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The rise of vibe coding is pushing software teams to build faster than ever before, but enterprise buyers demand systems that can survive audits and operational risk. The result is a new kind of software race, one where the finish line is no longer a working demo but a defensible system of record. Enterprise automation company Appian Corp. is now aiming to turn AI-assisted creation into a governed workflow, according to Medhat Galal (pictured), senior vice president of engineering at Appian. That means speed alone is no longer the benchmark — rigor is. “It takes the right level of rigor from the…
Beijing just blocked Meta’s $2B Manus’ deal, citing national security. Is this the end of global AI exits? The tech war just got very real. The global tech tug-of-war just hit a whole new level of “it’s complicated.” In a move that feels like a scene straight out of a geopolitical thriller, China has officially stepped in to block Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an AI startup that’s essentially the poster child for agentic AI. If you haven’t been following the Manus saga, here’s the gist: the company claims to have built the world’s first truly general AI agent-…
This is so “peak 2026” – writing an equality policy to ensure people treat our AI bot with the same respect as they do their human counterparts. It’s intentionally a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it’s there for a purpose: we simply don’t have the capacity to deal with every request we get, and we need Bruce to be the coalface of support. I did wonder, when having ChatGPT create this, whether there’s some deeper psychology behind the importance of interacting politely with bots, or indeed whether there will ever be an actual (like, serious) standard or law around treating bots with…
A modder has turned a Game Boy Color into something you can wear on your wrist, and it’s not just borrowing the look. This is an actual, playable retro console slapped onto your wrist. YouTuber LeggoMyFroggo managed to squeeze a fully functional Game Boy Color into a wristwatch-sized form factor, creating one of the more bizarre yet impressive retro builds in recent memory. LeggoMyFroggo How’d he cram a Game Boy Color into a tiny watch? In the YouTube video, modder Chris Hackmann called the project “Time Frog Color”. Rather than going for a simpler route of relying on emulation, the…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, and President Greg Brockman as photographed through the windows of the federal courthouse in Oakland as they arrived for jury selection in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. (GeekWire Photos / Todd Bishop) OAKLAND — Did Microsoft knowingly help OpenAI abandon its nonprofit mission? That question sits at the center of a trial starting here this week, pitting the world’s richest man against the AI nonprofit he helped found and the tech giant that bankrolled its transformation. It’s being called the “AI Trial of the Century,” with Elon Musk and Sam Altman in…
Squarespace helps small businesses and regular Joe Schmoes to get software help to build their own websites (for both personal and business), even including the commerce side of things with point of sale, inventory, and customer data features (both online or in person). In the age where literally everything is digitized and accessed through the World Wide Web, having an online presence is the most important thing you can do for your business or brand’s growth. Creating a website can be difficult, with the HTMLs and coding and what not—that’s where Squarespace comes in. And we’ve found some of the…
Microsoft’s privileged entry into OpenAI’s technology circle is being downgraded significantly. It’s neither a divorce nor a full separation. More like, the tech industry’s most valuable artificial intelligence partnership is now simply going steady with other clouds.In the tech sector, that is a huge deal. For years Microsoft’s initial investment in OpenAI has helped to make Azure one of the cornerstones of the artificial intelligence boom. Now it may have to let some of its customers visit other roads.Microsoft will not be booted from the partnership altogether. Far from it. OpenAI’s press release describing a new chapter for the partnership…
Images and details about Samsung’s upcoming smart glasses have leaked, . We knew these were , but we now have what could be actual photos and they look pretty nifty. The glasses are reportedly being developed under the codename “Jinju” and could cost anywhere from $380 to $500.These are the first smart glasses from Samsung and look to offer a similar feature set to stuff like and the forthcoming . Samsung’s specs will run on the and will likely feature heavy integration with the Google Gemini chatbot.It has been reported that these glasses will not feature a display, but that’s…
OpenAI Group PBC and Microsoft Corp. have revised several sections of the contract that governs their technology partnership. The update, which was announced today, is at least the third that the companies have made since the start of 2025. The partnership began in June 2019 with a $1 billion investment from Microsoft. Four years later, it became OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider. The companies dropped the exclusivity clause last January, but kept many parts of the original agreement. One of the sections that remained unchanged relates to OpenAI’s application programming interface. Developers use the API to integrate the company’s AI models…
Thomas Trutschel/Getty ImagesHave trouble logging into your email on Monday? You may not be alone. Microsoft Outlook users reported problems signing in to the email client at the start of the week, with reports beginning just before 5 a.m. ET Monday. But the company says it’s found a fix after several hours of login issues.Microsoft reported Monday on its status page that people logging into Outlook.com might experience intermittent failures, including “too many requests” issues. Others may have found themselves unexpectedly signed out. The company tracked repeated efforts to fix the errors on its status page and the Microsoft 365 Status…