AI-Data & Emerging Tech

By launching Google AI Plus subscription service to 40 more countries, with an emphasis on areas usually ignored by massive tech rollouts, it makes premium artificial intelligence solutions more accessible. Sitting between Google’s free AI services and its costly Pro and Ultra subscriptions is the AI Plus plan.  Access to the company’s Gemini 2.5 Pro model, improved artificial intelligence integration across Gmail, Docs, and Sheets, and creative uses for photo and video are provided generational types like Flow, Whisk, and Veo 3 Fast. 200 GB of cloud storage distributed over Google Drive, Gmail, and Photos also distinguishes the plan as more than an artificial intelligence portal. But Google is providing promotional pricing, including a 50% discount for the first six months in cert...

With a seed round intended to grow its AI-powered platform that simplifies cybersecurity and compliance for fast-growing tech firms, Mycroft, a Toronto-based business, has raised $3.5 million USD. Luge Capital steered the round with help from Brightspark Ventures, Graphite Ventures, and several returning investors. Adding a prior pre-seed raise, Mycroft’s total funding becomes $4.7 million. Founded in 2024 by Mike Kim, Jonathan Mendes, and Jan Jedrasik, all ex-leaders at PartnerStack, the business is approaching digital security somewhat differently. Mycroft is positioning itself as an AI-powered security and compliance officer rather than presenting yet another complicated dashboard or collection of specialized tools. Built to automate and control formerly manually performed jobs like ...

Emerging as a new company in the U.K. two years ago, Nscale had not yet acquired any outside capital or established its public presence. The London-based company emerged from the shadows last year, and in December, it announced that it had closed its Series A fundraising round. accumulating a total of $155 million. At the leading edge of the most vibrant market in the world, artificial intelligence, Nscale is currently located with almost $700 million in fresh funding from Nvidia, the most valuable firm in the world. Nscale was named as an artificial intelligence infrastructure collaborator for Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI in a press release released on Tuesday, as these businesses expand their activities in the U.K. Following that, Nscale revealed a five-year, $6.2 billion deal with M...

Today’s displays incorporate LEDs either by way of self-emitting pixels like OLED or through backlight techniques like LCD, QLED, and Mini-LED. Still, brightness has always been a constraint, especially in open environments or when a transparent screen is needed.  With profitable Meta’s Q2 earnings, engineers at Meta have created an extremely thin laser-powered panel that raises brightness and color performance to previously unheard-of levels in order to address this problem. Published in Nature, their study details a device only two millimeters thick. Fundamentally, a photonic integrated circuit (PIC), a chip that uses lasers and incorporates thousands of optical elements, is at its core. Providing Full HD resolution (1920 x 1080), this PIC is coupled with a small 5 x 5 mm LCoS (l...

Proudly positioned as OpenAI’s first official Services Partner in the APAC area, Thinking Machines is a leading company focusing on AI consulting and services. This collaboration will help businesses go from simple artificial intelligence research to actual business value. Many companies have trouble expanding their use of artificial intelligence as it sees gains throughout the Asia-Pacific (APAC) markets after the US-Ukraine talks, as seen by surveys showing that 61% of companies are now using AI, pilot programs or turning them into tangible output. Thinking Machines and OpenAI hope to close this gulf by their cooperation. This cooperation will offer executive training in ChatGPT Enterprise, personalized artificial intelligence application development, training with the new mental heal...

By increasing its secondary share sale, OpenAI has made a major move and is now inviting qualified present and former employees to sell around $10.3 billion in value of stock, a rise from the previously set $6 billion. This decision shows the company’s remarkable private valuation of $500 billion. This greater secondary share sale marks a big shift in OpenAI’s employee equity plan. Particularly for those who have owned their shares for more than two years, the sale is being presented as a chance for personnel to gain from their longtime investments. These workers have until the end of September to decide on involvement; final closing is expected in October. Among the well-known investors interested in this transaction are SoftBank Group, Dragoneer Investment Group, Thrive Capital, MGX f...

As early builds are accessible to Release Preview Insiders, Microsoft is taking great strides toward finishing the Windows 11 version 25H2 update. At the same time, the business is addressing growing concerns about reports suggesting recent windows updates might be causing SSD failures. Microsoft and Phison, the maker of SSD controllers, have vehemently refuted any connection between the upgrades and drive malfunctions. Users began reporting odd storage behavior after applying update KB5063878 (Windows 11 version 24H2), with some SSDs and conventional hard drives, in August 2025. It included, strangely disappearing or showing symptoms of data corruption, particularly throughout demanding write activities involving large files on drives that were more than 60% filled. Reacting to thes...

In 2022, Parag Agrawal left Twitter without much of a notice and nearly three years after his departure he re-emerged with an AI venture, Parallel Web Systems. Based in Palo Alto and established in 2023, the company has secured close to $30 million in funding from notable firms such as Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures, and First Round Capital. Parallel aims mostly to give artificial intelligence systems their own public internet entrance, not only to gather data but also to enable them to handle information, have them fetch, check, arrange, and assess confidence in real-time. The company sees AI agents acting as the ‘second user of the web,’ operating with a degree of intent and precision that goes far beyond typical human browsing patterns. With its Deep Research API, which beats bot...

Anthropic has introduced important changes in Claude’s privacy policy and the way it handles consumer-level user data. The group behind the often-used AI chatbot Claude announced on Thursday that it would start training its artificial intelligence with user data unless people chose otherwise by 28 September. Furthermore, revealing that it is extending the data retention policy for communications sent to Claude to five years for consumers, the AI company stated those not opting out of artificial intelligence education. Anthropic previously avoided training its artificial intelligence systems with user messages; hence, the company stated that, unless legally bound to keep them, it would remove all user prompts and results within a 30-day period. Still, in the event of policy violations, t...

For specific SSD and HDD types of systems that are fully updated, the freshly released Windows 11 24H2 upgrades appear to be resulting in data corruption and failure issues. Following the KB5063878 security update and the KB5062660 preview update, a Japanese PC building enthusiast first pointed out this problem on Friday, noting that drives with Phison NAND controllers were disappearing from the operating system during heavy write activities such as big file transfers or numerous files concurrently. Though rebooting the system brought back certain impacted discs, others remained unavailable (read Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes). First highlighting this bug, the user also suspected it might be caused by a drive cache issue brought on by a memory leak in the OS-buffered regio...