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Android Authority reports Google has created a Gboard animation for high-speed typing, and a company rep says Rambler voice dictation switches to offline mode after usage caps are hit.
Nvidia CEO's daughter Madison Huang visited LG's robotics hub in Seoul to discuss AI and robotics partnership.
A Chinese children's clothing factory in Huzhou uses Shopee's light export program to sell nearly 500 SKUs across seven markets, simplifying operations and boosting daily orders to 50-60.
OPPO: model capability outpaced industry-chain organization. Alibaba open-sources MyContext for real Agent context.
DeepSeek raised cache-hit prices by up to 11 times during peak hours on August 17, as surging long-context demand overloaded its storage and I/O systems. The hike reflects a new cost structure for large models.
Qingmao Intelligence, founded by a Tsinghua team, has built a self-evolving AI infrastructure enabling domestic chips to produce trillions of tokens daily.
Pay-later apps now offer loans for rent, utilities and taxes, with spending nearly doubling as households rely on credit.
Nous Research has shipped Bot Mode for its open-source Hermes Agent, turning agent profiles into named bots that can message each other. The feature is bundled by default in Hermes Agent v0.20.3.
Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate surpassed $65 billion at the end of July, up from $47 billion in May and $9 billion at the end of last year, Bloomberg reported.
Cursor has launched Origin, a cloud code hosting service, in its first major product update since the $60 billion SpaceX acquisition.
Google has won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal business data, paying $10 million to acquire emails, chats, code and operational records for AI training.
Ex-SpaceX engineers launch 1872 to automate steel parts for AI data centers and small reactors.
TechRadar reviews the TP-Link BE6300 dual-band Wi-Fi 7 range extender, praising its competitive price, easy app, and solid performance for gaming and streaming, while noting its bulky design and lack of 6GHz support.
Google is preparing a Quick insert option for Gboard and a new pinning interface for Google Messages, according to Android Authority's app teardown.
Global wrist-worn wearable shipments fell 2% year over year in Q2 2026, with consumers split between premium sports watches and screenless trackers. Garmin gained significant smartwatch share, while Samsung and Apple lost ground, according to Omdia.
MiniMax released MiniMax-Music3, an open-weights model generating five-minute songs from lyrics and structured captions, with commercial licensing terms.
Groq raised $350M led by Disruptive with Nvidia participation, valuing it at $3.5B. The startup pivots from chipmaking to a neocloud operating Nvidia systems.
At D23 Expo, Disney Experiences Chairman Thomas Mazloum announced fan-focused park upgrades, including repairing the 'Disco Yeti,' as part of a $60 billion decade-long investment plan.
Nvidia will invest $1.5B in SB Energy and backstop $105B for OpenAI's Ohio data center.
The Game Band launched Dartwords, a daily word game combining Wordle-style guessing with a Clippy-like hint-giving dart.
Salesforce's 2026 Agentic Enterprise Index shows the average number of AI agents per organization nearly tripled to 13, with creation time down 53% and measurable ROI emerging as agents handle more customer service autonomously.
Pixel 11 ads show unannounced tracker; users pick battery and heat fixes over thinness; old Androids repurposed.
YouTube will count views from the instant a video starts, while Spotify adds Playlist Notes and Reddit tests audio/video posts.
Feedly, the largest standalone RSS reader, blamed a bug for a weeklong web app slowdown that left paying users frustrated, while its CEO insisted RSS remains a priority despite the AI shift.