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Arm Holdings has introduced its first in-house chip, the Arm AGI CPU, marking a significant shift in its operational strategy after 35 years of exclusively licensing its designs. This new chip is designed for inference applications in AI data centers and has been developed using Arm’s Neoverse family of CPU IP cores in collaboration with Meta, which is also the first customer for the product. The...
Google has introduced three new Gemini-powered features for Google TV, enhancing user engagement with real-time sports updates, detailed topic explorations, and narrated content. These updates aim to streamline the viewing experience and provide tailored information to users. The new capabilities include AI-driven visual responses, which deliver live scorecards and viewing information for sports...
OpenAI announced a strategic shift away from its e-commerce feature, Instant Checkout, in ChatGPT, citing underperformance in user engagement and merchant flexibility. The original buying capabilities were introduced last year, positioning ChatGPT as a “shopping assistant” to enhance the online shopping experience. Despite initial ambitions, the Instant Checkout feature, which launched in...
Apple Music has partnered with Ticketmaster to enhance its concert discovery feature, enabling users to seamlessly find nearby live music events that align with their listening preferences. This integration marks Ticketmaster as the first ticketing service to join forces with Apple Music, allowing concert listings on the app to include direct links for ticket purchases. The collaboration enables...
Spotify announced the global rollout of its new feature, SongDNA, available to Premium subscribers on iOS and Android. This feature allows users to explore various components of songs beyond just the primary artists, including covers, samples, and other projects involving collaborators. SongDNA expands on Spotify’s existing “About the Song” feature by providing enhanced information about writers...
Epic Games is laying off 1,000 employees following a decline in engagement with its popular game, Fortnite. The decision, announced via a company memo posted on Epic’s blog, is aimed at stabilizing the company’s financial situation amid escalating costs. CEO Tim Sweeney stated that the downturn in Fortnite engagement, which began in 2025, has resulted in increased expenditures that exceed the...
TikTok has announced new advertising formats aimed at enhancing brand visibility and user engagement on its platform. Key among these is the “Logo Takeover,” which displays co-branding alongside TikTok’s logo on the app’s launch page, allowing advertisers to capture users’ attention immediately. The introduction of the “Prime Time” ad format permits brands to showcase a sequence of three ads to...
Spotify is beta testing a feature called Artist Profile Protection that allows artists to review music releases before they appear on their profiles. This initiative aims to address issues of misattribution, particularly exacerbated by the increasing presence of AI-generated tracks. The feature enables participating artists to approve or decline releases delivered to Spotify. Only approved tracks...
OpenAI announced the shutdown of Sora, a TikTok-like social app, six months after its launch without providing reasons or a timeline for its discontinuation. The app, which debuted as an invite-only platform, initially attracted considerable interest but failed to sustain user engagement, drawing comparisons to Meta’s Horizon Worlds. We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with...
It can be challenging at times to wrap your head around all the groundbreaking innovations taking place right now.  We’ve been living in a time over the last few decades that make it seem almost normal to have several world-changing technologies advancing quickly, but few other times in history has this been the case.  If you look back at the “giant leaps” in mankind, they nearly always stand...