Google’s latest Android 16 QPR2 update is quietly supercharging the Pixel 10 Pro XL. Benchmarks show a massive 19.6% improvement in real-world performance, making the phone feel significantly faster.
Snowflake is doubling down on data quality. Its venture arm has made a strategic equity investment in Ataccama, a data governance and quality management provider, signaling a deeper integration to meet soaring demand for reliable data to fuel AI applications and agents.
Evertrust, a profitable French cybersecurity firm, just secured €10 million in Series A funding from US VC Elephant. The company is one of only four global vendors with a unified PKI and CLM platform, and it’s planning a major European expansion.
A new startup called Casera is spinning out of Pioneer Square Labs to tackle hospital bottlenecks. Its AI software aims to automate the work of case managers, chasing down tasks like insurance approvals to get patients home faster.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has officially filed a trademark application for “Starlink Mobile” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The move suggests a direct foray into consumer cellular services, building on its existing partnership with T-Mobile and a recent $17 billion spectrum deal.
Generative AI has thrown the stock photography industry into chaos. But according to Shutterstock’s head of AI, it might be more of a powerful new tool than a death sentence for human creatives.
Thunderbird 146 is now available, featuring a new OpenPGP keyserver setting and modernized account cryptography. The bigger story is the long list of bug fixes and the parallel update to the stable ESR version.
Samsung’s upcoming mixed reality headset could get a killer feature from Google. The tech, called Auto Spatialization, promises to convert flat 2D content into immersive 3D automatically.
Google is forcefully denying a report that claims it’s planning to introduce ads into its Gemini AI chatbot by 2026. The company says it has “no current plans” for Gemini ads, even as it tests them in other AI products. This comes as rival ChatGPT is also reportedly exploring ad integrations.
At re:Invent 2025, AWS announced major upgrades to its Marketplace, including AI-powered search and bundled solutions. Partners like Presidio and Deloitte are already seeing faster deals and bigger sales through the platform.
