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URBAN ARC NOTE Launches as India’s First AI Meeting Smart Fitness Band

URBAN, a leading homegrown technology brand known for design-led innovation, today announced the launch of URBAN ARC NOTE, India’s First AI Meeting Smart Fitness Band, bringing AI-powered meeting intelligence and 24×7 wellness tracking to a screen-free wearable. Designed to record conversations directly from the wrist and transform them into searchable transcripts, meeting summaries, translations and AI-generated mind maps, ARC NOTE combines productivity and wellness in a single device. Priced at ₹6,999, it will be available from 7th September 2026, with advance bookings opening on 31st August 2026. Consumers who advance book ARC NOTE will receive an additional ₹1,000 discount, making it available at an effective price of ₹5,999 during the advance booking period. ARC NOTE will be available through URBAN Online, authorised trade partners, leading e-commerce platforms, online marketplaces and retail outlets across India.

The flagship ARC NOTE is designed for professionals, entrepreneurs, students and...

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Meta projected spending up to $10bn a year on Anthropic’s AI models

Meta has become one of Anthropic’s largest customers, at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg has been attacking the company in public. At one point this year Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10bn a year on Anthropic’s models, The New York Times reported,

AI scribes are getting drug names and diagnoses wrong in NHS records

A patient in England was told they had demyelination, the nerve damage that underlies conditions including multiple sclerosis. The test result had actually read “null demyelination”, and an AI scribe had dropped the word that reversed the meaning. That case appears in a warning from Healthwatch England, the statutory patient

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OpenAI has started letting some customers pay only when the AI works

OpenAI has begun letting some of its largest customers pay only when its AI actually completes the job. Kevin McLaughlin and Amir Efrati reported the change to The Information, giving the example of a customer support interaction handled end-to-end. The arrangement is limited to select major accounts rather than offered

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Europe has ordered a €388M AI supercomputer from its own state-owned champion

Europe is buying another AI supercomputer, and this one is headed to Kajaani in northern Finland. LUMI-AI is a €387.8 million system, roughly $449 million, that will be built by Bull, the French supercomputer maker that the French state bought outright five months ago. The order is the sixth

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Meta projected spending up to $10bn a year on Anthropic’s AI models

AI scribes are getting drug names and diagnoses wrong in NHS records

OpenAI has started letting some customers pay only when the AI works

Europe has ordered a €388M AI supercomputer from its own state-owned champion