Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference — and it’s paying off
Quadric aims to help companies and governments build programmable on-device AI chips that can run fast-changing models locally.
Tuning into the future of collaboration
When work went remote, the sound of business changed. What began as a scramble to make home offices functional has evolved into a revolution in how people hear and are heard. From education to enterprises, companies across industries have reimagined what clear, reliable communication can mean in a hybrid world. For major audio and communications…
Why 2026 is a hot year for lithium
In 2026, I’m going to be closely watching the price of lithium. If you’re not in the habit of obsessively tracking commodity markets, I certainly don’t blame you. (Though the news lately definitely makes the case that minerals can have major implications for global politics and the economy.) But lithium is worthy of a close…
Tiger Global, Microsoft to fully exit Walmart-backed PhonePe via its IPO
Tiger Global and Microsoft are offering up their full stakes in the company, while Walmart is choosing to retain its majority stake, and selling up to 45.9 million shares.
Former Google trio is building an interactive AI-powered learning app for kids
Big tech companies and upcoming startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. A lot of those experiences are limited to text or voice, and kids might not find that captivating. Three former Google employees want to get over that hurdle with their generative AI-powered interactive app, Sparkli. Sparkli was […]
Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models
Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian figure in the tech world. He believes that the industry’s current obsession with large language models is wrong-headed and will ultimately fail to solve many pressing problems. Instead, he thinks we should be betting on world…
This HR Blind Spot Is Costing Results — Here’s How to Empower Managers to Fix It
If human resource personnel are serious about business impact, they should take these four steps to help frontline managers make better people decisions.
Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable
Should this wearable materialize, it could be released as early as 2027, according to a report on the device.
Sources: project SGLang spins out as RadixArk with $400M valuation as inference market explodes
SGLang, which originated as an open-source research project at Ion Stoica’s UC Berkeley lab, has raised capital from Accel.
Todoist’s app now lets you add tasks to your to-do list by speaking to its AI
The feature, now public, lets you create to-do’s and action items by speaking naturally to the app’s AI.
Apple plans to make Siri an AI chatbot, report says
Siri could look more like ChatGPT than its current state as an integrated feature across Apple products.