Amazon Ring, facing a surge in customer-support calls during last year’s holiday season, evaluated more than 40 AI voice vendors before choosing startup Vapi to handle its inbound phone traffic. Today, Ring routes 100% of its inbound calls through Vapi’s platform.
That deployment helped Vapi raise a $50 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a valuation of around $500 million after…
Annie Leibovitz launched a new prize for emerging photographers, and it's already producing remarkable work
May 13, 2026
If you haven’t heard of the Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize yet, now’s the time to pay attention. Launched in 2025 by New York photographer and philanthropist Lisa Saltzman, through the Saltzman Family Foundation, and created in collaboration with Annie Leibovitz…
The Seagull is now the first A00-class EV with a roof-mounted LiDAR. BYD upgraded the entry-level EV, bringing its smart driving tech to the masses for under 100,000 yuan ($14,700).
BYD’s cheapest Seagull EV upgraded with LiDAR
Starting at just 69,900 yuan ($10,300), the…
XPeng (XPEV) is expanding its hit Mona budget EV lineup with the L03, the sub-brand’s first SUV, which surfaced in Chinese regulatory filings with up to 650 km of CLTC range, a 183 kW motor, and LFP battery options up to 69 kWh.
Chinese automotive media reports indicate the Mona L03 will start at approximately 150,000 yuan (~$20,500), making it one of the most aggressively priced electric SUVs…
Electric logistics firm Zeem Solutions celebrated some good reliability news at ACT Expo last week, after its commercial charging depot at LAX hit a huge milestone, surpassing 350,000 successful charging sessions as one of the highest-throughput charging facilities in the…
RIGA, Latvia — NATO is setting up a marketplace where alliance members can shop for counter-drone systems — a pilot project within a broader push by the organization to speed up procurement and help countries adopt new technology more quickly.
The alliance has invited…
ISTANBUL — Aselsan used the Saha Expo 2026 defense exhibition here to present a vision of future warfare built around autonomous systems, layered air defense and integrated strike networks, as the Turkish defense-electronics giant seeks to expand its role as a domestic systems integrator and growing global exporter.
In an interview with Defence News during the show, Aselsan CEO Ahmet Akyol…
The U.S. Navy released its fiscal 2027 shipbuilding plan Monday, laying out the possibility of the service turning to allied nations to build its vessels.
The confirmation of potential outsourcing comes after President Donald Trump reportedly rejected previous Navy Secretary…
RAM and storage shortages are making the headlines, but it’s pretty bleak out there if you’re looking for a new graphics card, too. With data centers gobbling up all the manufacturing capacity, neither Nvidia nor AMD seem interested in making new desktop cards, at least…
We’ve been hearing about Google’s push to unite Android and ChromeOS into a new laptop operating system rumored to be called “Aluminum” for a while now. A week before this year’s Google I/O conference, the company is ready to talk about it. And to the surprise of absolutely friggin’ no one, these seem more interested in Gemini “AI” than the actual product.
The newly-minted…
