Author: Sabnam Hossain
With Alexa+, Amazon Creates A Fascinating Play In The Consumer Agent Slot
On Wednesday, Amazon unveiled a stunning picture of an “agentic” future in which Alexa+, the company’s enhanced version of Alexa, manages a wide range of routine chores, from ordering takeout to locating appliance repair technicians. With its extensive, customer-focused agent tool, Amazon may be the first to market if it can meet expectations. The business…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shrugging off the DeepSeek as sales soar
During the most recent earnings call on Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reiterated his belief that DeepSeek won’t affect sales and expressed his continued optimism about the company’s future. A historic decline in Nvidia’s stock price occurred last month due to speculation that DeepSeek’s R1 model needed far fewer processors to train. But during the…
Shop Circle Introduces $60M to encircle e-commerce with an app suite
Shops migrated online as a result of the post-pandemic surge in e-commerce. To handle supply chains, inventory, and marketing, some retailers, however, had to work with dozens of different app providers. Shop Circle’s founders were aware of this and created or purchased numerous apps of this type. To scale up this approach, the company has…
Commercetools, A Frontiersperson In ‘Headless Commerce’, Laying Off Dozens Of Staff
Just a few years ago, Commercetools, a “headless commerce” platform that offers APIs to businesses creating online storefronts, experienced a significant uptick in business. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses rushed to improve their e-commerce operations, and the company raised a staggering $1.9 billion. The playbook for e-commerce with Commercetools looks a little…
The Data Center Infrastructure Of Phison And Lonestar Is On Its Way To The Moon
On Wednesday, the semiconductor and storage business Phison and the data storage and resilience company Lonestar launched a data center infrastructure aboard a SpaceX rocket bound for the moon. The businesses are loading Lonestar’s clients’ data onto a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that is scheduled to land on March 4 with Phison’s Pascari storage, which…
Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson steps down from his present position
Lucid Motors is changing its CEOs for the first time in nearly six years. The latest news coming from Peter Rawlinson and he is stepping down from the CEO and the CTO roles. Rawlinson also left Lucid’s board, according to news of the regulatory filing. Now Lucid appointed its chief operating officer Marc Winterhoff as…
German startup succeeds in award for its fusion reactor design
German nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion is a two-year-old. They have published plans for a working fusion power plant in a peer-reviewed journal. There they being taught as step change in a race to generate the limitless energy. Today’s nuclear fission reactors produce radioactive waste. Nuclear fusion radiates vast amounts of energy, with zero carbon…
ElevenLabs now lets authors develop and publish audiobooks on its own platform
ElevenLabs, a voice AI business, has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is now allowing authors to publish AI-generated audiobooks on its Reader app. Days after the business teamed up with Spotify to create AI-narrated audiobooks, the news was made. The website itself seeks to rival Audible, which ElevenLabs claims provides authors with lower royalties. According…
Anthropic Benchmarked Its Latest AI Model Using Pokémon
Anthropic claimed to have tested its most recent model, the Claude 3.7 Sonnet, on the Game Boy classic Pokémon Red in a blog post. The model can play Pokémon continually because the manufacturer gave it basic memory, screen pixel input, and function calls to press buttons and move across the screen. Claude 3.7 Sonnet’s capacity…
Apple executives According to Phil Schiller’s testimony, he voiced concerns over App Store commissions on online transactions.
In his court testimony on Monday, Apple Fellow Phil Schiller, the executive responsible for overseeing the program Store, stated that he had initially expressed concerns regarding the 27% commission that the iPhone manufacturer intended to charge program developers for transactions made outside of the App Store. He said the price would lead to an “antagonistic…