Nvidia opens up Alpamayo 2, a driving model that reasons out loud
Nvidia opens up Alpamayo 2, a driving model that reasons out loud

Nvidia wants self-driving cars to explain themselves. The company has released Alpamayo 2 Super, an open AI model for robotaxis that does not just plan a route but reasons about why, and it is now available for commercial use. The model is Nvidia’s pit…

Revolut partners with OpenAI to bundle ChatGPT Go into its subscriptions
Revolut partners with OpenAI to bundle ChatGPT Go into its subscriptions

Revolut is handing its customers free access to ChatGPT, the result of a new partnership with OpenAI. The fintech, which says it now serves more than 75 million people worldwide, is bundling OpenAI’s ChatGPT Go into its subscription plans, giving anywh…

Most accelerators make atartups worse. What do the good ones do?
Most accelerators make atartups worse. What do the good ones do?

Every accelerator makes a version of the same offer: capital, mentorship, a network, three months of support, and materially better odds of survival. Evidence suggests that little of it actually works. In April, Youn Baek and Deepak Hegde of NYU Stern …

Garmin launches the CIRQA, a screen-free Whoop rival that skips the membership fee
Garmin launches the CIRQA, a screen-free Whoop rival that skips the membership fee

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’s newest data pipeline runs beneath the Atlantic to Portugal
Google’s newest data pipeline runs beneath the Atlantic to Portugal

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 Health Assistant arrives in beta for US users
Samsung Health Assistant arrives in beta for US users

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…

Samsung launches its first US credit card with Barclays, its deepest move into finance yet
Samsung launches its first US credit card with Barclays, its deepest move into finance yet

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,…

Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is the world’s No.2 AI model. It has shown no proof.
Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is the world’s No.2 AI model. It has shown no proof.

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…

ECB names 36 payment firms for the digital euro pilot
ECB names 36 payment firms for the digital euro pilot

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 launches ChatGPT Work, an agent built to finish the job
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an agent built to finish the job

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…