October 2026

Character.AI, the once-buzzy chatbot startup that faced high-profile lawsuits over the deaths of minors, has declared bankruptcy. Character.AI announced last night that it had entered a “voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process” and is looking to sell the company in a court-supervised sale. “Over the past year, we’ve taken meaningful steps to sustain and improve our […]

New products from Apple include the HomeView, an iPad-like device that acts as a hub for other smart home gadgets Apple on Tuesday began showing off a ⁠new round of smart home products, including an iPad-like device dubbed the HomeView, meant to hang on walls or perch on tabletops ⁠and act as a hub for

Last week, a video came across my feed of a man saying horny lines over a dubstep beat. “On your knees,” he snarled. As the beat dropped, he growled, “Mmm, now look at me.”  “Instagram reels just showed me a guy who makes ‘smutstep’ for the booktok crowd and it is the funniest thing I

Sorry for the late newsletter today, we’re still a little sleepy. To ease you into this afternoon, I have an interview with the guy who coined the term “smutstep,” and has become a sensation among a very specific section of dark romance BookTok — as well as a lot of haters. I thought he had

Physical AI needs context about its surroundings to adapt beyond a fixed set of instructions. Munich-based Spranic is building a spatial memory layer that records physical spaces and how they change. Connecting that information with knowledge graphs could help robots interpret their environments across different tasks, according to Jordi Spranger (pictured), founder and chief executive

Huge rated High, the top of four rating levels, across all 13 capabilities assessed in the report Huge, an independent, human-first, AI-native design and technology company, today announced that it has been named in the Gartner® report “Cutting-Edge Providers to Watch in Intelligent Products and Services Innovation Services,” authored by Robert Brown and published Sept.

Credit: Ramirez-Esquivel et al 202 Credit: Ramirez-Esquivel et al 202 Honey bees are known to leave their stingers embedded in tender flesh once they sting you and fly away. Scientists have now determined that the stinger is able to continue pumping venom into its unfortunate victim even after the bee flies away, thanks to a

Nine in 10 security and engineering leaders say the traditional annual pentest is dead, and continuous AI pentesting is now required to keep pace with how quickly organizations ship code Only 4% say their testing frequency gives them sufficient coverage, while 42% accept the risk and ship code without additional security checks between pentests 92%

Ketch unifies consent, rights, and marketing signals in one platform for a growth-first approach to data permissioning across the enterprise Ketch, the AI Privacy Company, has been named a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Privacy UX, positioning the company furthest in “Completeness of Vision” and highest for “Ability to Execute.” This

A powerful frontier model isn’t the primary differentiator of your systems. Context is: an understanding of your catalog, performance data, business goals, operational constraints, how your best merchandisers make decisions. In this virtual workshop with Coveo we map the five stages between one-off prompts and trusted delegation, and provide a live demo of Coveo’s Merchandising