Exclusive: Choice is betting $7.1M that restaurants can run with one single AI platform
Exclusive: Choice is betting $7.1M that restaurants can run with one single AI platform

Restaurants are no longer just places where people go to enjoy a meal. They have become full businesses and ecosystems, with cooking as only one part of what they do. As our habits and the way we make choices have changed, including where we eat, resta…

Revolut launches its mobile plan in Germany for €14.99 a month
Revolut launches its mobile plan in Germany for €14.99 a month

Revolut has launched its own mobile phone plan in Germany, the company announced today. The fintech, which recently won a French banking licence, is pushing further beyond its banking app. Revolut Mobile costs €14.99 a month and includes 120GB of data …

Alibaba starts selling its Qwen N1 AI glasses in China from $450
Alibaba starts selling its Qwen N1 AI glasses in China from $450

Alibaba has started selling its new Qwen Glasses N1 smart glasses in China, at prices from 2,999 yuan ($450) before discounts, Bloomberg reported from a launch event in Hangzhou on Tuesday. Several Chinese outlets put the starting price slightly lower,…

Mozilla launches Firefox Enterprise for companies in Europ
Mozilla launches Firefox Enterprise for companies in Europ

Mozilla has launched Firefox Enterprise, a version of its browser for companies and public bodies that must meet strict security and compliance requirements. The product pairs the Firefox browser with a management console that organisations can host on…

Microsoft says Maia 300 chip will run its AI services from 2027
Microsoft says Maia 300 chip will run its AI services from 2027

Microsoft will make its own Maia chips the primary system for running AI in its products starting in 2027. The company set out the plan on Monday as it unveiled the Maia 300, the third generation of its custom AI chip. Microsoft plans deployments measu…

Microsoft and Nvidia CEOs to launch Surface Laptop Ultra on Wednesday
Microsoft and Nvidia CEOs to launch Surface Laptop Ultra on Wednesday

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang will present the Surface Laptop Ultra in San Francisco on Wednesday, the first Surface built around Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip. The laptop is designed to let AI agents run on the device rat…

Spotify expands audiobooks to more than 180 markets by the end of 2026
Spotify expands audiobooks to more than 180 markets by the end of 2026

Spotify will offer audiobooks in more than 180 markets by the end of 2026, up from 22 today, the company said at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Wednesday. The global rollout will reach more than 750 million people, who will find books next to their music a…

Europe’s Mistral launches Large 4 to challenge China’s lead in open AI models
Europe’s Mistral launches Large 4 to challenge China’s lead in open AI models

Mistral has released a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1T model that the Paris-based company says is the most powerful open-weight AI system outside China. Starting today, developers can access it via Mistral’s API. The model weights, which enable anyone…

Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils Beam, its first open-weight model
Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils Beam, its first open-weight model

Reflection AI, the Nvidia-backed startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, has unveiled Beam, its first open-weight model. Beam is built for coding, reasoning and agentic work. Reflection will release its weights later this month, the comp…

Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, and cyber defenders get it first
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, and cyber defenders get it first

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, the first new generation of its flagship AI model since Gemini 3 last November. A small group of cybersecurity defenders gets it first. Paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers are next, Google said on Wedn…