Author: Naveed Ahmad

Provide chains are messy. San Francisco-based startup Loop isn’t content material serving to firms merely clear up their provide chains. As an alternative, the startup is utilizing AI to supply firms predictive, and even prescriptive, treatments — nearly like a perfect healthcare supplier. “I do an annual checkup, and it’s like, oh I ought to be strolling extra,” Loop co-founder and CTO Shaosu Liu stated in an interview. “However that’s not the top purpose, proper? The top purpose is somebody educating me about vitamin, somebody educating me about longevity.” The strategy helped Loop safe a $95 million Sequence C funding…

Netflix goes to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed inside its apps this month, and plans to make use of AI broadly for content material creation and suggestions, the corporate mentioned on Thursday. Netflix has been testing a vertical video feed since final yr. The brief video function may help customers with discovering video podcasts, together with the present slate of exhibits and flicks. The corporate can also be leaning extra into utilizing AI for suggestions after launching a ChatGPT-powered search function final yr. “We have now been in personalization and suggestion for twenty years, however we nonetheless see great…

Regardless of lately being designated a supply-chain danger by the Pentagon, Anthropic remains to be speaking to high-level members of the Trump administration. There have been earlier indicators of a thawing relationship — or a way that not each a part of the administration wished to chop off Anthropic — with stories saying that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have been encouraging the heads of main banks to check out Anthropic’s new Mythos mannequin. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark appeared to verify this, claiming that the continuing combat over the supply-chain danger designation is a “slender…

Everybody mentioned AI would kill apps. As a substitute, new app launches are hovering. In accordance with a brand new evaluation from market intelligence supplier Appfigures, worldwide app releases within the first quarter of 2026 have been up 60% year-over-year throughout each Apple’s App Retailer and Google Play. That share was a good larger 80% when trying on the iOS App Retailer alone. In April 2026 to date, the whole variety of app releases is up 104% throughout each shops in comparison with the identical time final yr, and up 89% on iOS. As Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide…

“There is not any blocker to your creativity anymore,” says Vermeeren, who’s now additionally investing in Schematik. “That is why I am so enthusiastic about it and constructing stuff continuously.”He’s not the one one. On Thursday, Anthropic engineer Felix Rieseberg posted on X to announce that Anthropic has now enabled “just a little Bluetooth API for makers and builders, permitting you to construct {hardware} gadgets that work together with Claude.” He additionally shared an image and a GitHub link for a tool that appears similar to Vermeeren’s Clawy, although Rieseberg and Anthropic didn’t reply to WIRED’s request for remark about…

An extended-running regulation that has allowed U.S. intelligence companies to gather and analyze large quantities of abroad communications while not having search warrants is about to run out subsequent week, and lawmakers are in a impasse over whether or not to permit the Trump administration to increase it with none modifications. Often known as Part 702 of the Overseas Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the regulation permits the Nationwide Safety Company, the CIA, the FBI and different federal intelligence companies to file abroad communications that stream via the USA while not having individualized search warrants. In sweeping up a lot of…

Planning a giant evening out at Madison Sq. Backyard? Have enjoyable—however don’t say we didn’t warn you.A WIRED investigation this week revealed new particulars concerning the non-public surveillance state instituted by MSG proprietor Jim Dolan and his head of safety, John Eversole. In response to courtroom data and WIRED sources, guests to the Backyard and another Dolan-owned venues have been subjected to face recognition, social media monitoring, in-person surveillance, and extra.The US authorities’s warrantless wiretap powers hit a roadblock this week. Regardless of a push from President Donald Trump for a long-term reauthorization of the so-called Part 702 spy program,…

Anthropic announced on Friday that it’s launching Claude Design, a brand new experimental product that lets customers create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and extra utilizing Claude. The corporate says Claude Design is meant to assist individuals like founders and product managers with out a design background share their concepts extra simply.  With Claude Design, customers describe what they need, and Claude will create an preliminary model. From there, customers can refine the visuals with direct edits or requests.  For instance, you may ask Claude to “prototype a serene cell meditation app. It ought to have calming typography, refined nature-inspired…

Chef Robotics CEO Rajat Bhageria likes to inform folks — appropriately — that his business is a veritable startup graveyard. Whether or not you’re speaking about Chowbotics, a salad-making startup that was acquired and later shut down by DoorDash, or Zume, a $400 million try to “disrupt” pizza supply that collapsed in 2023, the trouble to automate a course of that has heretofore required opposable thumbs and a sentient mind has not all the time gone so easily. Bhageria thinks he’s discovered the workaround. The premise is easy, even when the execution isn’t: use AI-powered robot arms to take the…

Individuals at all times maintain up their telephones to report particular moments at live shows, however they typically by no means revisit these movies. Gigs, a brand new concert-tracking app launching this week, needs to alter that. The iOS app helps reside music followers flip their years of live shows, tickets, and picture and video recollections into a private archive with the assistance of Apple’s on-device AI. So as to add a live performance to Gigs, customers can import a ticket, electronic mail, screenshot, or perhaps a web site hyperlink, and the app will use Apple’s Basis Fashions to extract…