Amazon Web Services’ major annual event, re:Invent 2025, is now in full swing in Las Vegas. Last year’s event placed a heavy emphasis on AI, highlighting new foundation models, services designed to tackle AI hallucinations, and new security measures. This…
Nvidia announced new infrastructure and AI models on Monday. The company is working to build the backbone technology for physical AI, which includes robots and autonomous vehicles that can perceive and interact with the real world. At the NeurIPS AI…
If you want to bring holiday cheer to the screen you use the most, you will enjoy the newly updated Festivitas app for Apple devices. Originally designed to add holiday lights to your Mac’s desktop, this popular indie app has…
A coalition of law enforcement agencies coordinated by Europol announced the shuttering of the cryptocurrency laundering service Cryptomixer on Monday. In a press release, Europol called Cryptomixer the platform of choice for cybercriminals seeking to launder illegal proceeds from a…
Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, saw a significant surge in adoption during Black Friday shopping. According to new data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, Amazon sessions in the U.S. that resulted in a purchase and involved the Rufus chatbot…
Nvidia is investing two billion dollars into Synopsys, a company that makes software and components for designing semiconductor chips. This deal deepens their existing partnership at a time when analysts have started to scrutinize increasingly common circular AI-industry deals and…
Deezer launched its annual recap feature, “My Deezer Year 2025,” on Monday. This release is similar to Spotify Wrapped but arrives earlier than the annual summaries from competitors like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. It provides listeners with a…
OpenAI is acquiring an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings. The parent company of Thrive Holdings is Thrive Capital, which is itself a major investor in OpenAI. Thrive Holdings functions similarly to a private equity firm focused on artificial intelligence. It…
German AI lab Black Forest Labs announced on Monday that it has raised three hundred million dollars in a Series B funding round. This investment values the company at three point two five billion dollars. The funding round was co-led…
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, new startups are achieving unicorn status every month. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year. While most are AI-related, a surprising number are…
