversational back-and-forth with AI Mode,…
Samsung announced on Tuesday that its Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone will go on sale January 30 with a steep price tag of $2,899. The phone’s display unfolds twice to reveal a 10-inch display, which is the largest screen ever on…
Help desk automation is a billion-dollar industry, and one of the most likely to be disrupted by technology built upon AI. Major players like Zendesk, ServiceNow, and Freshworks currently dominate the space, but many smaller startups are betting that reshuffling…
China’s Moonshot AI has released a new open-source model named Kimi K2.5. The company, backed by Alibaba and HongShan, created a model that natively understands text, image, and video content. This multimodality is due to training on 15 trillion mixed…
Luminar received an even higher bid for its lidar business as a court-run auction concluded on Monday, according to a new filing in the company’s bankruptcy case. MicroVision, a Redmond, Washington-based company that develops lidar sensors, submitted a $33 million…
Pinterest announced on Tuesday that it will lay off less than fifteen percent of its workforce. This decision is part of a plan to reduce office space and reallocate resources toward the company’s artificial intelligence initiatives. According to a regulatory…
Launching an entirely new product line while your flagship business has shed two-thirds of its paper value might sound crazy to some. But Howie Liu, the founder and CEO of Airtable, suggests it is the sanest thing he could do.…
Phia’s team is locked in, quite literally. The startup is intensely focused on building an AI shopping agent, but after a snowstorm barreled through New York City, founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni cannot leave their respective apartments. It is…
Flora, a design tool used by designers at companies like Alibaba, Brex, Pentagram, and Lionsgate, has reached a new milestone. The startup announced on Tuesday that it has raised forty-two million dollars in a Series A funding round led by…
