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7:30 AM PDT · September 30, 2026 Instagram announced on Wednesday that it’s bringing an AI video editing tool to Edits, its CapCut competitor. This conversational AI assistant is intended to provide personalized feedback to creators, rather than generic advice. “The assistant knows your account’s Instagram metrics, things
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The Edits assistant offers personalized guidance based on your audience and best-performing content. Meta/Engadget It isn't hard to find AI-generated guidance for just about anything these days, but Meta thinks it has come up with the perfect solution for its extensive creator community with its new Edits
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OpenAI has launched Dots, a new set of always-on AI agents that can work in the background and continue working on tasks without constant direction from users. Powered by GPT-6 Astra, each Dot gets its own cloud computer and browser and can connect to more than 4,000 apps through
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Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used across lending, from credit assessment and fraud detection to document processing and customer servicing. But as lenders give AI greater autonomy, questions around explainability, bias, model drift and human accountability are becoming more important. Tarun Aggarwal, Group Chief Technology Officer, Capri Loans, discusses where
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Peak XV Partners has selected 18 startups for the 12th cohort of Surge while raising the maximum investment under its seed-stage programme from $3 million to $5 million per company. A programme that started in 2019 as an early-stage platform for young startups. Under the revised structure, Surge can now
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Forward-looking: The Tennessee Valley Authority has received the federal go-ahead to build a BWRX-300 small modular reactor at its Clinch River site near Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The approval makes TVA the first US utility
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* Samsung has announced the high-end Galaxy Tab S12 Plus and S12 Ultra * The Ultra is slimmer and more powerful than ever * The company has also announced the Galaxy SmartTag 3, complete with iOS support Samsung’s flagship tablets for 2026 have just launched in the form of the Samsung Galaxy
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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This is it: 3 days to get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Exhibit bookings close Friday, October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT, and this is your final opportunity to showcase at the heart of the global
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Editorial independence is core to our work. Some links may earn us a commission, without influencing our opinions. The Native M3 Pro feels like a genuinely premium RO purifier, combining thoughtful design with clean-tasting water, though its smart features need work. Prefer HTon Google Urban Company may have entered the
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Lighthouse Reports, a Dutch non-profit newsroom, lodged a complaint this week, saying the European Commission keeps the public from seeing how much power and water each data center uses. They classified it under the Aarhus Convention, a binding treaty that grants people the right to access environmental information and to
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A business registers its number, writes a plain appointment reminder and sends it. The text never arrives. Nothing bounces back. Somewhere between the sender and the phone, a filter simply drops it. US carriers filter business text messaging for three main reasons: spam volume, complaint rates and messages that do
