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OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that developed tools for turning prompts, notes, documents and research into editable presentations. The company’s team is now working on ChatGPT. NextSlide founder Ahmed Beshry said the startup aimed to make visual communication more accessible by helping users turn ideas and source material into polished presentations. He said the […]

SpaceX has agreed to acquire Grain Management’s nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio as it seeks to turn Starlink into a major U.S. mobile carrier. The deal covers 100% of the portfolio, comprising up to 14 MHz of paired low-band spectrum, SpaceX said. The acquisition requires Federal Communications Commission approval. SpaceX said access to the spectrum […]

Apple has announced its second event of the fall for October 13, with refreshed smart home products and a long-rumored smart display expected. The event will take place at 9 a.m. ET in Tribeca, New York. Apple teased it with “Welcome home” and said in its invitation: “We look forward to welcoming you to an […]

Forza Horizon 6 will launch on PlayStation 5 on January 26, with its first expansion arriving alongside the console release, a trailer confirms. Xbox-owned developer Playground Games had initially said the PS5 version would arrive this year. The January launch puts the release a few weeks beyond that window. Playground will offer PS5 players a […]

Paramount Pictures is developing a live-action film set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077, Deadline reported. CD Projekt Red, the developer of the narrative-driven role-playing game, is attached to produce the film alongside Lorenzo di Bonaventura, according to Deadline. His producing credits include Red, Shooter, The Meg and several Transformers films directed by Michael Bay. […]

Worldwide PC shipments fell 20.1 percent from a year earlier to 62.7 million units in the third quarter of 2026, International Data Corporation reported. Shipments declined 9.1 percent from the second quarter of 2026. IDC attributed weaker demand partly to supply issues and elevated prices. “Channels are now worried about carrying too much inventory into […]

Written by Smartech Daily Team This article has been originally published on Smartech Daily and republished at Dataconomy with permission. A competitor can gain access to the same powerful AI model in an afternoon. Reproducing the operating experience that tells the model which information matters, how one condition changes the next step, or when a […]

Our homegrown file uploader was three years old, battle-tested, and quietly eating an engineer’s summer every year. I noticed because the annual planning meeting had a familiar line on it. Upload hardening, third year running, sized at two sprints. Someone newer than the rest of us asked why it kept coming back. “We spent 14 […]

For over a decade, the enterprise software playbook remained comfortably predictable. You organized internal data lakes, wrapped proprietary insights into customer-facing dashboards or API tiers, billed customers $20 per user seat per month, and declared digital transformation accomplished. That era has effectively drawn to a close. According to research from Fortune Business Insights, the global […]

Spotify launched technology.spotify.com on Thursday, formalizing its enterprise and developer tools business with a website offering technology developed internally to outside customers. The site will house open-source and paid services Spotify built to serve its 777 million monthly active users. The company said its services will be agent-ready. Spotify has not disclosed enterprise sales revenue […]

Anthropic updated its usage policy on Thursday to expressly prohibit prolonged verbal abuse of Claude, alongside new prohibitions on election interference, weapons software and surveillance. Since an update in August, Claude has been trained to end conversations involving “persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.” The new policy explicitly bars users from pursuing those conversations. “The […]