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Apple has announced a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for its Watch Series 8, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra models, marking a strategic return of the health-monitoring tool following a U.S. import ban. The update comes as part of a software tweak that shifts blood oxygen calculations from the Apple Watch to the paired iPhone….
Google on Thursday unveiled Flight Deals, a new AI-driven tool within Google Flights designed to help travelers find cheaper fares more efficiently. The feature targets “flexible travelers” by allowing users to type natural language queries, such as “week-long trip this winter to a city with great food, nonstop only” or “10-day ski trip to a…
Startup Palabra AI, founded in 2023 by Artem Kukharenko and Alexander Kabakov, is addressing one of the most complex problems in AI: real-time speech translation. Unlike text translation, which large language models (LLMs) handle efficiently, speech translation requires instantaneous language switching while maintaining natural, human-like voice quality. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, whose venture firm Seven…
Crypto payments network Mesh has raised over $130 million in a funding round led by top investors, including PayPal Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uphold, ByBit’s Mirana Ventures, and SBI Investment. The capital will support Mesh’s expansion in the global payments market, enhancing its infrastructure and product offerings. 🚨 Excited to share we’ve raised our total funding…
Standard Chartered has sharply raised its Ethereum (ETH) price forecast for 2025 to $7,500, up from a previous $4,000 target. The British bank cited robust institutional buying and accelerating stablecoin adoption as key drivers for the bullish outlook. According to the report shared with Cointelegraph, treasury companies and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have acquired 3.8% of…
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest state-directed fund, has significantly increased its indirect exposure to Bitcoin (BTC), according to crypto research firm K33 Research. Over the past year, the fund’s holdings surged by 192%, now encompassing 7,161 BTC through investments in companies like Strategy, Metaplanet, and crypto exchange Coinbase. The fund currently holds over…
Asia-Pacific stocks ended the session on a broadly positive note Wednesday, following gains on Wall Street. Investors responded to U.S. inflation data that has raised expectations the Federal Reserve could lower interest rates next month, boosting sentiment across the region. Japan’s Nikkei 225 led the rally, closing at a record high of 43,274.67, up 1.3%,…
France, the United Kingdom, and Germany have signaled their support for reinstating U.N. “snapback” sanctions on Iran if Tehran fails to re-engage in nuclear negotiations, according to a report by the Financial Times. The letter, delivered to the U.N. Security Council and Secretary-General António Guterres, underscores the urgency ahead of an end-of-August deadline for renewed…
AI search engine Perplexity has reportedly offered $34.5 billion in cash to acquire Google Chrome, according to Reuters and confirmed by Perplexity to TechCrunch. The unsolicited bid promises to keep Chrome’s underlying engine, Chromium, open source, with an additional $3 billion investment to support the project. Perplexity is also pledging not to alter Chrome’s user…
Sam Altman, co-founder of OpenAI, is reportedly preparing to launch a new brain-to-computer interface startup named Merge Labs. According to unnamed sources cited by the Financial Times, the company is already in early fundraising stages, with potential capital support coming largely from OpenAI’s ventures team. Merge Labs is expected to be valued at around $850…