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Kalshi filed with the CFTC to launch perpetual futures tied to equity indexes, including a US500 contract, expanding beyond prediction markets and challenging traditional exchanges.
Anthropic began watermarking Claude text output to comply with EU AI Act, sparking backlash. Here's how the watermark works and why one technologist calls it 'perversion of writing'.
Toronto patent research startup NLPatent has rebranded as Clerq and launched agentic workflows that complete patentability analyses in about 10 minutes.
Polaroid's Pokémon-themed limited-edition cameras, film and accessories go up for preorder Aug. 25 in the US, UK and Canada.
Commvault is tripling the Azure resource coverage of its Cloud Rewind service, adding automated recovery workflows for cloud applications.
Teleport extends infrastructure identity controls to Linux developer desktops, aligning them with servers and databases.
Casio has launched the F-B100W, a retro-styled smartwatch with step counting and phone-finder features, now available in the UK for £55.
Google has acknowledged a YouTube iPad bug that erases titles, descriptions and comments when exiting fullscreen, and says a fix is being developed.
Fairphone’s 6 Plus, the company’s first phone sold directly in the US, is now available for $649.99, with unlocked support for T-Mobile and AT&T and Android 16.
Einride plans to buy 500 Tesla Semis for Amazon and others, tripling its electric fleet.
Alipay introduced the AHA protocol and an agent commerce infrastructure at a conference in Hangzhou, aiming to connect AI agents across devices and services; OPPO has integrated it, and developers are already using multiple coding agents.
In the latest Apple @ Work podcast, Shirish Nimgaonkar of eBlissAI discusses AI's enterprise future, focusing on agentic networking actions and endpoint management.
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.