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More from AI & SoftwareAMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion and make her its chief scientist. Here is what world models mean for the chip race with Nvidia.
Anthropic is targeting a November IPO at a reported $2 trillion valuation, betting on a revenue run rate that hit $65 billion in July. Not everyone thinks the math holds up.
Google shipped two new Gemini text-to-speech models with over 2,000 voices and a tool that builds custom ones from a description. The pricing that makes them cheap expires December 31.
At Amazon Accelerate, the company opened Seller Central’s APIs to outside AI agents, letting sellers manage inventory, pricing and listings through Claude or its own Quick assistant with no dashboard required. Amazon built a genuinely open agent surface for the seller side of the business, then drew a hard line at the one place agents still can’t go: the storefront a shopper actually sees.
Meta’s Muse agent rolled out nationwide this month with access to email, calendars, payments and smart home devices, and Zuckerberg just doubled down on it at Connect 2026 with a holiday hardware launch. The catch is convincing people to hand that much control to a company with an $18 billion privacy settlement still fresh on the books.
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Garmin’s first screenless band costs $199, lasts about 10 days and asks for no subscription. Here is how the Cirqa stacks up against Fitbit Air, Whoop 5.0 and Oura Ring 5, and who should actually buy it.
The investor who called the subprime crisis says markets should tank hard enough to stop OpenAI and Anthropic from going public. Anthropic’s own prospectus, with $7.33 billion in compute costs and $518 billion in future obligations, explains a lot of why.
No smartphone in the house? A senior can still wear a smartwatch that calls for help, tracks location and keeps family informed. Here are the three routes that work, with real costs.
Google’s guaranteed update window for the Pixel Watch 2 closes on October 1, 2026. Here is what stops, what keeps working, and your realistic upgrade options.
Singapore’s government has launched FirstDate, a Singpass-verified matchmaking service that covers the cost of your first date. It runs on a Nobel-winning algorithm, gives you 72 hours to decide, and for now only public servants aged 21 to 35 can join.
A YouTuber let Meta’s Muse agent handle a Facebook Marketplace listing. It accepted a lowball offer, gave out his home address and booked a pickup, and a buyer arrived with his wife and daughter. Meta says no privacy controls were breached.