On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod. Designed as a single transportable unit, the Pod represents a more flexible kind of compute that can sit alongside hyperscalers’ massive data center projects.
Runware says the Pod can offer inference at a higher quality but lower cost than other serverless inference…
As hyperscalers build out data centers around the world, they need to move the bits back and forth, and that often relies on a somewhat brittle network of undersea fiberoptic cables crisscrossing the oceans.
Those cables are tricky to access and repair, much less install.
OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.
Over the weekend, OpenAI took what appears to be a handful of influencers to a luxury retreat in upstate New York for what was called “Summer…
After rounds of delays, Siri AI arrived in the consumer beta build of iOS 27, launched in July. The AI assistant now does what Apple promised: It understands your personal context, taps into broad world knowledge to answer your questions, and surfaces relevant information stored on your iPhone.
And yet, the arrival feels somewhat anticlimactic. Apple finally has a functional – actually, a…
It’s so hard for big businesses to get AI tools working reliably that whole new organizations of forward-deployed engineers or FDEs – specialists who drop into a company to get its AI systems up and running – are springing up to help them.
“AI…
This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps
August 3, 2026
Screen-time apps aren’t effective for many people because, in the end, they depend on your willpower. They remind you to stop scrolling or let you set timers, but such notifications can be easy to ignore.
Autonomous Key takes a different approach to this issue simply…
For years, India was the world’s largest app download market but one of its toughest places to make money. That is beginning to change as Indian consumers spend more on AI, entertainment, and other premium apps.
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…
While AI agents are increasingly capable of solving customer support problems, most people can still tell immediately when they’re talking to a machine instead of a human.
Smallest.ai, a startup founded in late 2024, is betting the next leap in voice agents will not…
Executive search firm Christian & Timbers estimates that there are only about 2,000 engineers in the U.S. with the special cocktail of sector know-how, gravitas, and hands-on applied AI experience needed to consistently help enterprises see a return on their AI…
Earlier this month, AI dataset platform Hugging Face shocked the world when it revealed that it had fallen victim to a fully autonomous AI-powered cyberattack. Days later, the story took another dramatic twist when OpenAI admitted that the hacker behind the breach was one of its AI models, which broke out of a testing environment and into protected Hugging Face systems in an effort to circumvent a…
