Spotify expands from soundtrack to sweat session: Peloton partnership puts 1,400 classes inside the app
Spotify expands from soundtrack to sweat session: Peloton partnership puts 1,400 classes inside the app

Available from today in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Austria, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, and Spain.Peloton bike workouts are not included, the classes cover strength, cardio, yoga, meditation, pilates, and outdoor runs, requiring no specialist equipmen…

DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year after its ‘Sputnik moment’
DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year after its ‘Sputnik moment’

The Hangzhou startup released preview versions of both models on Hugging Face on Friday. V4-Pro claims top performance on coding and maths among open models, trails only Gemini 3.1-Pro for world knowledge, and falls “marginally short” of GPT-5.4 and Ge…

OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, its first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, its first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5

The model, codenamed “Spud,” is designed to complete complex multi-step tasks with minimal human direction. It sets new benchmarks in agentic coding, computer use, and knowledge work, while matching GPT-5.4’s per-token latency. API access is delayed pe…

OpenAI’s new image model reasons before it draws
OpenAI’s new image model reasons before it draws

The new model reasons about composition, searches the web for context, generates up to eight coherent images from one prompt, and renders text in non-Latin scripts with near-flawless accuracy. It also took the number one spot on the Image Arena leaderb…

Samsung and IKEA just made the $6 smart home real, and your TV is already the hub
Samsung and IKEA just made the $6 smart home real, and your TV is already the hub

In short: Samsung SmartThings and IKEA announced that 25 new IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices can now connect directly to a SmartThings hub without requiring IKEA’s own DIRIGERA hub, with smart bulbs starting at $5.99 that undercut competitors by half. …

OpenAI recruits Cognizant and CGI to take Codex into enterprise software shops worldwide
OpenAI recruits Cognizant and CGI to take Codex into enterprise software shops worldwide

OpenAI is building a systems integrator channel for Codex, enlisting large consulting firms to carry the coding agent into organisations it cannot reach through direct sales. Cognizant and CGI are the first named SI partners in the programme, announced…

OpenAI’s Codex for Mac now watches your screen to build context, but sends the screenshots to its servers first
OpenAI’s Codex for Mac now watches your screen to build context, but sends the screenshots to its servers first

Summary: OpenAI’s Codex for Mac has added Chronicle, a research preview feature that periodically captures screenshots, sends them to OpenAI’s servers for processing, and stores text summaries as local unencrypted Markdown files to give the AI assistan…

Semrush launches a framework for measuring brand visibility in AI search as the old SEO playbook breaks down
Semrush launches a framework for measuring brand visibility in AI search as the old SEO playbook breaks down

Summary: Semrush launched a Brand Visibility Framework at Adobe Summit introducing “Agentic Search Optimisation” as a new discipline for measuring brand presence across AI-generated answers, traditional search, and autonomous AI agents, drawing on 213 …

Europe is pouring tens of billions of public money into VC. The hard part is making it work
Europe is pouring tens of billions of public money into VC. The hard part is making it work

The European Investment Fund is raising a €15 billion fund of funds called ETCI 2 that aims to unlock up to €80 billion in scaleup funding across Europe. Germany’s WIN initiative is targeting €12 billion by 2030. France’s Tibi programme has pledged €7 …

Zoom partners with Sam Altman’s World to verify that meeting participants are actually human
Zoom partners with Sam Altman’s World to verify that meeting participants are actually human

Summary: Zoom has partnered with World, Sam Altman’s biometric identity company, to let meeting participants verify they are human using World’s Deep Face technology, which cross-references iris-scanned biometric profiles with live video to display a “…