Garmin has finally joined the screenless wearable race with the CIRQA Smart Band, a $199.99 fabric-strap tracker that drops the display and, more pointedly, the recurring fee its rivals depend on. The band is the company’s clearest challenge yet to Who…
Google has connected Nuvem, a new transatlantic subsea cable running beneath the Atlantic between Portugal and the United States, tightening its grip on the physical layer that carries its cloud and AI services. The system links Sines, on Portugal’s so…
Samsung has started rolling out a beta version of Samsung Health Assistant, which it calls a fully integrated, AI-powered personal health assistant built into the Samsung Health app. According to the company, the feature is live for eligible users in t…
The Galaxy Card pays 5% back on Samsung purchases and lives entirely inside Samsung Wallet, as the company signals plans that run beyond a single co-branded card. Samsung has launched its first credit card in the United States, the Samsung Galaxy Card,…
Days after a rival Chinese lab shook Silicon Valley, Alibaba has fired back. The company previewed Qwen3.8, its most powerful model yet, and made a bold claim: it trails only one model on Earth. Alibaba unveiled the model at the World Artificial Intell…
Deutsche Bank, UniCredit, Revolut, Stripe and Adyen made the list. The 12-month trial starts in the second half of 2027, and the money it moves will not be legal tender. The European Central Bank published the list on Tuesday: 36 payment service provid…
OpenAI has spent two years telling people that ChatGPT can answer almost anything. With its latest release, it wants ChatGPT to finish the job instead. The company has introduced ChatGPT Work, an agent inside ChatGPT that it says can take action across…
OpenAI has made GPT-5.6 publicly available after receiving approval from the Trump administration. The release ends weeks in which the model was restricted to a small group of government-vetted partners, CNBC reports. The model family comes in three ti…
Xiaomi has opened a second front in its rapid march into carmaking, confirming on Thursday a new SUV series called Sky Nomad and offering the first proper look at the boxy family hauler that will lead it. The move pushes the smartphone maker squarely i…
Smart-collar maker Fi is putting Starlink in a dog collar. Its new Fi Ultra taps SpaceX’s direct-to-cell satellites. A bolting dog stays trackable even where phone towers cannot reach. The next device to run on satellites is not a phone. It is a dog co…