The metaverse was supposed to be its own destination. You would put on a headset, enter a virtual world, and never need to think about the platform that brought you there. That was the pitch, anyway. Decentraland, one of the earliest and most persistent experiments in decentralised virtual worlds, appears to have reached a different […]
The new service, available from today across Asia, Europe, and Latin America, lets guests pre-book airport and station transfers directly in the Airbnb app. It’s not available in the US, Canada, or Africa, yet. Airbnb has launched private car transfers in more than 125 cities across Asia, Europe, and Latin America, partnering with UK-based airport transfer […]
The standalone app, built on the AT Protocol and powered by Anthropic’s Claude, was unveiled at the ATmosphere conference by Jay Graber, who stepped back from Bluesky’s CEO role specifically to build it. It’s currently invite-only, with a waitlist open. Bluesky’s best-known differentiator from X and Threads has always been its custom feed system, the […]
Xero, the New Zealand-founded accounting platform used by 4.6 million subscribers worldwide, announced on Wednesday a multi-year partnership with Anthropic that will embed Claude directly into its product and, more unusually, bring Xero’s financial data into Claude.ai itself. The deal means small business owners will be able to ask Claude questions about their cash flow, […]
A startup called Friending has launched a social platform built around a premise that sounds almost quaint in 2026: helping people make friends by meeting in person. The app, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, connects users by shared interests and geographic proximity, then deliberately limits chat functionality to push them toward face-to-face meetings rather than […]
The AIM-listed language technology company says its new model, the largest dedicated translation model in production, ranked first in 31 of 32 languages in internal benchmarking against DeepL and Gemini. The model is natively integrated into the Trados portfolio. The problem RWS is describing is a real one in enterprise translation: the tools that move […]
The startup, spun out of nonprofit Accumulus Synergy last August, has built a network connecting pharmaceutical and biotech companies to regulators across more than 70 countries. The new Connector makes that network accessible without leaving the systems companies already use. Getting a drug approved in multiple countries simultaneously requires filing the same information with dozens […]
The Israeli video personalisation company is launching Strata, a foundation model it says produces separate, editable layers for text, animation, footage, and actors rather than a single flat file. It’s a direct challenge to the architectural limits of diffusion-based video generators. Every AI video model currently on the market produces the same thing: a flat […]
Automattic has added write capabilities to WordPress.com’s MCP integration, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT the ability to create posts, build pages, manage comments, and restructure content, all through natural conversation, with human approval at every step. For most of the past six months, connecting an AI agent to your WordPress.com site has meant […]
The AI search company launches a suite of health data connectors, linking Apple Health, wearables, and electronic health records, making it the second major AI platform to integrate with Apple Health after OpenAI. Consumer health AI has become the year’s fastest-moving product category, and on Thursday Perplexity entered the race properly. The company launched Perplexity […]
