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Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies

Elon Musk once proposed handing control of OpenAI to his children—a revelation that surfaced during Sam Altman's testimony in the ongoing legal battle between the two tech titans. The disclosure, made in a San Francisco courtroom this week, offers a rare glimpse into the power struggles that shaped

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Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator

Digg is back. Again. The once-dominant link aggregator that defined Web 2.0 social news just pivoted from Reddit clone to AI news curator in under six months — a move that says more about where developer tools are heading than it does about Digg's survival instincts. When AI development tools Asia f

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The new AI-powered Google Finance is expanding to Europe.

Google just rolled out its AI-powered Finance platform across Europe this week, complete with Deep Search, live earnings transcripts, and technical charting that goes far beyond what retail investors had even five years ago. If you're building fintech products in Asia, this expansion is a signal: AI

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Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future

Offices across Asia are about to get a lot quieter—or a lot weirder, depending on how you look at it. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on a shift that's already underway in Silicon Valley and spreading fast: developers are ditching their keyboards for dictation apps, whispering to their com

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Voice AI in India is hard. Wispr Flow is betting on it anyway.

Wispr Flow just made a big bet on India's voice AI market — and if they're right, it could reshape how AI development tools Asia founders think about multilingual product strategy. The Bay Area startup announced accelerated growth in India after rolling out Hinglish support, the hybrid Hindi-English

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So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that

You're in a standup meeting. Someone says "we need better RAG for our LLM to reduce hallucinations." Three people nod. You nod too. Nobody admits they have no idea what just happened. The AI boom has created a linguistic minefield where acronyms multiply faster than you can Google them, and admittin

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Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no.

Oracle's mass layoff in late March 2026 — reportedly affecting 20,000 to 30,000 employees — ended with a severance fight that reveals how corporate giants treat developers when the chips are down. Some workers discovered they didn't qualify for WARN Act protections because Oracle had classified them

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See what happens when creative legends use AI to make ads for small businesses.

Three advertising legends just proved something most small business owners didn't think possible: you can produce studio-quality campaigns without a studio budget. Google's newly launched initiative, The Small Brief, pairs creative directors Jayanta Jenkins, Tiffany Rolfe, and Susan Credle with loca

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Why you can never get your doctor to call you back

You've been waiting three weeks for a specialist appointment. Your primary care doctor sent the referral, you left two voicemails, and still — nothing. The problem isn't that your doctor doesn't care. It's that somewhere between the referral and the scheduler's desk, your case hit a wall of manual a

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Voi founders’ new AI startup Pit has become the latest rising star out of Stockholm

Stockholm's startup scene just produced another AI heavyweight. Pit, the new venture from Voi's founding team, closed a $16 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz — proving that European founders can compete for Silicon Valley capital even when pivoting into the crowded AI development tools A

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5 gardening tips you can try right in Search

Google just dropped five gardening tips powered by AI Mode and Search Live — and if you think this has nothing to do with AI development tools Asia, you're missing the forest for the trees. The way Google is shipping visual AI tools for gardening in 2026 mirrors exactly how developers in Southeast A

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Peter Sarlin’s QuTwo reaches $380M valuation in angel round

A Finnish AI lab just hit a $380 million valuation with an angel round — no venture capital required. QuTwo, founded by former AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, raised €25 million ($29 million) from angels and is now valued at €325 million. The company's quantum-inspired computing approach and early ent