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by Todd Bishop on Sep 22, 2026 at 10:39 amSeptember 22, 2026 at 10:39 am Amazon and Meta are at odds over AI agents that shop on customers’ behalf. (GeekWire Illustration / GPT 5.6 Sol) Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse AI agent from its store Sunday night, and leaders across the tech industry have spent the past two days debating the bigger questions raised by the move. Among them: whether the big platforms will agree on rules for agents crossing into each other’s territory, how money will change hands when they do, and how many people will actually want AI agents…
Helsinki, Finland-based neocloud outfit Verda Cloud Oy, formerly DataCrunch, today announced it has raised $189 million in early-stage funding to expand its artificial intelligence cloud infrastructure, from AI compute capacity to platform services. Emergence Capital led the Series B round, with additional investments from MUFG Innovation Partners, Supermicro, Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Co., Lifeline Ventures, 6 Degrees Capital, byFounders and Tesi. A group of angel investors, including Ola Tørudbakken, director of AI systems at Meta Platforms Inc., and Core Automation co-founder Mark Saroufim also joined the round. The funding brings the company’s total raised to more than $450 million in…
Our top five content syndication networks that help B2B brands capture buyer attention, build mindshare, and convert content engagement into qualified pipeline. Every B2B brand has a whitepaper, buyer guide, webinar, research report, or opinion piece waiting to be promoted. Every marketing team has a distribution plan. Every vendor promises access to an audience that is supposedly ready to engage. And yet, many campaigns produce the same result: a large spreadsheet, a short burst of activity, and very little movement in the pipeline. This is the problem with treating content syndication as a traffic exercise. Content syndication should not simply…
As the heads of leading artificial intelligence companies came together last weekend to warn that runaway AI development could lead to catastrophic outcomes, momentum briefly seemed to be building for regulatory action from Washington.But one connected and influential tech industry figure has become the leading voice opposing many proposals for government action — on his podcast, in media appearances, and in his private advice to President Donald Trump, who now calls AI doomsday fears a “hoax.”David Sacks is a venture capitalist and part of the “PayPal Mafia” who, in recent years, has exemplified the rightward shift of some in the…
Malware already running on a Mac can quietly take over Meta’s Muse assistant and use the broad access its owner granted the app, security researcher Patrick Wardle has shown in a proof-of-concept released on September 21. It works by changing a hidden setting so that when the user taps the microphone and dictates a prompt, the words go to the attacker instead of Meta. The flaw is in the Mac version of Muse, and it only works if an attacker can already run code as the logged-in user. It cannot break into a Mac on its own. But Wardle told The Hacker…
T-Mobile for Business is the upgrade a small business owner will find useful, with unlimited plans, a super-fast 5G network, and customer support whenever you need it. With no data overages, surprise fees, or annual service contracts, there’s an affordable plan for any type of business. Plus, without an annual contract, you’re never locked into anything long term, and as your business changes and grows, your plan can change too.With T-Mobile for Business, you can focus on your growing business, knowing you’ll have unlimited data and texting in over 215 countries, four full-flight Wi-Fi sessions per year, and unlimited one-hour…
Unplugging your PC during a blackout might be exactly what saves it. Om.Nom.Nom/Shutterstock Power outages don’t usually come with a schedule. And when one hits, most people focus on finding the nearest flashlight rather than thinking about their electronics. But if your PC is still plugged into the wall when the lights come back, it could be in danger. Many assume that a PC (unwillingly) shutting down is enough to keep it safe during an outage, but it isn’t. Even a powered-off computer remains connected to your home’s electrical wiring, and that connection is exactly how…
SpaceX Corp. today introduced Grok 4.7, its most capable large language model to date. The Grok algorithm series was originally created by an Elon Musk-founded startup called xAI Corp. Musk merged the company with xAI Inc. last year. The combined organization was subsequently folded into SpaceX, which gained not only the Grok model series but also multiple artificial intelligence data centers. The company evaluated Grok 4.7 using a benchmark called CursorBench 4.0. It was developed by Cursor, another of SpaceX’s recent acquisitions. Grok 4.7 completed the challenges in the benchmark for an average cost of $4.69 per task, which put…
Most marketing teams have rolled out AI tools. Far fewer have changed how they work with them in their jobs.
Napster is entering the education field. The former music-streaming giant, now an AI company, plans to use AI to produce what it calls “digital twins” of teachers who can answer students’ questions outside of school hours. Last week, Napster announced a partnership with the United Arab Emirates’ GEMS Education, one of the largest private K-12 school operators in the Middle East, that includes plans to develop and test digital teacher personas to provide multilingual, 24/7 support for students. The program would be based on Napster Learn, which uses a clip-on AI assistant, Napster View to interact with users. The program…