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TL;DR AI agents increasingly need to make purchases, but today’s payment systems assume a human is involved. The Linux Foundation’s x402 initiative, backed by over 40 organizations including Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe, aims to create internet-native payments for software. Casper Network has upgraded its csprUSD stablecoin for
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Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a round it still calls a seed, first reported by TechCrunch. It arrives at a company with an unusual shape. It gives its best models away, and charges for the wiring around them. The startup is a year old.
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In brief: EU regulations will soon require more devices to feature replaceable batteries, prompting some manufacturers to comply in advance. However, tech companies are adopting new repairability standards only where required by law, with
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Martha Stewart is entering the AI software era in the most Martha Stewart way possible: she has joined the co-founding team at Hint, an app that leverages AI technology to manage the tasks surrounding home maintenance and management. With the Hint app, which launches today, homeowners can tackle challenges around
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Elon Musk’s X has settled its multiyear legal battle with advertising trade group the World Federation for Advertisers (WFA), the two organizations said on Wednesday. The settlement ends Musk’s aggressive attempt to hold advertisers legally responsible for pulling spending from X over brand safety concerns. X sued the
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Major American AI companies like Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI are scrambling to figure out a coherent response to Chinese developer Moonshot's Kimi K3 AI model. Not only is it almost as capable as the best Western-designed AI, but it's an open-weight model, meaning anyone can run
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For social media companies, content moderation is no longer only about removing harmful posts. Every moderation decision, whether made by automated systems or through human review, now carries regulatory and political consequences, especially when public institutions are involved. That reality came into focus after the Ministry of Electronics and Information
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Enterprise AI software company Pegasystems has launched its first National Internship Program (NIP) in India, a five-week virtual initiative aimed at equipping engineering students with practical skills in generative AI, agentic engineering and workflow automation. Announced at the company's PEGAInnovate event, the program is being delivered in partnership
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Freshworks has appointed Ryan Manning as Chief Product and Technology Officer, effective August 10. Reporting directly to Dennis Woodside, CEO, Freshworks Inc. Manning will lead both product strategy and technology across the company's AI, IT, and customer experience portfolio. He succeeds Srini Raghavan, who is leaving the company
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Bengaluru-based Revspot is betting that qualified pipeline generation, rather than lead generation alone, will become the next battleground in enterprise sales technology. The company has raised $4.8 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-native platform that automates both lead generation and lead qualification for high-ticket B2C businesses.
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Saviynt has crossed $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) while launching Zuma, a new AI identity security platform aimed at helping enterprises manage AI agents, non-human identities, and AI-powered applications. The company said new customer acquisitions grew by more than 80%, while customer retention remained at 96%, reflecting growing
