Amazon Music’s 2025 Delivered is now here to compete with Spotify Wrapped

December 2, 2025

Amazon Music’s 2025 Delivered introduced new badges for listeners to show off. For example, the “Headliner” badge recognizes fans who fall in the top percentage of an artist’s listeners.

India plans to verify and record every smartphone in circulation

December 2, 2025

The Indian government has ordered smartphone makers to preinstall its Sanchar Saathi app on all devices, a move that is raising fresh privacy concerns.

Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium nabs $70M seed

December 2, 2025

Gradium, a startup spawned out of French AI lab Kyutai (backed by French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel), launched out of stealth on Tuesday.

What does it mean when Uncle Sam is one of your biggest shareholders? Chip startup xLight is about to find out

December 2, 2025

You can imagine how this is all going over in Silicon Valley, where the libertarian ethos runs deep.

Apple just named a new AI chief with Google and Microsoft expertise, as John Giannandrea steps down

December 2, 2025

The move is being characterized as a shake-up, but was seemingly inevitable in retrospect.

One of Google’s biggest AI advantages is what it already knows about you

December 2, 2025

The promise is AI that’s uniquely helpful because it knows you. But the risk is AI that feels more like surveillance than service.

Zillow drops climate risk scores after agents complained of lost sales

December 1, 2025

The move is a loss for homebuyers, who through Zillow had ready access to a property’s climate risks scores from First Street.

Shopify resolves outage disrupting merchants on Cyber Monday

December 1, 2025

Shopify was down for many merchants this morning. preventing them from processing transactions. It appears to be fixed now.

Nvidia announces new open AI models and tools for autonomous driving research

December 1, 2025

Nvidia continues its push into physical AI with the release of a new reasoning world model and other tools for physical AI.

AWS re:Invent 2025: How to watch and follow along live

December 1, 2025

Amazon Web Services’ big annual event, re:Invent 2025, is getting into full swing in Las Vegas this week, and you can follow the keynotes live right here.

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