After initially testing its AI-powered “Prompted Playlist” feature in New Zealand and recently launching in the U.S. and Canada, Spotify announced on Monday that it’s rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden. The Prompted Playlist feature allows users to create custom playlists by…
Stripe, PayPal Ventures bet on India’s Xflow to fix cross-border B2B payments
Xflow, an Indian fintech startup, has secured backing from both Stripe and PayPal Ventures in a $16.6 million funding round. The investment comes as the company works to carve out a position in cross-border B2B payments, a market still dominated by banks and manual processes. The Series A round was…
Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM
The challenge of wrangling a deep learning model is often understanding why it does what it does: Whether it’s xAI’s repeated struggle sessions to fine-tune Grok’s odd politics, ChatGPT’s struggles with sycophancy, or run-of-the-mill hallucinations, plumbing through a neural network with billions of parameters isn’t easy. Guide Labs, a San…
OpenAI calls in the consultants for its enterprise push
OpenAI is beefing up partnerships with four major consulting giants as the AI company looks to grow its enterprise business in 2026. OpenAI announced on Monday the “Frontier Alliances,” a signal that the AI lab is willing to try different approaches to get enterprises to meaningfully adopt its technology. The…
Google’s Cloud AI leads on the three frontiers of model capability
As a product VP at Google Cloud, Michael Gerstenhaber works mostly on Vertex AI, the company’s unified platform for deploying enterprise AI. It gives him a high-level view of how companies are actually using AI models, and what still needs to be done to unleash the potential of agentic AI.…
Tesla’s battle with the California Department of Motor Vehicles isn’t over after all
Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Motor Vehicles in an attempt to overturn an agency ruling. The state DMV ruled that Tesla used deceptive marketing to overstate the automated driving capabilities of its vehicles, thereby violating state law. The lawsuit reignites an issue that appeared to…
There’s only one projector truly worth buying instead of an OLED TV
I’m not going to mince words here — generally speaking, I don’t think most people should buy a projector instead of an OLED TV, or any panel TV for that matter. Unless you absolutely, positively need a huge image, the price-to-performance ratio doesn’t work out, and that’s without factoring in…
A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox
The now-viral X post from Meta AI security researcher Summer Yu reads, at first, like satire. She told her OpenClaw AI agent to check her overstuffed email inbox and suggest what to delete or archive. The agent proceeded to run amok. It started deleting all her email in a “speed…
First Look at Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra: Purchased for Rs 3 Lakhs Before Official Launch
He further added that the retail pricing is expected to be close to the launch price of the Galaxy S25 Ultra, which debuted at Rs 1,29,999. In a development that has sent the smartphone community into overdrive, a retail unit of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra has surfaced online,…
Uber wants to be a Swiss Army Knife for robotaxis
Uber has a pitch for autonomous vehicle makers: we got this. The ride-hailing and food delivery company has launched a new division called Uber Autonomous Solutions designed to take on all the tasks associated with operating a robotaxi, self-driving truck, or sidewalk delivery robot business, including software and support services.…