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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman straight-up called r/popular garbage and said the company is killing it off to replace the default feed with AI-powered personalization that actually matches what different users want to see. The feed has been around since 2017, but Huffman says it creates a fake...

Samsung teamed up with Amazon Prime Video, Microsoft Xbox, and Bethesda to turn its TVs into the main spot for everything Falltoo related, and the whole thing launched around Season Two, dropping on Prime Video. The company is giving away the entire first season for free on Samsung TV Plus...

Micron decided to axe the Crucial brand after decades of selling budget RAM and SSDs to regular people because AI companies keep throwing insane money at memory chips. The shift frees up supply for enterprise customers like OpenAI and Microsoft, who apparently need way more high-bandwidth memory...

WordPress took its experimental Telex thing from concept to actual production in like three months, and Matt Mullenweg showed off live business sites at State of the Word that used the AI platform to build pricing calculators and store directories through plain language prompts. The vibe-coding...

OpenAI grabbed Neptune, a startup that makes monitoring and debugging tools for training AI models, and the whole thing sounds like a pretty calculated infrastructure move. Neptune had been collaborating with OpenAI on metrics dashboards for foundation model teams before the acquisition went...

AWS dropped point-and-click tools for building custom AI models at re:Invent, and the serverless approach through Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI lets developers either use a guided interface or just describe what they want in plain language. The agent-led feature handles fine-tuning...

Google Photos just dropped its yearly recap thing, but this time, Gemini AI digs through your entire camera roll to pull out what it thinks actually mattered instead of just whatever got the most engagement. The system looks at patterns around your hobbies and relationships while analyzing photo...

Amazon dropped a new Fire TV thing where you can tell Alexa Plus to find specific movie scenes just by describing them out loud, and it actually jumps right to that moment instead of making you scrub through the whole film. The system uses Amazon Nova and Anthropic Claude to figure out what you...

Microsoft shares dropped over 2% after word got out that the company slashed sales targets for Azure AI Foundry because teams kept missing their numbers last fiscal year. The platform lets businesses build autonomous AI agents that handle tasks without humans babysitting them, but getting...

Kuwait just made hawala operations illegal after the Cabinet signed off on changes to the Commercial Licensing Law. The amendment targets informal money transfer networks that move cash outside official banks and exchange companies, and violators can face up to six months in jail plus fines...

AWS just dropped something called AI Factories for governments and big companies that need to keep their data locked down while running massive AI stuff. The setup drops dedicated infrastructure straight into customer data centers and comes loaded with NVIDIA chips, Trainium processors, and all...

AWS rolled out new P6e-GB300 UltraServers that pack NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 chips, and these bad boys are getting hyped as the beefiest GPU setup you can grab on Amazon EC2 right now. The hardware handles massive AI models with a trillion parameters, which basically means it can run those fancy...

Rubrik Inc. just set up shop in Saudi Arabia by teaming up with Echelon Digital Group, and this marks the company's first real local footprint in the country. The partnership will roll out data protection and cyber-recovery tools for big players in energy, finance, and government sectors across...

Red Hat and AWS teamed up to run generative AI workloads on custom Amazon silicon like Inferentia2 and Trainium3 instead of relying purely on Nvidia GPUs. The setup uses Red Hat AI Inference Server with vLLM optimization to handle any model while cutting costs by 30 to 40 percent compared to...

CyberKnight just locked down a partnership with Horizon3.ai to push automated penetration testing across the Middle East and North Africa. The deal got announced at Black Hat with Matt Percival and Tamer Odeh from Horizon3.ai meeting up with CyberKnight's CEO Avinash Advani and Chief Strategy...

Zoho dropped a bunch of upgrades to Zoho One that bundle its 50 apps into customizable Spaces for personal tasks, company-wide comms, and department functions like HR or finance. The revamped dashboard pulls data from Zoho and third-party tools into one view, and there is a new visual collab...

Thales and Arab International Optronics locked in a renewed deal to push Egypt toward tech independence and turn the country into a regional manufacturing hub. The French defense giant is dropping over 800 engineers into the mix to build locally made systems, and the partnership covers...

Veeam and HPE just beefed up their partnership with a bunch of new tools aimed at making data backup way less painful for big companies. The big ticket item is a beta plugin that lets Veeam protect VMs running on HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, and they are also bundling HPE Private Cloud Business...

AMD might drop new X3D chips that actually let you game hard without tanking your productivity scores. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 and Ryzen 7 9850X3D are rumored to use fresh Zen 5 CCDs that could hit 5.6 GHz or maybe even 6.0 GHz, and the idea is to match the regular 9950X in multi-core tasks while...

ASUS might be sitting on a major data breach after the Everest ransomware crew said it yanked about a terabyte of internal files from the company. The group dropped directory screenshots showing what appear to be firmware repos, dev materials, and engineering docs, but ASUS has not confirmed...