Apple iPhone just had its best year in India as the smartphone market stays broadly flat

Apple shipped a record 14 million iPhones in India in 2025 and gained market share.

Meta pauses teen access to AI characters ahead of new version

Meta will developed new versions of AI characters that will give age-appropriate responses.

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts.

New research looks at how leading AI models hold up doing actual white-collar work tasks, drawn from consulting, investment banking, and law. Most models failed.

Humans& thinks coordination is the next frontier for AI, and they’re building a model to prove it

Humans&, a new startup founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, is building the next generation of foundation models for collaboration, not chat.

Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference — and it’s paying off

Quadric aims to help companies and governments build programmable on-device AI chips that can run fast-changing models locally.

Sources: Project SGLang spins out as RadixArk with $400M valuation as inference market explodes

SGLang, which originated as an open source research project at Ion Stoica’s UC Berkeley lab, has raised capital from Accel.

Exclusive: ChatGPT is driving podcast discovery on Spotify and it’s a big shift

For millions of users, the Spotify experience is heavily driven by algorithmic discovery. But thanks to the recent integration with ChatGPT, more users are taking an conversation route to discover new podcasts.
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UStrive security lapse exposed personal data of its users, including children

The online mentoring site UStrive exposed email addresses, phone numbers, and other non-public information to other logged-in users. The nonprofit told TechCrunch that the issue is now fixed, but wouldn’t commit to alerting affected individuals.