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November 1, 2026

Two startup founders in conversation with a podcast host about voice AI for banks and insurers.

Startups1 min read

Desible.ai founders on selling voice AI to Indian banks and insurers

Desible.ai's founders explain on the Prime Venture Partners Podcast what it takes to build and sell agentic voice AI in India's banking, financial services and insurance sector.

Smartphone showing the Gemini app with two friends' AI-generated avatars appearing together in a shared video.

AI1 min read

Google Gemini Lets Friends Appear Together in AI Avatar Videos

Google is adding a social layer to Gemini avatars, letting users share them with friends and appear together in AI-generated images and videos.

A person wearing camera-equipped smart glasses in a public setting, illustrating privacy concerns around Meta's wearable devices.

Security1 min read

Meta Smart Glasses Face Senate Scrutiny Over Privacy Risks

Senators Ron Wyden and Edward Markey have demanded answers from Mark Zuckerberg on the privacy risks of Meta's camera-equipped AI glasses, with a November 25 deadline.

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Courthouse columns beside a digital network graphic symbolizing the legal fight over AI training and copyright.

AINov 1, 2026

Wikimedia Weighs In on New York Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI

Illustration of an ultrashort light pulse striking a honeycomb graphene lattice with glowing electrons in motion.

ScienceNov 1, 2026

German Physicists Film Electrons Moving in Graphene in Real Time

Samsung Intelligent Eyewear AI smart glasses with a stylish frame shown against a neutral background.

MobileNov 1, 2026

Samsung Intelligent Eyewear Smart Glasses Reportedly Launch in December

A smartphone and a television showing the YouTube video player with a sharp, high-quality image.

SoftwareNov 1, 2026

YouTube Prepares New Video Compression to Boost Quality

White and black Arlo Essential 3 2K PTZ indoor security camera on a round base, sitting on a shelf.

HardwareNov 1, 2026

Arlo Essential 3 2K PTZ Indoor: first motorized Arlo camera tested

Elon Musk speaking on stage with a graphic of a piggy bank and AI circuitry in the background.

AINov 1, 2026

Elon Musk Says Saving for Retirement Is Pointless as AI Advances

An almost empty cinema auditorium with a screen showing a futuristic scene inspired by Sanxingdui bronze masks.

AINov 1, 2026

Sanxingdui: Future Past, China's First AI-Made Film, Flops

Pile of wood sawdust next to laboratory glassware, illustrating the conversion of cellulose into bio-based plastic feedstock.

ScienceNov 1, 2026

Korean Team Turns Sawdust Into Plastic Feedstock, Tripling Output

A small bipedal duck-style robot standing on a desk next to a laptop used for AI training.

HardwareNov 1, 2026

Microduck and Rivals: Cheap Robots Lower the Physical AI Bar

Service robots being tested in a mock living room and kitchen at a living lab inside Seoul AI Hub.

AINov 1, 2026

Seoul and SNU Build Physical AX Center for Physical AI Startups

A person wearing wireless earbuds talks to an AI assistant while walking down a city street.

AINov 1, 2026

Why Earbuds May Beat Smart Glasses as the AI Assistant Device

A cat sitting beside an Apple HomePod smart speaker, its paw near the touch surface on top.

HardwareNov 1, 2026

HomePod Lock Controls Setting Aims to Stop Cats Starting Music

Business

Employees working at laptops in a Microsoft campus innovation space with prototype devices on shared tables.

BusinessNov 1, 2026

Microsoft Shuts Down The Garage, Its Internal Innovation Lab

Power lines running past a large data center complex at dusk in the United States.

BusinessNov 1, 2026

Data Centers and Power Bills Collide in US Midterm Races

Teenager looking at a smartphone showing social media apps, symbolizing lawsuits over addictive platform design.

BusinessNov 1, 2026

Meta Settles Second Teen Addiction Case Before Los Angeles Trial

A musician at a home desk with headphones and a laptop showing a Spotify artist page for a newly released track.

BusinessNov 1, 2026

Releasing a Track on Spotify: Costs, Process and Real Earnings

AI

A young engineer working on code at a laptop in a modern Cisco office, with lines of legacy code on screen.

AINov 1, 2026

Cisco Gives Engineer Unlimited AI Tokens to Rewrite Legacy Code

Developers' group chat on a screen with an AI agent automatically proposing a bug fix in code.

AINov 1, 2026

DeepSeek builds 'super-agent' for autonomous coding tasks

A website server rack with a robots.txt file on screen next to logos of major AI companies, illustrating a shared AI training opt-out signal.

AINov 1, 2026

OpenAI, Google and Microsoft back one robots.txt signal for AI training

A robotic surgical rig with manipulator arms positioned over a laboratory mouse during an AI-controlled brain injection experiment.

AINov 1, 2026

Anthropic Claude AI Agent Performs Brain Surgery on a Live Mouse

Startups

Grey co-founder and CEO Idorenyin Obong speaking at a press briefing about African cross-border payment rails.

StartupsNov 1, 2026

Grey builds direct African payment rails to bypass the dollar

A portable solar power station set up outside a small shop in Lagos, replacing a petrol generator.

StartupsNov 1, 2026

Vectar Energy Shifts From Solar Generators to Carbon Markets

Kuala Lumpur skyline at dusk, representing Malaysian investment firm 10 Cents Capital.

StartupsNov 1, 2026

Malaysia's 10 Cents Capital Raises $20m, Brazil Arm Is VIVAMOMENTO

StartupsNov 1, 2026

OpenAI cuts fundraising target to $20 billion as valuation falls

Hardware

A computer mouse with a side scroll wheel positioned beside the thumb rest, shown on a desk next to a spreadsheet on a monitor.

HardwareNov 1, 2026

FCCL FMV Mouse X Puts a Side Scroll Wheel Right Under Your Thumb

Liquid-cooled GPU server racks and a load bank inside KT Cloud's AI Innovation Center at the Mokdong 2 data center in Seoul.

HardwareNov 1, 2026

KT Cloud Builds Its Own Liquid Cooling Tech for AI Data Centers

A tiny silver Casio ring watch styled like the classic A168 digital watch, shown on a finger.

HardwareNov 1, 2026

Casio CRW-002 Ring Watch Shrinks the Cheap Casio A168 Design

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