Apple tests always-listening Siri Recaps on Apple Watch in watchOS 27.3 beta
Developer betas add four audio AI features, including daily conversation summaries that a TechCrunch reviewer found useful but sometimes too eager.
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Sequoia shuts London office, Arc and Scouts while raising about $10 billion
The venture firm is merging its early and growth teams and pulling back toward the Bay Area after roughly two decades of expansion.
X rebuilds its web app, cutting slow-connection profile loads to 2.7 seconds
X is gradually moving signed-in users to a rewritten web app that the company says loads far faster and runs on one server instead of three.
Apple to scan publicly linked iCloud files for harmful content in 27.3
Items shared through open iCloud links will lose end-to-end encryption and become reviewable by Apple once the 27.3 software updates arrive.
Nothing to ship its first screenless AI device in December, Carl Pei says
Nothing's chief executive shared few details beyond confirming the product will lack a screen and could not have worked as an app.
AMD guides to about $17 billion in Q4, poised to top Intel's quarterly revenue
Data center sales nearly doubled to a record $8.55 billion, lifting AMD to its biggest quarter yet even as PC and gaming sales weakened.
Snap tops 30 million paying subscribers as shares slide on ad and user misses
Subscription growth stood out in Snap's third-quarter 2026 results, which fell short of analysts' forecasts for advertising revenue and user growth.
OpenAI's Chris Lehane pitches a New Deal-style AI agenda ahead of the 2028 race
OpenAI's global affairs chief sets out five policy priorities, while an AI Now Institute policy lead questions whether they would hold AI firms accountable.
Meta buys Conductor, a startup that runs parallel AI coding agents
Conductor's founder says customers will get something new early next year, while the startup's cloud service shuts down on November 20.
Qualcomm targets $15 billion in data center revenue by 2029 as phone sales slide
The chipmaker says AI data center chips could eventually make up about 30 percent of its business, as smartphone demand weakens.
AI money delivers uneven results in 2026 midterms as rival PACs plan for 2028
Pro-industry and pro-safeguard AI groups spent millions on congressional races, yet several of their most heavily funded candidates were defeated.
Carl Pei says Nothing's first AI-native product will ship in December
The smartphone startup's CEO described a screenless productivity tool that he said could not have been built as an app.
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