Circular announces Ring 3 Pro and Slim at IFA with contactless payments and haptic alerts
Circular announces Ring 3 Pro and Slim at IFA with contactless payments and haptic alerts

Circular has announced the Ring 3 Pro and Ring 3 Slim at IFA in Berlin, adding contactless payments and haptic alerts, with no price or release date given. The Pro’s ECG and atrial fibrillation detection is described as FDA cleared, and EU medical devi…

ElevenLabs hires OpenAI’s Ashley Kramer as its first chief revenue officer
ElevenLabs hires OpenAI’s Ashley Kramer as its first chief revenue officer

ElevenLabs has hired Ashley Kramer, formerly vice president of enterprise sales at OpenAI, as its first chief revenue officer, as more than half its revenue shifts to enterprise customers. Its core product falls under the AI Act’s synthetic content mar…

Fireflies launches Voice Agents for screening, sales and support calls
Fireflies launches Voice Agents for screening, sales and support calls

Fireflies has launched Voice Agents that run screening interviews, sales discovery and support calls, reporting more than 40,000 conversations across 2,100 organisations in 97 countries. Recruitment and candidate evaluation systems are high risk under …

Meta is dropping Google Chat for Slack because it says agents work better there
Meta is dropping Google Chat for Slack because it says agents work better there

Meta is migrating internal communications from Google Chat to Slack because Slack is the strongest platform for AI agents, a memo from AI chief Alexandr Wang says. European governments have spent two years moving the other way, onto sovereign suites ch…

Eddy Cue quietly became the most powerful executive at Apple
Eddy Cue quietly became the most powerful executive at Apple

Phil Schiller leaving the App Store made Monday’s headlines. The quieter fact underneath it is that Eddy Cue now runs more of Apple than anyone except the new chief executive. Mark Gurman broke the reshuffle for Bloomberg on Monday, hours before John T…

Apple has a new CEO, and Tim Cook signed off quoting Steve Jobs
Apple has a new CEO, and Tim Cook signed off quoting Steve Jobs

John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. He is the eighth person to hold the job in the company’s 50 years, and the first engineer in the seat since Steve Jobs. Tim Cook spent his last day writing to staff. Chance Miller obtained the mem…

UBS says China is unlikely to match ASML’s top tool this decade
UBS says China is unlikely to match ASML’s top tool this decade

UBS analysts say China’s lithography programme is at roughly the stage ASML reached in 2004 and will not produce a viable EUV alternative within a decade. They also expect China to reach high-volume manufacturing of immersion DUV machines in two to fiv…

The hardest problem in physical AI may be the magnet, not the model
The hardest problem in physical AI may be the magnet, not the model

Actuators account for 40% to 60% of a humanoid robot’s bill of materials and China refines roughly 90% of the rare earth magnets inside them, which makes the components rather than the models the limit on scale. Europe has a 2030 cap on single country …

TU Darmstadt found the people who know AI best fear it most
TU Darmstadt found the people who know AI best fear it most

A representative TU Darmstadt survey of more than 2,000 people in Germany found that about 43% of those with very strong AI knowledge expect AI could soon take over their work, a higher share than among those who understand it less. Only 15% of respond…

A solar mobile clinic has successfully driven 800km across Kenya
A solar mobile clinic has successfully driven 800km across Kenya

Solar Team Eindhoven drove its solar ambulance Stella Juva more than 800km across Kenya with Amref Health Africa, and found it generated more energy than it used while running an X-ray machine, ultrasound scanner and vaccine fridge at a clinic with no …