OpenAI recruits Cognizant and CGI to take Codex into enterprise software shops worldwide
OpenAI recruits Cognizant and CGI to take Codex into enterprise software shops worldwide

OpenAI is building a systems integrator channel for Codex, enlisting large consulting firms to carry the coding agent into organisations it cannot reach through direct sales. Cognizant and CGI are the first named SI partners in the programme, announced…

OpenAI’s Codex for Mac now watches your screen to build context, but sends the screenshots to its servers first
OpenAI’s Codex for Mac now watches your screen to build context, but sends the screenshots to its servers first

Summary: OpenAI’s Codex for Mac has added Chronicle, a research preview feature that periodically captures screenshots, sends them to OpenAI’s servers for processing, and stores text summaries as local unencrypted Markdown files to give the AI assistan…

Semrush launches a framework for measuring brand visibility in AI search as the old SEO playbook breaks down
Semrush launches a framework for measuring brand visibility in AI search as the old SEO playbook breaks down

Summary: Semrush launched a Brand Visibility Framework at Adobe Summit introducing “Agentic Search Optimisation” as a new discipline for measuring brand presence across AI-generated answers, traditional search, and autonomous AI agents, drawing on 213 …

Europe is pouring tens of billions of public money into VC. The hard part is making it work
Europe is pouring tens of billions of public money into VC. The hard part is making it work

The European Investment Fund is raising a €15 billion fund of funds called ETCI 2 that aims to unlock up to €80 billion in scaleup funding across Europe. Germany’s WIN initiative is targeting €12 billion by 2030. France’s Tibi programme has pledged €7 …

Zoom partners with Sam Altman’s World to verify that meeting participants are actually human
Zoom partners with Sam Altman’s World to verify that meeting participants are actually human

Summary: Zoom has partnered with World, Sam Altman’s biometric identity company, to let meeting participants verify they are human using World’s Deep Face technology, which cross-references iris-scanned biometric profiles with live video to display a “…

Uber launches $5 doorstep return pickups for Uber Eats purchases across 5,000 US cities
Uber launches $5 doorstep return pickups for Uber Eats purchases across 5,000 US cities

Uber has launched a service that sends a gig worker to your door to collect items you want to return to a retailer, for $5 a pickup. The feature, called Return a Package, is available in the Uber Eats app across nearly 5,000 US cities and works with ni…

Intel’s new Wildcat Lake chips take aim at the MacBook Neo with AI as the differentiator
Intel’s new Wildcat Lake chips take aim at the MacBook Neo with AI as the differentiator

Intel has launched its Core Series 3 processors, codenamed Wildcat Lake, in what amounts to a direct response to the MacBook Neo. The new chips, announced on 16 April, target the same budget laptop segment that Apple redefined last month with its $599 …

Dropbox brings its files, Dash search, and Reclaim calendar into ChatGPT with three new apps
Dropbox brings its files, Dash search, and Reclaim calendar into ChatGPT with three new apps

The storage company is launching a Dropbox file app, a Dropbox Dash enterprise search app, and a Reclaim AI calendar app inside ChatGPT, letting users access, save, and act on their work without leaving the AI interface. The move is the latest sign tha…

DeepL launches real-time voice-to-voice translation in 40+ languages
DeepL launches real-time voice-to-voice translation in 40+ languages

The Cologne-based translation company best known for its text tools has unveiled a full voice product suite covering meetings, conversations, group settings, and an API for enterprise integration. A live demo in Seoul showed one-to-two sentence delays,…

Samsung turns its smart home into a remote care system for ageing families
Samsung turns its smart home into a remote care system for ageing families

In short: Samsung has updated SmartThings with family care features that use connected appliances and wearables to monitor elderly relatives remotely, including fall detection via robot vacuum camera, cognitive decline screening through behavioural pat…