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India-based smart ring maker Ultrahuman raised $70M, including $5M in debt, a source says at a $365M valuation, and is working with Qualcomm on a new ring

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Microsoft will open Xbox Cloud Gaming to non-Game Pass users via a pay-as-you-go model; Ultimate subs will be limited to 15 hours per month of cloud gaming

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Sources: Cursor was a top-five OpenAI customer at the start of 2026; OpenAI estimated in spring that Cursor would bring in $1B+ in annualized revenue for OpenAI

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House BIOTech caucus is weighing IP security and AI-enabled biotech policy

Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) arrives for a Democratic caucus meeting on Capitol Hill on September 1, 2026 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW September 3, 2026 12:42 PM ET Lawmakers on the caucus say they won’t push any new legislation forward

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Qualcomm backs Ultrahuman in $70M round on bet to turn smart rings into computers

Ultrahuman, an Indian startup best known for making smart rings, has raised $70 million in a new funding round that includes backing from Qualcomm’s venture arm, as it looks beyond sleep and health tracking to build a ring that can run software on the device and eventually power everything

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Nvidia launches Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that distributes local AI inference workloads across compatible computers on a network, in beta

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Google Named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services

We believe this recognition reflects our longstanding dedication to helping customers build and scale their most demanding workloads reliably and securely on Google Cloud. As we enter the agentic era, we're accelerating their journeys with a dynamic infrastructure, and connecting enterprise apps, data and agents on a single,

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OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk

In a late-night blog post last Friday, OpenAI said it would wind down its partnership with Cursor, the startup behind one of the most popular AI coding tools on the market. The reason OpenAI gave for the decision is effectively that it can’t trust Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX

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Meta says Muse Spark 1.3 has frontier performance — but its best results come from a model developers can’t broadly use yet

Meta’s newest AI model Muse Spark 1.3, unveiled yesterday, is faster and more performant on third-party benchmarks than its predecessor — with a caveat. "Muse Spark 1.3 is rolling out today with frontier performance almost too cheap to meter," Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote

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Climbers asked Google Gemini how long Mount Shasta would take and what supplies to carry – things went badly wrong

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Facepalm: Most people know that, along with medical advice, planning a mountain climb is another item on the list of "things you really shouldn't ask AI about." A group of

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Nvidia says the RTX Spark N1X launches in October in two configurations: a 20-core CPU with a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU and an 18-core CPU with a 5,120-core GPU

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Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race

For an AI assistant to become truly useful, it first has to know a lot about you. Ollie, a personal assistant for everyday life, is betting that doesn’t mean you have to hand over all your data and sacrifice your privacy in the process. While some enterprise-focused AI assistants