Starting in 2026, the Australian government will require utilities to provide customers with three hours of free electricity daily, a policy made possible by the country's unprecedented solar power surplus. According to the latest data from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, solar installations now generate more electricity than

Tinder is testing a new AI-driven feature that analyzes users' Camera Roll photos to learn about their personalities and preferences. This development, revealed in November 2025, aims to automate and deepen Tinder's understanding of users by leveraging personal images beyond standard profile inputs. While specific rollout dates

Most businesses invest heavily in backup recovery systems to protect data, but a critical majority fail to regularly test those systems. This gap was highlighted in a recent industry analysis on November 5, 2025, which exposes a dangerous operational blind spot that can make the difference between business continuity and

Entrepreneurs often chase growth without realizing their startup operates in a misaligned ecosystem. The concept of the relevance map recently gained attention as a tool to diagnose and correct this misalignment by matching ventures with the economy best suited to their assets and customer base. This approach identifies the actual

Wabi, the startup founded by the creator of Replika, has raised a $20 million pre-seed round to launch what it calls the "YouTube for apps." Announced in November 2025, Wabi enables users to build and share mini apps instantly through prompts on a social platform, democratizing app creation

Microsoft recently developed a forced economic simulation environment—a fake digital marketplace—to rigorously test the behavior and robustness of state-of-the-art AI agents. Conducted in 2025, this internal experiment exposed surprising failure modes in these agents when operating in dynamic, multi-agent settings, challenging assumptions about their autonomy and scalability. The

In a self-experiment conducted over one week, an individual audited their time usage to distinguish between mere busyness and real progress. The exercise surfaced a common trap: equating hours logged to productivity. Instead, the audit revealed that genuine progress hinges on focus, discipline, and intentionality — mechanisms that operate beneath the

On Friday, the University of Pennsylvania confirmed a significant data breach after hackers sent boasting messages directly to its community. The precise scale of the stolen data and details about the attack vector remain undisclosed, but the breach included unauthorized access to sensitive university data, affecting faculty, students, and staff.

Alloy Enterprises has introduced a new additive manufacturing technique for creating metal stacks that dramatically enhance liquid cooling in AI data centers as of late 2025. This approach extends liquid cooling beyond traditional locations, embedding it deeper into server racks where AI training hardware faces critical heat dissipation challenges. The

Hyundai's North American CEO, Randy Parker, is steering the global auto brand through a complex mix of soaring tariffs, geopolitical tensions, and a drastically reshaped workforce as of late 2025. Navigating these pressures means contending with unpredictable tariffs imposed over the past 18 months that have increased input

Google announced it has received US government approval to acquire cloud security company Wiz, completing a deal first revealed in March 2025 and expected to close in early 2026. The acquisition price is set at $32 billion, marking one of the largest cloud security deals to date. Wiz specializes in

On November 4, 2025, Epic Games publicly praised the recently announced settlement between Google and a coalition of app developers, which requires the company to reform its Android app store policies. The agreement compels Google to lower fees and open up its Google Play Store to more competitive alternatives. Epic

SoftBank and OpenAI have formed a new joint venture in Japan that will localize and distribute OpenAI's enterprise-level artificial intelligence technologies specifically for Japanese companies. Launched in late 2025, this partnership's first paying customer is SoftBank itself, leveraging the venture’s own products internally before extending

Google Maps announced in November 2025 it is integrating Gemini, Google's next-generation AI model, directly into its navigation app. This integration enables drivers to ask contextual questions, adjust routes hands-free, and access real-time app features while driving without manual input. The update targets the 200 million monthly active

Microsoft launched a lifetime purchase option for Microsoft Office with AI-powered features at a one-time price of $130 in late 2025. This package covers core productivity apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook integrated with new AI tools for content generation, data insights, and automation. Unlike the standard Microsoft 365

Armis, the enterprise security company specializing in asset and device protection, has raised a $435 million pre-IPO funding round at a $6.1 billion valuation. The deal was announced publicly in November 2025, with the company’s co-founder and CEO Yevgeny Dibrov stating they aim to launch an initial public

Jean Baptiste Su recently argued that tomorrow's most valuable startups will win by out-learning, not outspending. The core move is creating AI-first teams—groups structured around rapid AI integration that enable exponential growth. While numerous startups adopt AI tools, this new breed designs their teams explicitly to harness

Sandbar, a startup founded by two former Meta employees specializing in interface design, launched a new ring-shaped hardware device in late 2025 aimed at capturing voice notes and controlling music playback seamlessly. This entry joins an increasingly crowded market of voice-first hardware including card-shaped devices like Plaud and Pocket, pendant

MoEngage, a customer engagement platform serving clients across 75 countries, secured a new round of funding led by Goldman Sachs in late 2025, doubling down on its global expansion ambitions. North America currently represents MoEngage’s largest market segment. While the exact investment amount was undisclosed, this infusion aims squarely

Qualcomm Ventures recently joined six prominent Indian venture capital firms, collectively committing over $850 million to boost India's deep tech startup ecosystem. This alliance, announced in late 2025, also includes strategic participation from NVIDIA, marking a rare cross-border direct investment into India’s cutting-edge technology startups. The funding

On November 2025, former President Donald Trump reversed an earlier decision and re-nominated Jared Isaacman to lead NASA. This about-face followed intense public pressure, notably from tech magnate Elon Musk, who criticized Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s fitness for the role. Details on the terms of the nomination or confirmation

Amazon has issued legal threats against Perplexity AI for operating browsing agents on its e-commerce platform that fail to explicitly identify themselves as automated agents. This crackdown, reported in early November 2025, follows Perplexity’s deployment of agentic browsing technologies that autonomously navigate Amazon’s website to extract and summarize

People Inc. announced an AI licensing deal with Microsoft in November 2025, granting Microsoft rights to integrate People Inc.'s media content into its Copilot AI assistant. This move coincides with a notable decline in traffic from Google, underscoring a shift in AI content sourcing. The terms of the

Beta Technologies, an electric aviation company focused on vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, entered the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on November 4, 2025, closing its first trading day in positive territory. Alongside this successful IPO debut, Beta Technologies raised $1 billion in fresh capital. While the company’s