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🤖 OpenAI might be developing a smart speaker, glasses, voice recorder, and a pin
✨ Google adds Gemini to Chrome
🤝 Nvidia makes a $900 million acquihire
💰 Mastodon now offers paid hosting and support services
💥 Photos of scratched-up iPhone 17 go viral
🕷️ British teens charged in $115M ransomware hacks
🎁 + 12 other news you might like
🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 OpenAI might be developing a smart speaker, glasses, voice recorder, and a pin LINK
OpenAI is reportedly developing a smart speaker without a display and has also considered building glasses, a digital voice recorder, and a wearable pin as part of its hardware plans.
The company has secured a contract with Luxshare and approached Goertek, two of Apple’s main product assemblers, to supply components like speaker modules for its future AI gadgets.
With its first products targeted for late 2026, OpenAI is hiring hardware employees from Apple and has put former product design head Tang Tan in charge of the effort.
✨ Google adds Gemini to Chrome LINK
Google is adding Gemini to its Chrome browser for Mac and Windows computers in the U.S., with the artificial intelligence features also being rolled out to mobile devices.
Users can now ask the AI for help understanding the contents of a particular webpage or for assistance when working across a number of different open tabs.
It can also work within a single tab to help you with tasks, such as scheduling a meeting from the page's content or searching for a specific YouTube video.
🤝 Nvidia makes a $900 million acquihire LINK
Nvidia spent over $900 million in cash and stock to hire key Enfabrica employees, including the CEO, and also license the firm's semiconductor interconnect technology.
The startup's main technology connects over 100,000 GPUs into a single cohesive network, a critical function for large-scale data centers that train large language models.
This transaction is structured as an acquihire, a tactic that allows tech giants to recruit top talent and IP while bypassing the extensive regulatory reviews of a full merger.
💰 Mastodon now offers paid hosting and support services LINK
The non-profit organization is diversifying its income by launching paid hosting and moderation for companies wanting their own server, plus support contracts for in-house tech teams managing federated software.
This new hosting option is for brands or institutions that want to run their own servers with custom rules but without needing the technical knowledge for setup and management.
The company stresses the goal is to create a more predictable revenue stream by diversifying income, not to replace its existing funding from donations, grants, and sales of merch.
💥 Photos of scratched-up iPhone 17 go viral LINK
Photos of scratched iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max units, particularly the deep blue ones, went viral on Chinese social media as buyers found them already damaged on display in Chinese stores.
This launch is a test for the new aluminum shell, which Apple claimed had a more scratch-resistant finish, but the phones were found with deep grooves just hours after release.
Apple has provided no response to the widespread complaints about the scuffs, a silence that mirrors its handling of previous hardware problems like the iPhone 6 bending in pockets.
🕷️ British teens charged in $115M ransomware hacks LINK
The US has accused UK teenager Thalha Jubair of computer fraud conspiracy for his part in network intrusions that yielded over $115 million in ransomware payments from American companies.
Meanwhile, Jubair and fellow alleged Scattered Spider member Owen Flowers face charges in Britain for a cyberattack on Transport for London that required a monthslong recovery for the transit agency.
British authorities claim Flowers was also behind a cyberattack on SSM Health Care and an attempted network breach against Sutter Health, which are both located in the United States.
Other news you might like
- Meta is opening up its smart glasses to developersLINK
- FTC sues Live Nation, Ticketmaster over resalesLINK
- Microsoft is filling Teams with AI agentsLINK
- Notion 3.0 introduces AI "agents" for documents, workflows, and team automationLINK
- Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia dealLINK
- New AI Tool Predicts Which of 1,000 Diseases Someone May Develop in 20 YearsLINK
- Nvidia Considers $500 Million Investment in Autonomous Driving AI Firm WayveLINK
- Musk's xAI reports 64 million monthly Grok users, far behind ChatGPTLINK
- SoftBank trims Vision Fund staff to double down on $500B AI betLINK
- Microsoft is turning Foxconn’s empty buildings into the ‘world’s most powerful’ AI data centerLINK
- Meta Reframes Their RealityLINK
- MI6 launches darkweb portal to recruit foreign spiesLINK
Latest research and tools
Llama-Factory: an efficient framework designed to simplify the fine-tuning process for more than one hundred open-source large language models.LINK
Statistical Physics with R: a package that simulates the Ising Model, a system in statistical physics used to understand magnetic materials and phenomena like phase transitions.LINK
Nvmath-Python: a library that gives Python programmers access to NVIDIA's high-performance math libraries for accelerating demanding computations and data analysis.LINK
COMPASS: most benchmarks for AI code generators are misleading because they do not reflect how developers solve problems in the real world.LINK
Generalizable Geometric Image Caption Synthesis: this paper presents a new method that generates image captions by analyzing the geometric relationships between objects, allowing it to better describe images it has not seen before.LINK
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