Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine that competes with Google and ChatGPT, has partnered with identity verification company SheerID to offer up to two years of free premium service to more than 264 million students worldwide, the companies announced Monday.
The deal tackles a key challenge for AI companies: providing educational access to expensive tools while preventing discount fraud.
AWS unveils Bedrock AgentCore, a new platform for building enterprise AI agents with open source frameworks and tools
July 17, 2025
Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) believes AI agents will change how we all work and interact with information, and that enterprises need a platform that allows them to build and deploy agents at scale — all in one place.
Today at its New York Summit, AWS unveiled…
Anthropic announced today it is rolling out a comprehensive analytics dashboard for its Claude Code AI programming assistant, addressing one of the most pressing concerns for enterprise technology leaders: understanding whether their investments in AI coding tools are…
California Taps Ripple and Coinbase for Government Tech Overhaul – News Bytes Bitcoin News
July 17, 2025
In a bold move to modernize government operations, California’s leadership partners with top tech minds to transform bureaucracy into a model of 21st-century efficiency and innovation.
Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled the California Breakthrough Project, a new initiative launched at Ripple’s headquarters with participation from crypto leaders, including Coinbase, to advise on cutting-edge…
PAX Technology has partnered with Lunu Pay to enable crypto payments across its global network of 80+ million terminals, letting retailers accept bitcoin, ethereum, and more with instant fiat conversion and zero volatility risk.
80 Million Payment Terminals to Accept BTC…
China Merchants Bank’s CMB International Securities has reportedly become the first mainland China-affiliated brokerage to secure a virtual asset licence from Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission.
This approval enables CMBI to legally offer cryptocurrency…
The new CLA Shooting Brake is the first electric Mercedes vehicle available as an estate. It’s more spacious, more capable, and more high-tech than ever.
Meet the new Mercedes CLA Shooting Brake EV
Mercedes introduced the new CLA Shooting Brake on Tuesday, its first electric estate car. The Shooting Brake arrives as the second EV from the luxury brand’s new entry-level family of vehicles.
The…
Rivian today announced a partnership with Google Maps on a new navigation system for its electric vehicles.
Rivian will continue to offer its own customized navigation interface on the 15.6-inch center touchscreen, but the underlying data is now powered by (the Automotive…
Stark Future, the Barcelona-based electric motorcycle startup known for its high-performance off-road bikes, has just smashed expectations by posting its first profitable quarter – and in record time. After announcing its first profitable month this past April, the company…
LEAP SDK: Revolutionizing Mobile AI Development
July 16, 2025
Liquid AI, the startup formed by former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers to develop novel AI model architectures beyond the widely-used “Transformers“, today announced the release of LEAP aka the “Liquid Edge AI Platform,” a cross-platform software development kit (SDK) designed to make it easier for developers to integrate small language models (SLMs) directly into…
