AI coding company Cursor launched a new model this week called Composer 2, which it promoted as offering “frontier-level coding intelligence.” However, an X user posting under the name Fynn soon claimed that Composer 2 was “just Kimi 2.5” with additional reinforcement learning — Kimi 2.5 being an open source model recently released by Moonshot…
Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro pros and cons Pros Comfortable Incredible sound Great Galaxy integration Cons No upgrades to battery Few notable software upgrades Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I commented a few weeks ago that Samsung’s new Galaxy Buds 4 Pro are boring. And, they are, but that’s not an inherently…
Ekaterina Demidova/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Companies are exploring AI agents in multiple ways. Professionals must consider how to exploit these technologies. Measurement, collaboration, and experimentation are key. AI agents will impact every professional role. If your company hasn’t started using agents yet, it will…
An anonymous Substack post published this week accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations, potentially exposing those customers to “criminal liability under HIPAA and hefty fines under GDPR.” Delve is a Y Combinator-backed startup that last year announced raising a $32 million Series A…
Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Android and iPhone users can now share files quickly and easily. Currently, only Pixel 10 phones support the feature. Google says it will expand the tech to other Android devices. I use an iPhone as my primary mobile device. From my phone,…
Shortly after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced AWS’s groundbreaking $50 billion investment deal with OpenAI, Amazon invited me on a private tour of the chip development lab at the heart of the deal, at (mostly*) its own expense. Industry experts are watching Amazon’s Trainium chip, created at that facility, for its implications for lower-cost AI…
ZDNET’s key takeaways Pros: Removes personal info from data brokers, ongoing monitoring, easy setup Cons: Some features locked behind higher tiers, can’t clean certain data Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Whether you realize it or not, your personal information is likely somewhere online. Massive data breaches over the years have poured millions…
Well, the data is out. AI startups accounted for 41% of the $128 billion in venture dollars raised by companies on Carta last year — a record-high annual share. In a sense, though, we knew that. Investors last year were voracious in deploying capital to AI startups, to the point that 10% of startups accounted for…
For decades, humans have sought to harness the power of the stars to generate electricity here on Earth. And for nearly as long, achieving that goal always seemed just a decade away. Now, a slew of startups are closer than ever before and rushing to build fusion reactors capable of putting power on the grid….
This week, a topic that has been boomeranging around Silicon Valley bounced into the spotlight: AI tokens as compensation. The idea is straightforward enough — rather than giving engineers only salary, equity, and bonuses, companies would also hand them a budget of AI tokens, the computational units that power tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini….