India has proposed a mandatory royalty system for AI companies that train their models on copyrighted content – a move that could reshape how OpenAI and Google operate in what has already become one of their most important and fastest-growing markets globally.
On Tuesday, India’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade released a proposed framework that would give AI…
Pebble’s founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring for recording brief notes with a press of a button
December 10, 2025
After rebooting the Pebble smartwatch brand, founder Eric Migicovsky is expanding his company’s device lineup with a new smart wearable: an AI-powered smart ring known as Index 01. Named for the finger where the ring is meant to be worn, the new $75 ring is not meant…
Empromptu raises $2M pre-seed to help enterprises build AI apps
December 10, 2025
Shanea Leven says she learned two important lessons when building her first company, CodeSee. The first lesson was knowing the difference between what businesses need versus what sounds visionary; the second was that the fundamentals always apply, even with new technologies…
When glacier guide and photographer Tori Harp first spotted the circular ice cave, she spent eight months monitoring the ice as it formed, envisioning a shot of an ice climber framed by the cave with the New Zealand stars in the background. But when the photographer finally had the chance to make the shot a reality, a surprise aurora made the shot even more epic than the original vision.
Now, Harp…
When I read that DaVinci Resolve now supports 32K video editing, I genuinely wondered if I’d fallen and landed on my head.
Because let’s get real: we’re talking about a picture that’s 32,000 pixels across. Over half a billion pixels per frame. This…
The Mercedes GLB is back as an electric SUV and it's better in just about every way [Images]
December 10, 2025
Mercedes revealed the new GLB, now a fully electric SUV, with more space, luxury, and plenty of other upgrades.
Meet the new Mercedes GLB electric SUV
The new GLB might look the same as its predecessor, but it’s launching with an all-electric powertrain for the first…
Tesla Optimus robot takes a suspicious tumble in new demo
December 10, 2025
A new video surfacing from a Tesla demonstration in Miami this weekend shows the Optimus humanoid robot taking a nasty fall. But it’s not the fall itself that is raising eyebrows, it’s the specific hand movements the robot made on its way down, which strongly suggest it was mimicking a remote operator frantically removing a VR headset.
Humanoid robots are all the hype right now. Billions in…
The electric crossover that could help save Nissan: meet the all-new NX8
December 10, 2025
After images of an the new mid-sized electric crossover were leaked by the Chinese MIIT, Nissan pulled the wraps off its all-new NX8 – and it looks so good, I’m wondering if it couldn’t spearhead the brand’s American turnaround.
Nissan has had a rough go of it in…
Pentagon taps Google Gemini, launches new site to boost AI use
December 10, 2025
The Defense Department on Tuesday launched a major push to get military personnel, civilian employees and contractors to use generative artificial intelligence capabilities, located on its own website.
Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government is the first AI capability to be…
ROME — Italy has juggled its definition of what constitutes defense spending to beef up its budget by €14 billion ($16.3 billion) this year, but has failed to explain how it did it, one of Italy’s leading economists has complained.
Carlo Cottarelli said that Italy raised its spending, on paper, from around 1.5% of GDP in 2024 to 2% in 2025 “without a clear explanation” of how it did…
