Microsoft is closing out 2025 by admitting the Microsoft Store’s real problem was usability. A focus on core fixes, like performance and recommendations, has reportedly boosted it to 250 million monthly active users. The question is whether these long-overdue improvements are enough to change its re
OpenAI is rolling out a major update to ChatGPT focused on teen safety. The move comes after the company faced lawsuits alleging the AI coached teens to take their own lives.
While everyone debated AGI, Salient built AI to collect car loans. Its focus on a painful, manual process has led to explosive growth, zero customer churn, and a half-billion dollar valuation. They’re proving that boring AI can be wildly profitable.
AI music companies Suno and Udio are settling copyright lawsuits with major labels, but the deals only protect signed artists. The model rewards infringement and leaves thousands of independent creators uncompensated.
Matt Tengtrakool and Aidan Sunbury, both 21, have raised a $2 million seed round for Givefront. Their startup aims to bring modern spend management to the massive, but often overlooked, nonprofit sector.
The term “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI) is falling out of favor with the very CEOs who built their companies on it. Now, they’re inventing a slew of new acronyms with softer, friendlier branding. The shift is driven by vague definitions, contract drama, and public fear.
Apple is opening Japanese iPhones to third-party app stores and payment processors in 2025, similar to the EU. But a new 5% fee on revenue from competing stores has Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney calling it “malicious compliance,” and he says Fortnite won’t be returning as a result.
Cisco has confirmed a zero-day vulnerability in its AsyncOS-based Secure Email products is being actively exploited. The flaw requires the Spam Quarantine feature to be internet-facing. With no patch available, confirmed compromises may require a full appliance rebuild.
The React2Shell vulnerability is being exploited at an industrial scale. Security teams are already responding to ransomware attacks that used the bug as the initial point of entry.
El Salvador is finally getting its own direct subsea connection. Liberty Networks has been tapped to build a cable linking the country to Panama, with operations slated for the second half of 2028. This ends the nation’s status as the only one in the region without its own international submarine ca
