Author: Naveed Ahmad

A lot has modified for Jenny Wang, the founder who’s bringing “Clueless” vogue tech to life.  Final yr, her firm, Alta, raised $11 million in a spherical led by Menlo Ventures to let customers create digital closets and check out on their garments with their very own digital avatars. It’s a tech as soon as seen solely in motion pictures, most notably in “Clueless,” the place Cher types and plans her outfits utilizing laptop know-how. Alta is just like that, permitting customers to plan and elegance outfits utilizing the most recent AI improvements. A slew of massive names participated in…

On Saturday, designer Kate Barton will unveil her newest assortment at New York Style Week — with a twist, after all. Barton teamed up with Fiducia AI to create a multilingual AI agent (constructed with IBM Watsonx on IBM Cloud) to assist visitors determine items of the gathering and take a look at them on just about.  TechCrunch caught up with Barton and Ganesh Harinath, the founder and CEO of Fiducia AI, earlier than the present to study extra in regards to the presentation.  For one, Barton stated know-how is baked into how she thinks. She likes enjoying with the…

India has cleared a $1.1 billion state-backed enterprise capital program that may channel authorities cash into startups by means of personal buyers, doubling down on its effort to finance high-risk areas resembling synthetic intelligence, superior manufacturing and different sectors broadly referred to by the trade as deep tech. First outlined within the January 2025 price range speech by India’s finance minister, the ₹100 billion fund gained cupboard approval this week (greater than a yr after the speech), permitting the federal government to maneuver forward with deployment. A earlier iteration of this system, launched in 2016, dedicated ₹100 billion to 145…

Meta plans so as to add facial recognition to its good glasses as quickly as this yr, in accordance with a brand new report from The New York Times. The characteristic, internally often known as “Title Tag,” would enable good glasses wearers to determine individuals and get details about them by Meta’s AI assistant. Meta’s plans may change, the report notes. The tech large has been deliberating since early final yr on find out how to launch a characteristic that carries “security and privateness dangers.” In accordance with an inner memo, the corporate had initially deliberate to launch Title Tag…

Ring, the Amazon-owned residence safety firm, announced on Thursday that it’ll not accomplice with Flock Security, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras that share footage with regulation enforcement. The 2 corporations introduced a deal in October that will have allowed Ring doorbell customers to share footage with Flock and its community of public security businesses to help with “proof assortment and investigative work.” As reported by 404 Media, Flock’s footage has been utilized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Secret Service, and the Navy, which all have had entry to Flock’s tens of hundreds of AI-enabled cameras. (Flock maintains…

Dutch telephone firm Odido has confirmed an information breach affected hundreds of thousands of its clients. The corporate stated in a statement Thursday that unidentified hackers gained entry to its buyer contact system and covertly downloaded reams of buyer info. A spokesperson for Odido informed local Dutch media that the breach impacts greater than 6.2 million clients, or a couple of third of the nation’s inhabitants. The stolen information consists of buyer names, telephone numbers, postal and e-mail addresses, dates of beginning, checking account numbers (IBAN), and particulars of consumers’ government-issued IDs, resembling passport or driver’s license numbers and dates…

Elon Musk is addressing a wave of exits from xAI, together with two extra co-founders who left this week, bringing the whole to 6 out of the unique 12. At an all-hands assembly Tuesday night time, Musk urged the exits had been about match, not efficiency. “As a result of we’ve reached a sure scale, we’re organizing the corporate to be more practical at this scale,” he stated, according to The New York Times. “And truly, when this occurs, there’s some people who find themselves higher fitted to the early levels of an organization and fewer fitted to the later…

As Valentine’s Day approaches at Stanford, some college students could also be gearing up for first dates — not with folks they met on Tinder or Hinge, however with matches from a service known as Date Drop, designed by Stanford graduate pupil Henry Weng. Date Drop pairs college students with potential dates as soon as per week primarily based on their responses to a questionnaire. A Stanford whiz child is attempting to disrupt a longtime trade from his Palo Alto dorm? Cease me if you’ve heard this one earlier than! However younger adults are deeply disillusioned with the irritating, demoralizing…

Roku shared its fourth-quarter earnings for 2025 this week, in addition to some thrilling plans within the pipeline. The corporate is rolling out new streaming bundles, increasing its $3 subscription service, Howdy, to extra platforms, and partnering with extra premium streaming providers following the profitable addition of HBO Max. Launching bundles in 2026 is a brilliant transfer, because it may appeal to extra viewers searching for engaging offers amid rising subscription costs. Many streaming platforms have been growing their charges lately, and Roku goals to enchantment to cost-conscious customers. The optimistic affect of HBO Max on Roku’s premium subscriptions has…

Anthropic’s Tremendous Bowl advertisements — which characteristic darkly comedic situations of individuals searching for recommendation from chatbots, solely to be steered to “cougar” courting websites and height-boosting insoles — have been paying off. Within the days since, Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude has climbed from No. 41 on the U.S. App Retailer to change into a prime 10 app. As of Friday, Claude sits at No. 7 — its highest rank thus far — suggesting its “no advertisements” pitch resonates strongly with customers. In response to new knowledge from market intelligence supplier Appfigures, Claude’s U.S. downloads throughout each iOS and Android…