Amazon’s AI-powered Alexa+ gets new personality options
Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Users will be able to choose from Alexa styles like Brief, Chill or Sweet, Amazon says.
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 19721 / 4 stories in 9 days
AI accounting startup Basis raises $100M at $1.15B valuation from Accel, GV to automate Big Four drudgery
Vignesh R / techfundingnews - Artificial intelligence is no longer just a back-office tool in finance. It is now directly affecting how accounting…
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‘This should terrify you’: Meta Superintelligence safety director lost control of her AI agent—it deleted her emails
Jude Cramer / fastcompany - As built-in AI pops up in more aspects of everyday life, laymen are counting on the experts to keep technology safe to use. But one Meta employee’s misadventure with AI has social media users fearful for the future of AI alignment.Summer Yue is the direct…
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Nimble raises $47M to scale agentic web search platform for enterprise AI
Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Nimble announced today that it has raised $47 million in new funding to accelerate development of its agentic web search platform, expand its multi-agent research capabilities and scale up its governed real-time web data infrastructure for enterprise arti…
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Anthropic launches new push for enterprise agents with plugins for finance, engineering, and design
Russell Brandom / techcrunch - It's a major opportunity to grow Anthropic’s enterprise client base — and a significant threat to SaaS products currently performing those functions.
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 19643 / 12 stories in 10 days
OpenAI’s Smart Speaker to Cost $200-$300, Ship in 2027
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - OpenAI has priced its AI smart speaker at $200–$300 for an early 2027 launch, featuring persistent listening, a camera, and facial recognition for purchases.The post OpenAI’s Smart Speaker to Cost $200-$300, Ship in 2027 appeared first on WinBuzzer.
Back to Top / Monday, February 23, 2026, 9:22 am / permalink 19569 / 4 stories in 11 days
Samsung Announces Multi-Agent Ecosystem for Galaxy AI
Paul Thurrott / thurrott - With just days to go before the Galaxy S26 series launch event, Samsung continues to tease some big changes.The post Samsung Announces Multi-Agent Ecosystem for Galaxy AI appeared first on Thurrott.com.
- Agent research and tools: CLI, books, embodied AI experiments (3)
- Leaks, specs, and Privacy Display overshadow S26 Ultra rollout (10)
- Samsung adds Perplexity, building a multi-agent Galaxy AI ecosystem (6)
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Agent research and tools: CLI, books, embodied AI experiments
Leaks, specs, and Privacy Display overshadow S26 Ultra rollout
Samsung adds Perplexity, building a multi-agent Galaxy AI ecosystem
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Amazon Service Was Taken Down By AI Coding Bot
msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon's cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools [non-paywalled source], leading some employees to raise doubts about the US tech giant's push to roll out these coding assi…
- Amazon response and blame - Company says 'user error', misconfigured access controls (3)
- Internal skepticism and rollout concerns - Engineers worry about autonomous AI assistants' risks (5)
- Kiro delete-and-recreate incident - Bot deleted and recreated environment, causing 13-hour outage (6)
Amazon response and blame - Company says 'user error', misconfigured access controls
Internal skepticism and rollout concerns - Engineers worry about autonomous AI assistants' risks
Kiro delete-and-recreate incident - Bot deleted and recreated environment, causing 13-hour outage
Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 19463 / 14 stories in 14 days
Figma shares climb on earnings beat, but analysts note that AI risk remains
cnbc - Figma's revenue grew 40% year over year to $303.8 million during the period.
Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 1:21 pm / permalink 19428 / 4 stories in 15 days
iOS 26.4 Beta Adds CarPlay Support for Voice AI Apps Like ChatGPT and Gemini
iclarified - Apple has introduced a new "voice-based conversational apps" category for CarPlay in the first beta of iOS 26.4, adding a dedicated entitlement that allows developers to bring voice-first conversational services to the car. The change paves the way for ap…
- Anthropic policy changes and Claude model updates (2)
- CarPlay gains video streaming and Apple TV interface (2)
- CarPlay opens to third‑party voice AIs like ChatGPT (8)
- OTHER: Carrier VoNR and other iOS 26.4 changes (2)
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Anthropic policy changes and Claude model updates
CarPlay gains video streaming and Apple TV interface
CarPlay opens to third‑party voice AIs like ChatGPT
OTHER: Carrier VoNR and other iOS 26.4 changes
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Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 3:21 pm / permalink 19376 / 16 stories in 16 days
Perplexity Abandons AI Advertising Strategy Over Trust Worries
Tim Hardwick / macrumors - AI company Perplexity is stepping away from advertising over concerns that it will erode user trust, despite moves by rivals to introduce ads as an alternative money-making strategy.Perplexity was one of the first AI services to embrace ads in 2024, after…
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 8:21 am / permalink 19352 / 8 stories in 16 days
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Launches With 1M Context Window, Opus-Level Coding Performance
iclarified - Anthropic has officially released Claude Sonnet 4.6, a major update to its AI model that reportedly outperforms its predecessor in coding and agentic tasks. The release brings significant upgrades to computer use capabilities and introduces a massive cont…
- Anthropic faces ethical, defense, and governance scrutiny over Claude (4)
- Community demos, explainers, and user projects around Claude (1)
- Sonnet 4.6: 1M‑token context and upgraded coding (7)
- Sonnet's $3 pricing threatens Opus-class models and competition (3)
Anthropic faces ethical, defense, and governance scrutiny over Claude
Community demos, explainers, and user projects around Claude
Sonnet 4.6: 1M‑token context and upgraded coding
Sonnet's $3 pricing threatens Opus-class models and competition
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Apple Is Reportedly Planning To Launch AI-Powered Glasses, a Pendant, and AirPods
BeauHD / slashdot - According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman (paywalled), Apple is reportedly developing AI-powered smart glasses, a wearable pendant, and camera-equipped AirPods that connect to the iPhone and use "visual context" to let Siri perform real-world actions. The Verg…
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WordPress’s new AI assistant will let users edit their sites with prompts
Stevie Bonifield / theverge - Starting on Tuesday, WordPress users can edit their websites using the new AI assistant built into the platform's site editor and media library, TechCrunch reports. The AI has a sidebar in the WordPress site editor where users can ask it to edit and trans…
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 2:20 pm / permalink 19310 / 3 stories in 17 days
Anthropic debuts Sonnet 4.6, a highly capable creative and coding AI model
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Anthropic PBC upgraded its Claude Sonnet model to version 4.6 today, adding stronger computer-use skills, long-context reasoning, agent planning and improved performance for knowledge work and design. The company said it brings the coveted 1 million token…
- Benchmarks and pricing: Sonnet matches Opus performance (3)
- Other: personality, rollout notes, and community reactions (1)
- Sonnet 4.6 launch: features and 1M-token context (5)
- Stronger computer-use: coding, forms, and multi-tab browsing (3)
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Benchmarks and pricing: Sonnet matches Opus performance
Other: personality, rollout notes, and community reactions
Sonnet 4.6 launch: features and 1M-token context
Stronger computer-use: coding, forms, and multi-tab browsing
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Back to Top / Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 1:21 pm / permalink 19306 / 14 stories in 17 days
Anthropic and Infosys team up to build AI agents for regulated industries
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Anthropic and Indian IT giant Infosys are jointly developing AI agents for regulated industries.The article Anthropic and Infosys team up to build AI agents for regulated industries appeared first on The Decoder.
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 11:21 am / permalink 19293 / 3 stories in 17 days
OpenClaw Founder Peter Steinberger Joins OpenAI for AI Agents
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - OpenAI has hired OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger to lead autonomous AI agent development as CEO Sam Altman advances the company's multi-agent vision.The post OpenClaw Founder Peter Steinberger Joins OpenAI for AI Agents appeared first on WinBuzzer.
- Industry sprint: rival agents, infrastructure and startups racing (20)
- On the ground: OpenAI hires OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger (5)
- On-site: malware and misbehaving agents threaten OpenClaw users (6)
- Other: research findings and critiques lingering around agents (1)
Industry sprint: rival agents, infrastructure and startups racing
On the ground: OpenAI hires OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger
On-site: malware and misbehaving agents threaten OpenClaw users
Other: research findings and critiques lingering around agents
Back to Top / Monday, February 16, 2026, 12:20 pm / permalink 19251 / 32 stories in 18 days
Siri’s Massive AI Overhaul is Still Coming This Year, Apple Insists
Jesse Hollington / idropnews - Reports of testing "problems" had fans worried that Siri's AI makeover was slipping to 2027. Apple says those fears are unfounded.Read More...
Back to Top / Friday, February 13, 2026, 2:20 pm / permalink 19142 / 4 stories in 21 days
Apple Confirms Revamped Siri is Still Coming in 2026
Juli Clover / macrumors - Apple is still planning to launch the smarter, more capable version of Siri in 2026, the company told CNBC today. Apple's statement comes just a day after Bloomberg reported Apple is having issues with the updated version of Siri, leading to potential del…
Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 7:20 pm / permalink 19110 / 12 stories in 22 days
Amazon's Send to Alexa+ feature arrives on Kindle Scribe and Scribe Colorsoft
Anna Washenko / engadget - Amazon is launching a feature that will add a new artificial intelligence layer to its writing tablets. "Send to Alexa+" is rolling out to the current generation of Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft devices. This concept was announced when Amazon …
Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 10:37 am / permalink 19071 / 3 stories in 22 days