venturebeat

2026-08-11

Why AI-driven purchase intent so rarely becomes a completed sale

Presented by Rezolve AiWhen an AI assistant recommends a product or brand, it generates something valuable: a purchase-ready consumer with high intent and low friction in their decision. That consumer has already compared options, asked follow-up questions, and arrived at a conclusion. They want to buy.What they encounter next is a commerce infrastructure that was not designed for them.The gap bet [...]

thenextweb

2026-08-11

China bets on AI weather forecasting as extreme storms close in

As Typhoon Dolphin bore down on China’s coast this week, the country’s bet on artificial intelligence to read the skies looked less like a research curiosity and more like national infrastructure. Extreme weather is intensifying, the cost of getting a forecast wrong is rising, and Beijing is pouring resources into models that promise to see […]<br /> This story continues at The Next We [...]

Destination

2026-08-11

How to connect Bluetooth headphones to your PS5

The PS5 may not support Bluetooth audio directly, but there are workarounds. [...]

Destination

2026-08-11

I wore Garmin's powerful microLED Fenix watch through heatwaves, blizzards and at 4,000m altitudes— here's why it's a five-star buy

I wore Garmin's most powerful watch through extreme conditions over months — and its microLED screen is the future of smartwatches [...]

Destination

2026-08-11

Amazfit’s five-star fitness tracker just got a new way to take on Garmin’s best smartwatches, and it just got even better value

Amazfit has added several new features to its range of fitness smartwatches, including for swimming and indoor rowing workouts. [...]

Destination

2026-08-11

Moshe Sambol, VP of Customer Solutions at Lightrun – Interview Series

Moshe Sambol, VP of Customer Solutions at Lightrun - brings more than two decades of experience spanning software engineering, architecture, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing technical leadership. Before joining Lightrun in 2022, he spent nearly a decade at Google, where he held several leadership positions, including Cloud Customer Engineering Manager, helping organizations adopt and scal [...]

thenextweb

2026-08-11

River AI raised $1.1bn to let companies train and keep their own models

River AI has raised $1.1bn, roughly four months after the company was incorporated. General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the round, with strategic investment from NVIDIA and AMD Ventures, and further money from Y Combinator and Temasek. The Palo Alto company was founded by Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI. The pitch is that companies […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

Destination

2026-08-11

Trump to give Republicans a 3-1 FCC majority, isn't filling empty Democratic seat

Trump has resisted urge to fire FCC Democrat despite recent Supreme Court win. [...]

Destination

2026-08-11

Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Lightning prioritizes speed over maximum intelligence

Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open-weights model with just 3.6 billion active parameters that matches OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on the Intelligence Index despite being four times smaller. At nearly 670 tokens per second, it's also the fastest model in the comparison, showing Nvidia is betting on efficiency over raw size.<br /> The article Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron [...]