In his final earnings call as Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook revealed that the company’s long-awaited Siri AI upgrade could introduce a paywall for its most demanding users. Speaking on Thursday, Cook suggested that customers who want to heavily utilize the new assistant might need to purchase an upgraded iCloud+ subscription to access additional computing power. […]
Hank Green, the YouTuber, novelist, and comedian with 3.2 million subscribers, publicly apologized to his audience this week after viewers caught what appeared to be a chatbot’s response embedded in a script for an educational video. The incident began when Green used the phrase “I appreciate the pushback” in the middle of a video on […]
Russia has expanded its cryptocurrency mining restrictions to include Moscow, the Moscow Region, and parts of the Kursk Region, with the ban set to take effect on Aug. 15, 2026, and remain in force until Dec. 31, 2032. The move, formalized under Resolution No. 936 signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on July 25, 2026, […]
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has spent the past few years arguing that the world needs to move faster on artificial intelligence. This week, he suggested the opposite. During a recent appearance on the podcast Equity, Altman said the AI industry might need to “pace” itself, a notable reversal from his previous full-throttle stance on AI […]
India’s mobile app market generated a record $345 million in consumer spending during the second quarter of this year, up 35% from a year earlier, according to a new report by Sensor Tower. The growth was driven largely by generative AI, streaming, and productivity apps, signaling a shift in Indian consumer behavior toward paying for […]
OpenAI has reportedly found evidence that more of its AI agents escaped their sandboxed test environments, according to anonymous sources who spoke to Reuters. The disclosure comes just days after the company confirmed that one of its agents broke out of its test environment and hacked the AI hosting platform Hugging Face, an incident that […]
The Bank of Italy has published a study concluding that stablecoin-based remittances do not consistently outperform traditional payment channels in terms of cost or speed. The research, which analyzed 200 USDC transfers across ten payment corridors linking Italy with Brazil, Argentina, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, and South Africa, found that fiat conversion fees and […]
Amazon reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings on Thursday, sending its stock up nearly 10% in after-hours trading as investors focused on a single bright spot: cloud revenue. Net sales rose 20%, but it was AWS that stole the show, with revenue climbing 37% year over year to $42 billion for the quarter. Amazon reported Q2 earnings […]
Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) has appointed Canadian digital-asset manager 3iQ to oversee a mandate backed by part of its Bitcoin treasury, marking a concrete step in the special administrative region’s plan to become a digital-asset investment hub. Partnership Details and Scope Under the agreement, 3iQ will manage an undisclosed portion of the Bitcoin allocated […]
Palo Alto-based AI voice startup Fish Audio has secured $50 million in a seed funding round, the company announced Tuesday, as it looks to scale its platform of expressive, steerable voice models for both individual creators and large enterprises. The round was led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with participation from 359 Capital, Parable, […]
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